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General Categories => General Firearm Discussion => Topic started by: thirtydaZe on February 18, 2014, 09:17:59 AM

Title: Gun Cleaning Picks
Post by: thirtydaZe on February 18, 2014, 09:17:59 AM: which do you prefer, polymer, or stainless?
Title: Re: Gun Cleaning Picks
Post by: Husker_Fan on February 19, 2014, 08:27:03 PM: brass
Title: Re: Gun Cleaning Picks
Post by: thirtydaZe on February 20, 2014, 10:27:10 AM: i guess that would make sense.

i had purchased some brushes at scheels, which also came with these picks.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31uhYbLS6hL.jpg)
polymer
http://www.amazon.com/Tipton-Polymer-Gun-Cleaning-Picks/dp/B0048KGFHU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392913375&sr=8-2&keywords=gun+cleaning+picks (http://www.amazon.com/Tipton-Polymer-Gun-Cleaning-Picks/dp/B0048KGFHU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392913375&sr=8-2&keywords=gun+cleaning+picks)

then did some searching around and these popped up.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31DYJh0n6uL._SX300_.jpg)
stainless
http://www.amazon.com/Tipton-324770-Wheeler-Stainless-Steel/dp/B008NABK4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392913375&sr=8-1&keywords=gun+cleaning+picks (http://www.amazon.com/Tipton-324770-Wheeler-Stainless-Steel/dp/B008NABK4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392913375&sr=8-1&keywords=gun+cleaning+picks)

what it boils down to, is the stainless are dental picks.

after doing a bit more paying attention, they popped up on amazon when searching for "gun cleaning," but were only labeled as wheeler stainless picks.
Title: Re: Gun Cleaning Picks
Post by: UPCrawfish on February 20, 2014, 10:48:36 AM: Any tool that has a hardness equal or greater than the material you are using it on can and will scratch the surface of the item being cleaned. Brass, bronze or polymer for cleaning picks.

That said, I do have a couple of steel picks with hook ends that are sometimes used to 'assist' a spent cartridge from the chamber.
Title: Re: Gun Cleaning Picks
Post by: bkent on February 20, 2014, 12:14:56 PM: I'd never heard of "gun cleaning picks" until this thread. What do you all use them for? Or maybe better put, how do you use them?
Kent