Ed Harris--Revisiting the Full Charge Wadcutter

[Totem Polar]

The slotted tip from a cleaning kit. They’re useless.

This?

[revchuck38]

I don't see how it's useless. Put a patch in it, soak the patch with your favorite solvent, and use it to soak the bore and chambers with solvent. It's not good for much else, but it's good for that.

[gato naranja]

I don't see how it's useless. Put a patch in it, soak the patch with your favorite solvent, and use it to soak the bore and chambers with solvent. It's not good for much else, but it's good for that.

That is what I (still) use them for. It is not a substitute for a jag and vice-versa.

For years, gun cleaning kits seemed to come with only a brush and a slotted tip as rod attachments. There was nary a jag in sight in the first J.C. Higgins cleaning kit I bought from the local Sears store back around 1970; why I remember that, I do not know.

[Totem Polar]

I may be a Pleistocene-era dinosaur, but I just grab that slotted bastid, and run a hoppes #9 soaked patch through the bore. Or, more often, a patch through the bore and all 5/6 chambers.

I must be wheelgunning wrong.

[Wayne Dobbs]

Understand that, just don't understand your post in the context of the full power wadcutter concept.

[jtcarm]

Thread derailment warning:
How bout we drop the cleaning component?
Sorry for starting the debate.