patchworm

[jlh26oo]

Where has someone successfully purchased one of these online?

I have found a couple of sites. They are cheap enough, but the $5 price of the worm is not all I am afraid of losing by putting my CC info through such a cheap looking site. I wished larger retailers carried them.

I guess I could make one. Maybe melt the end of some heavy fishing line into enough of a knob to catch a patch? Weed eater string would be too fat for a .22 I think. Any other ideas?


http://www.silverstreaksports.com/PatchWorm.htm
http://20-20.8m.com/patchworm.html

[c_yeager]

I guess I could make one. Maybe melt the end of some heavy fishing line into enough of a knob to catch a patch? Weed eater string would be too fat for a .22 I think. Any other ideas?


http://www.silverstreaksports.com/PatchWorm.htm
http://20-20.8m.com/patchworm.html

Actually weed-eater line is the perfect size for .22 You just need to melt it into a little nub on one end, and sharpen the other end. Stab it through a patch and your good to go, you want a relatively tight seal with the bore, nothing thats hard to pull but you want the patch to contact it throught its trip.

[chuckles]

For a slightly different approach to the same idea, look at the Otis kits. www.otisgun.com

[45R]

I own both the Otis kit and the patchworm. Truth be told the Patchworm is a waste of money if your going to use it to clean the bore of a .22LR. After reading for hour and hours on end on how to keep a .22 accurate most competition shooters do not bother to clean the barrels on a .22LR pistol or rifle. Some may argue with this fact but I have not cleaned my .22LR barrels in over a year.

However the kit is very handy for cleaning pistols of other calibers. Its small and convient to just drop into your rangebag. The Otis kit is a little bigger and works just as well as the patchworm with the addition of brushes. Both kits are worth the money.

[CraigJS]

Right here: http://patchworm.com/
I,ve bought from this company 3 or 4 times using a CC and have NEVER had any problems. They are a sponsor of a rimfire group that I'm a member of at: http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/index.php?
Good people to deal with...
CraigJS

[jlh26oo]

@Craig- I noticed they were the same company as the 20-20 site I linked. I get a little paranoid about online CC transactions with small companies. Not that they would rip me, but the level of transaction security they can afford. Good to know they are recommended.

@45R- I've heard of the never cleaning your .22 theory too, I just wouldn't be able to stand it. So you've gone a year so far- is this indefinite? You will NEVER clean it again?

@Chuckles- those Otis kits are very nice indeed. A little more than I want to spend, but you get alot, and those cases are smooth.

@Yeagermeister. Good call. Went with 80 weed eater string, less than $2 at walmart. Pressed an end into the side of a heated knife, and it rolled out into a nice flat knob about twice the diameter of the line. It was stiff enough to cut the other end into a pretty sharp patch penetrator. It works great! I might go back and pick up some thicker string for centerfires.

Patchworms are sweet.


THanks ALL!

[Canuck-IL]

Most BE shooters of my acquaintance clean the ramp and chamber on 22s for reliable feed and extraction but never do more than drag a dry patch through the barrel - maybe once every 500 or 1000.
/B

[Jim Keenan]

Keenan's law, a subsection of Murphy's law:

If a bore cleaning gadget can possibly break and leave a patch stuck in the barrel, it will.

Jim

[CraigJS]

Perhaps you could send them off a check?
As for the Patch worms breaking, I've pulled one through with two of the felt cleaning buttons on, also one button and one patch on. They both pulled so hard that I had to wrap my hand with the remaining line and I thought for sure I'd really screwed things up BIG time.. Both times no broken line , or stuck in the barrel patches etc. Hand hurt like h*** when it finally came out though! I use them all the time on a 1200.00 Benelli target .22 that I shoot. You can take or leave what I just wrote, but I own 3 of them, two .22 and one .17 for my Beeman air pistol. I've used over 150 of the felt buttons. When I really want things clean though I still use a carbon fiber rod with a wet brush and cotton patches.. ( old habbits die hard:D )
Good Luck, shoot straight, CraigJS

[sm]

Keenan's law, a subsection of Murphy's law:

If a bore cleaning gadget can possibly break and leave a patch stuck in the barrel, it will.

Jim

+1

:D :D