Cleaning your BP Revoler the easy way

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For getting inside the barrel where rammer is, along with the wedge key, the swauber easily gets inside there snugly and gets it fully clean. I wish had I found these years ago when I had my first .44cal BP Revolver.

They also work excellent in my brothers 1851 Navy .36cal revolver. Nice and snug, they catch all the fouling and swab it away.

If you use products like bore butter or frog lube, heat the metal up, apply a small amount to a fresh clean swauber and lube all the parts properly.

To get your moneys worth, wash the main cleaner swauber with hot soapy water, hang dry it and with a magic marker, use sandwitch bags and label each swauber so you don't waste them on just one cleaning!

I wish they made them long enough to reach completely through my 1860's 8" barrel!

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Tie a string on the wire loop and pull it all the way through, like a bore snake.

That is if the wire loop can be squished down enough. Or trimmed into a little hook.
 
I have been using plain old cotton balls on a jag for many years. They seem to work as well as anything else and are a lot cheaper. Buy them on sale at the drugstore.

Kevin
 
Assuming, because you use ballistol the swabs can be washed dried and use again a time or two. Being round they may work better than the "mops" one uses on threaded rods. I wash and dry the mops between uses but due to their
shape don't get into the bottom of the chambers.

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Duh: There I go again skimming the thread. Yes you do wash and dry. I will have to try those.
 
Pipe cleaners combined with old t shirts ripped up into smaller patches. But these look interesting as long as they can be cleaned and reused over and over again.
 
Just how firm a ball is the blob on the end? I'm curious to know how much scrubbing power it is able to apply to the walls of the chambers.

Also how is the front end? Is it folded over so it cleans as well on the front against the blind end as it does the side walls?
 
These look just like the daubers I use when dying leather. I would bet you can buy those for less money than the birchwood caseys.

They are fairly firm.
 
these are nice and firm and create a good deal of drag when scrubbing. The front is round and mushy like the sides. Think of a round cotton ball, only a lot more firmly and able to contour to shapes and then pop back into shape.
 
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