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Best method for cleaning bolt lug recess area of action?

What lug recess action cleaning tool to you recommend?

  • Sinclair Int'l ACT

    Votes: 13 32.5%
  • Bore Tech ACT

    Votes: 8 20.0%
  • PMA Tool ACT

    Votes: 7 17.5%
  • Pro-Shot ACT

    Votes: 3 7.5%
  • Dewey ACT

    Votes: 3 7.5%
  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 6 15.0%

  • Total voters
    40
For properly cleaning the lug recess area of a bolt-action receiver, what do you use? (Tools, chemicals, method.) What works best, in your experience, for elimination of build-up, gummy residues, problems with crud impacting the bolt lugs/lock-up?

Got any specific ones you'd suggest avoiding like the plague?

This would be for the occasional rifle shooter who doesn't remove the barrel during the life of the gun (until having a gunsmith re-barrel it), so effective cleaning without fully stripping the gun is needed. Troublesome spot to get to, for keeping it clean.

There are a few tools on the market -- such as the ones from Sinclair Int'l, BoreTech, PMA Tool, Pro-Shot, and Dewey.
 
Some cheap tool like this:
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Then get a package of q-tips - the kind with the hollow plastic center section, cut the cotton parts off the end, stick them on your pick, and you can clean your lugs easily. Works well for AR15's that are notoriously difficult to clean.
 
Some cheap tool like this:
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Then get a package of q-tips - the kind with the hollow plastic center section, cut the cotton parts off the end, stick them on your pick, and you can clean your lugs easily. Works well for AR15's that are notoriously difficult to clean.

Ah. Plastic-tubed q-tips. (Local wally-mart has them.) Have been using a pick like the one above, but haven't yet tried the q-tip method.
 
With the "pick" method - probably worth snipping off the pointy bit so it doesn't poke through the end of your q-tip.
 
These are cheap (I use them for epoxy bedding)- safer than metal picks for areas you don't want to risk scratching the steel ...

I've got a couple sets of the Tipton composite/plastic picks. Definitely safer, when rooting around with the pick end.
 
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Then get a package of q-tips - the kind with the hollow plastic center section, cut the cotton parts off the end, stick them on your pick, and you can clean your lugs easily. Works well for AR15's that are notoriously difficult to clean.
I do a similar in using normal Q-tips and a set of hemostats. I cut the shaft of the Q-Tip to give me the length I need, and then clamp it in the hemostats at the angle I need to address the area needing cleaning.
 

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