I am going to try the cotton patches, but my inventory of arsenal patches exceeds 10,000. If the cotton ones are better, I may have a SALE on the other ones, !

Jim

10,000 arsenal patches is about half of one case and you already have them. No additional cost to you.

The PROSHOT cotton flannel end up costing about $18.00 for a 750 bag by the time you get them to the range.

The thing I notice most is no matter how much wiping fluid you put on the cotton flannel patch a lot of it winds up in the chamber and therefore the receiver of the rifle and never makes it to the muzzle.

It is the conditions I shoot under each day that determines which type I use. In either case, the purpose is to mitigate as much as possible the build up of hard fouling, not clean the barrel between shots so the wiping solution is just as important and also can vary here due to conditions.

Even blow tubing can work just fine if there is sufficient humidity and absence of high heat build up inside the bore. However, I load with the bullet seated into the rifling and blow tubing will not work for that technique.

With that said, the reason I am trying out the BACO bore wipes is that they seem to work just fine regardless of the conditions and that would make hard fouling control easier and more uniform in competition. So far so good.

Jim the 2 1/2 in patches work best for me in the 44 and 45 caliber rifles. Also when shooting grease groove pushing the patch thru on the front of a nylon brush.

And virtually tons of fragmented rocks can attest to that.

(08-08-2017, 01:02 PM)desert deuce Wrote: And virtually tons of fragmented rocks can attest to that.

No that rock was not fractured and remember it went cleanly thru the 9 ring...
I should get a picture of that rock and post it.

A raged hole in the target in the 9, 10 or X ring generated by something other than a bullet, is scored as a .....?

Jim

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All of my delrin wiping rods are threaded at the tip 8-32 and yes the nylon brush threads into the tip of the wiping rod. You will have to develop a technique to twist-flip the patch off of the brush when it exits the muzzle but with a little practice that is not a problem.

(08-09-2017, 11:12 AM)desert deuce Wrote: All of my delrin wiping rods are threaded at the tip 8-32 and yes the nylon brush threads into the tip of the wiping rod. You will have to develop a technique to twist-flip the patch off of the brush when it exits the muzzle but with a little practice that is not a problem.

Interesting that you mention that about flipping the patch off of the brush at the muzzle. Last time I shot in Eron's match in Colorado, a particularly talented fellow from Wyoming noticed that my patches weren't coming off at the muzzle. He said that he could see that I wasn't using a Tipton brush :-).

Chris.

Guys I got some M-Pro 7 to try for wiping, does anyone know if you dilute it or use it full strength? I use the BACO bore wipes for PP ,but get leading with greasers.