Additional cleaning add-ons

[flanman]

Any thoughts on the use and difference: brass muzzle guard, coated muzzle guide also is the action guard for bolt action only or would one use it for lever action rifles as well?

flanman

[dfariswheel]

There are brass cone-shaped muzzle guides, and plastic cones.
I find the brass are thinner on the front and fit slightly into the muzzle better than plastic, so I use brass.

There are special muzzle guides made for specific firearms that usually fit over the outside of the barrel and are even better. These also stay on the muzzle without having to be held in place with one hand as the rod is pulled out.

Chamber guides both guide the rod into the bore and keep solvent on the rod out of the action.
Since most all lever rifles have to be disassembled to get into the chamber from the rear, I don't think anyone makes a lever rifle chamber guide.
Those you usually clean from the muzzle, in which case a chamber guide is useless.

[Bisley]

Hello, flanman. By your mention of muzzle guard..I am thinking revolver? A simple one can be made by using a tubing cutter on a bottleneck rifle case..that just fits into muzzle...makes a handy little funnel too!
Just a "heads up" if your cleaning a revolver..first time I cleaned my .32 WCF cylinder with my nice coated Dewey rod..coating was peeled by those sharp edged chambers.
Dewey makes a solid non-rotating plastic handled brass rod thats about 12" long..This is what I now use for cyl. cleaning.

[flanman]

Thank you both for your help

flaman