I bought a bag of Hoppe's patches the other day (caliber specific) that are made of some kind of thin, fibrous material that fit very loosely in my barrel when pushed through on a spear jag. I usually use much thicker, cotton patches, which require much harder pressure on the same jag to push through the barrel.

Is this a problem?

Those Hoppes patches don't seem to work to good for me........ I prefer cotton myself.


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Double or triple up on them, long as they'll push through. Cotton is better...

Cotton. Forget the cheap, synthetic sh!t!

Go with Cotton; support your local Georgia Cotton farmer!

Old t-shirts work well too

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dulltool17:
Go with Cotton; support your local Georgia Cotton farmer!/QUOTE]

Hell no! They plant a crop that creates a man-made desert for wildlife where I hunt. Used to be soybeans adjacent to our lease, but when cotton prices went up, out went the soybeans and in went the cotton!

I hate that crap.

I use spear point jags made by Pro-Shot and they are just right to use with the medium weight synthetic patches. With the thin patches I just use 2 with the corners offset 45 degrees.

I never use cotton because it sheds threads that might be left in the bore. I do like cotton to wipe off the out side of the metal.

I use a variety of patches.

The most common is the Indian cotton with red stripes. These are great for saturating with solvent etc but are not good for multi stroke scrubbing as the weave is loose.

I also use thick cotton squares cut from the old fashioned cotton cloth baby nappies or similar cloth. These are thick and are great fro scrubbing the bore as they give a tight fit and you can see the rifle marks on the patch.

Finally there is the Napier product which you can buy in a roll or patches. This is thin but it has a tight weave & is great for scrubbing the bore. Before the wonder solvents came around, I used these patches most as they were great for removing copper fouling with multiple strokes as it heated the metal and the copper slivers cam free on the cloth.

Cotton flannel like the kind Sinclair INTl or Pro-Shot makes or sells.You should have plenty of experience cleaning rifles-an art by itself,and know which patch size to use with which bore size and rod attachment.

Big fan of Sinclair's patches.

I tried Southern Bloomer patches - they worked well but the caliber on the patches did not seem to work with actual bores, so had to trim then down or use different sizes. I mostly use Pro-Shot or Butch's now.

I do wish I still had my old supply of military cotton 2" square cleaning patches, but they done ran out.

I've used the Hoppes super thin patches...ok when I'm cleaning a .22 cal bore, but that's about it.

I've a habit of coming home with cloth remanant pieces from some place that sells fabric. Flannel works well and thin felt do quite well too for cleaning patches. Pain in the rear, but I can cut them to various sizes more suitable for my bore cleaning.

I second the old T-shirt usage.
I tried using my old, worn out boxer shorts but the patches always came out brown! No idea what that might have been

Tipton´s cotton is HARD.

Sinclair, Pro Shot seem to be the best.

I have patches of all sizes on hand ... up to 1 3/4" sq. Never felt the need for bigger patches.

( I use Otis for shotguns )

Hermann

Cotton has always worked for me. No reason to change. Patches or t-shirts.

Cotton and flanal works for me, I use old flanal shirts a lot..Get my patches from Brownell, 2 inch cotton and keep a pair of sissors handy for small bores! Beats have 3 or 4 different size patches around..

I actually use the Bore Snakes more than anything else, one pass equals 180 patch passes, and cleaning rods have ruined more bores than bullets have.

Same for me, I cut large patches (.45 size) from old flannel bedsheets and cut them smaller when needed. BTW, I still favour one piece steel cleaning rods (PH, Dewey,...) but always use bore guides when rifle cleaning (I have large and small Stoney Point guides + accessory sleeves in different sizes.

I dont know if all'yall men know of this but cutton is substituted for nappies amongst many things nowadays?

It is an inferiour meterial in many ways vs. synthetical materials.

But then again i'm not on facespace or the likes so who am i to preach

Personally i use synthetic dischcloth for patches.
Easy to cut or punch and highly absorbant. And cheap did i mention cheap?
https://www.espocatalogue.org/...6830.CL-6900.CL-6910

I dont wear out t-shirts fast enough to keep up with my demand for patches.

I like BRASS!

Brass Dewey rods ... Dewey quality, no adapters, already 8 - 32 UNC.

Hermann

Problem with brass is many of todays cleaning components that contain ammonia or similar cleaner eat the rod up and you never know when all the copper is out of a bore because the brass rod turns the patch black or blue..

Also the brass and aluminum rods tend to pick up metal particales and those particles are abrasive, Stainless steel does not pick up this stuff and is not effected by chemicals, just my two bits but to each his own..

I still prefer the bore snake to any other cleaning solution..Run it through the bore every 20 or so rounds and start shooting. Really handy when shooting P dogs or Rock Chuckes where shooting gets hot and heavy..I clean with rod and copper remover once or twice a year these days but only if I'm storing the gun for a period of time.