Homemade bore guide?

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Has anyone ever tried making a homemade bore guide, particularly for and AR15?

Seems that there's gotta be some way around paying $20+ for a danged piece of plastic pipe. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
I made a whole set for my 'tenders. I used Delrin bar stock and turned them in the lathe to fit the chamber tight. Each is made for a specific case size/family and bore. I have seen the AR style and they are simple enough.
Problem you would have is that the bar would cost you as much as the single guide. The 3' piece I got made several guides and I needed several so I made out.
 
IMO a good carbon fiber cleaning rod is all that is needed unless you have $50,000 target rifles. Even then a bore guide is just another $20 something that people buy because someone told them they needed it.

It is not needed, I have rifles that are 50+ yrs old and have yet to see the negative impacts (if there are any) of cleaning them for 50 yrs without a bore guide.

And I probably won't as they are hunting rifles that most see 20 rounds a yr some a couple of hundred.

My guess is most barrels will be shot out long before they could possibly be damaged to the point of ruin with a cleaning road

But, to each their own
 
This is one of those things that...... your best off just buying the one you need instead of screwing around making one, that in the end might cost you more money, time, and trouble than a factory made one.

I have three Sinclair Delrin bore guides, they cost me 20 bucks each and work well.
 
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IMO a good carbon fiber cleaning rod is all that is needed unless you have $50,000 target rifles. Even then a bore guide is just another $20 something that people buy because someone told them they needed it.

It is not needed, I have rifles that are 50+ yrs old and have yet to see the negative impacts (if there are any) of cleaning them for 50 yrs without a bore guide.

And I probably won't as they are hunting rifles that most see 20 rounds a yr some a couple of hundred.

My guess is most barrels will be shot out long before they could possibly be damaged to the point of ruin with a cleaning road

But, to each their own



Your blanket statement does not apply to every situation. My Contenders open so as to expose the trigger/sear/hammer parts to any cleaning product I use that can drip from the open breech. By using a bore guide I eliminate that chance. Ammonia and products that contain ammonia can turn to a gum like consistency ...I don't want that.
Some of us shoot a whole lot more than 20 rds. a year, some are much closer to thousands than hundreds. A 50 year old rifle thats been shot 20 times a year is childs play.
A $400-800 custom barrel job gets more attention from me than a $35 factory rifle barrel. A $20 bore guide seems pretty cheap given the situation. But thats just me.......
 
A bore guide is a good thing to use for any rifle cleaning. It's hard to beat the commercial machined ones.

The cost is almost nothing and the extra cleanup it saves is worth the cost many times over. Not to mention what cleaning solvent will eventually do to your stock and bedding job.

The carbon fiber rods work well but will also rub a chamber and rifling eventually, will it affect accuracy? Unless your game is .1's in benchrest, probably not much.

It's all a personal choice...

Nikonut /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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It's hard to beat the commercial machined ones.


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Unless you have unlimited machine shop resources, materials on hand and willing employees that is. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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This is one of those things that...... your best off just buying the one you need instead of screwing around making one, that in the end might cost you more money, time, and trouble than a factory made one.

I have three Sinclair Delrin bore guides, they cost me 20 bucks each and work well.



I would have to agree. I could easily make one with all the tools I have, but for $20..........
 
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Ammonia and products that contain ammonia can turn to a gum like consistency ...I don't want that.




That's why I got one myself, that CR-10 and Sweet's isn't good stuff to be getting into your trigger group and onto springs, etc.
Plus it keeps the rod centered at the same time and saves you from peeling the coating. My rod cost as much as the bore guide. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

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Unless you have unlimited machine shop resources, materials on hand and willing employees that is.



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif That does open up a lot of options.
 
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This is one of those things that...... your best off just buying the one you need instead of screwing around making one, that in the end might cost you more money, time, and trouble than a factory made one.

I have three Sinclair Delrin bore guides, they cost me 20 bucks each and work well.



+1 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif This will make you want to clean your rifle vs. being a chore!!! http://www.sinclairintl.com/product/5784/AR15-Cleaning-Products Sinclairs shipping was reasonable to boot!
 
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I like how the Oring on the end keeps the bore solvents out of the chamber too, not just the trigger.

peace.
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I just put a stock boot on my rifle, insert the bore guide, put a paper towel under the end of it and squirt the wipe-out in from the muzzle end. What runs out the bore guide, the paper towel catches.

Its the only really clean way of using wipe-out. Much as I love the stuff, it can get out of control and all over the place. I dont want the stuff all over a AAA claro walnut stock.
 


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