Thread: Jag or Slotted tips?

Jags are just easier really.

If you really want to maximize surface area then go for a Parker Hale style jag.

Interesting comments here. Some many (far too many) years ago my "instructor" aka grumpy old fart who got me into culling, told me - if it is shooting straight then don't f*** with it unless you have been a d******h and dropped it in the mud. I purchased a Parker Hale in 7 x 57 at the time (a rifle I still have and one of the 30 odd firearms I own and is my go-to rifle weekly to shoot goats) and now 40+ years later it has fired upwards of 5000 rounds - and it has been "cleaned" 4 times in its life. Before and after every use I run a pull through using just a dry patch. The four times it has been "cleaned" using a rod and jag were all times that I was indeed a "d******d and managed to bury the crown in the mud and a pull through would not drop through the bore. Since its purchase the barrel is around 2" shorter than it was as I had to have crown jobs done on it (obviously more than mud when I fell) and just last weekend my brother came down to the farm and we had a shoot up with various rifles and at 100m and 200m this old uncleaned Parker Hale still gave my nice new 6.5 PRC a run for its money grouping just over 1 moa with my handloads. My PRC was shooting .73 moa but admittedly I am still working up a good load for it. My 40 year old Miroku under and over has never been cleaned and as a general rule I don't clean rifles after use. The caveat here is that they always get a good coat of CLP on the outside to prevent rust and if I have been hunting in the rain then they do get a strip down to oil under the stock for the same reason. The PRC is the only rifle that gets cleaned after every shoot because it is my intended 800m target rifle and I have been told (again by an old fart who is my age now) that stainless steel barrels are less forgiving that the "good old quality blued barrels". So I guess what I am saying is that it is easy to get carried away with the whole cleaning business. I totally believe Neil now when he gave me the advice many years ago. It was advice I gratefully accepted because I HATE cleaning firearms. To me they are tools and if they are doing the job then that is all fine by me.