Bore guide options

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Greetings fellas,
Curious what everyone is using for bore guides these days aside from the universal guides or the custom ones from Mike Lucas.
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I'd like to. Too many calibers and different size cleaning rods.
 
Don’t know if you guys had any luck. I have quite a number from possum hollow products. Guy seems friendly as heck, and quality very good, he can just be a little sketchy in responding. I think he used to make midway’s “house” bore guides. He builds them by rifle manufacturer/model and then by a cartridge/caliber range in the model.

They are fairly specific, and I have a lot of them, but they are very good.
 
You can use and old case by drilling the primer hole slightly larger as the rod diameter.
 
I have never used a bore guide.
 
Always seemed like a gadget and I've been able to go nice and slow to prevent damaging the origins of the rifling. No reason to be in a hurry cleaning firearms when I enjoy the smell of Hoppe's No 9 so much.

I'm sure there are benefits but I'm not likely to see any degradation in accuracy from my hunting rifles by using something like this. Maybe for a benchrest shooter would see some ROI?
 
Used a Stoney Point bore guide, I think, in my PD 22 cal rifles. When I was cleaning a rifle 4/5 times a day I thought it was a good idea. Never bothered to use a BG on any caliber larger the 25. Worked for me.
 
I have never used a bore guide. How is an aluminum cleaning rod gently rubbing against rifling supposed to damage a crown if a copper bullet jammed through it under extreme pressure doesn't? I now use a bore snake with a strip of rag soaked in solvent through the finger loop end. I pull the tightly compacted rag through from chamber by stepping on the cord and raising the rifle. Bore snake is more compact and doesn't get bent.
 
I’m a bore snake guy also. Small, compact, take anywhere cleaning tool. Never even heard of a bore guide for a cleaning rod.
 
For me, it is just kind of the advantage of neatness and keeping solvent out of the action and off the stock, but maybe I am inefficient in my method.

I haven’t tried a bore snake because I have what I have, but I can see where that would be a more efficient method.
 
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The bore snake, made by Hoppe’s has a brass weight to drop down the barrel. Inside the red circle is a built in brass brush of the caliber of snake. Roll it up in a small tin with a couple patches and a little bottle of oil, great for the back pack, or fly in camps.
 
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The bore snake, made by Hoppe’s has a brass weight to drop down the barrel. Inside the red circle is a built in brass brush of the caliber of snake. Roll it up in a small tin with a couple patches and a little bottle of oil, great for the back pack, or fly in camps.
I have one of these. They are Chinese knockoffs of original "Bore Snake." The only difference being the original has a handle that can be screwed onto the threaded brass weight. Also have one of those because I forgot my knockoff at home one fall hunting in Montana. I never use the handle. Just easier to step on the cord and pull it through rather than fiddle with screwing on the handle.
 
I have one of these. They are Chinese knockoffs of original "Bore Snake." The only difference being the original has a handle that can be screwed onto the threaded brass weight. Also have one of those because I forgot my knockoff at home one fall hunting in Montana. I never use the handle. Just easier to step on the cord and pull it through rather than fiddle with screwing on the handle.
I just grabbed a picture off the net for demo purposes. The Hoppe’s viper, I have, looks exactly like pictured. I’m not home to look at mine but I do recall all of mine have a threaded hole in the brass wieght.
 

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