Cleaning chamber and throat???

[chadster73]

Anyone have any good ideas of how to clean the chamber/throat area of one's rifle? Specifically... using standard setup like cleaning the barrel, i.e. jags, solvents, patches and mops and such? Thanks!

 

[artbosco]

Anyone have any good ideas of how to clean the chamber/throat area of one's rifle?

I go to the end of the neck/freebore junction with a nylon brush tip coated with JB Paste to get the carbon buildup out first, spinning it about 30 times. The nylon brush is on a short rod about 12 inches long, made just for the purpose of cleaning the chamber.

Then I put a patch over a bore mop and coat it with either lighter fluid or Butch's Bore Shine. Once the chamber is clean, I insert a rod guide and proceed to clean the barrel.

Once the barrel is done and the rod guide removed, I run another patch with lighter fluid [draped over a bore mop] into the chamber to clean any residual solvent that may have backed up into it.