Ummmm ... I can easily use up a couple dozen patches field-cleaning a rifle, and a whole lot more if it's an old milsurp I just bought that I'm refurbing. Maybe I am anal, but I don't think that particular personality trait enters into it .... however, I most certainly am lazy, not to mention I have other things to do, and cutting my own patches from scratch would take a whole lot longer than "a few minutes."...Unless youre overly anal, it literally only takes a few minutes.
LOL. The way some people talk, youd think cutting patches was a hard days work.
Unless youre overly anal, it literally only takes a few minutes.
What? The "where" is still a secret?
And if they really were a penny apiece, they would be $5 for 500, or $10 for 1000.
The Hoppe's patches ARE hard to find. The two local sources I have for them don't do a very good job of keeping them in stock. Maybe because I'm the guy that strips every last pack off the peg, leaving just one hanging. I'm kind of pissed at Scheel's because they used to stock them but don't anymore.What? The "where" is still a secret?
Back in the early 2000's, a friend of mine worked in a local, high volume gun shop. Hoppes used to use the leftover cotton from the patch runs as shipping packing material. Just basically tons of sheets of cotton with squares of various sizes punched out of it jammed into the boxes. Not a whole lot of big pieces, and most of what there was, was irregular, but there was a lot of it and if you were willing to cut out what you could salvage, it was free, as the shop considered it trash. My buddy brought home bags of it and gave me as much as I wanted. I didnt have to buy patches for a number of years.The Hoppe's patches ARE hard to find. The two local sources I have for them don't do a very good job of keeping them in stock. Maybe because I'm the guy that strips every last pack off the peg, leaving just one hanging. I'm kind of pissed at Scheel's because they used to stock them but don't anymore.
LOL. The way some people talk, youd think cutting patches was a hard days work.
Unless youre overly anal, it literally only takes a few minutes.
I don’t buy patches. Old, cotton t-shirts work great. Sharp scissors, and I cut them various sizes for different calibers