Review for Hoppe's 9 Rifle Cleaning Boresnake - 28 ga. Shotgun

Author: Devildog85 {!} , USMC, from Paradise, CA on Feb 20, 2012
Pros:  Easy to use, cuts cleaning time way down
Cons:  Not the best instructions (for someone that may be a novice)
Would recommend:  yes

Devildog85 wrote:

The Hoppe's boresnake is an excellent product that I became familiar with during my time in the Marines. It helps you cut the time of cleaning your weapon way down, you can clean the bore of your rifle in about 30 seconds if you take your time with this product. One pass of the boresnake was usually enough to clean the bore of my rifle "good enough for now" but at home with my AR-15 I like to take my time and make multiple passes with the boresnake just to make sure it's beautiful and this product definitely makes the bore beautiful. The one downside to this product that I can see is that if you are a novice and don't know much about cleaning guns, the instructions for this particular product don't help much because they don't tell you to put solvent here or there or oil or anything like that. The way I do it is to spray a little solvent down the barrel (always clean from breach to muzzle) and then pull the boresnake through it a couple times and then spray a little oil down the barrel and then pull the boresnake through it one time. Others may have there own preferred way of doing it, and I might be doing it wrong, but it worked in the Corps so it's good enough for me at home.