Bore Snake

[Disabled1]

I sure hope this is the correct forum to post this in.
My g/f listens very well when I usually talk about my firearms and firearms in general.
Just recently she bought me a Hoppe's .223/5.56 bore snake and some GRIZZLY GREASE CLP.
I am old school and use the traditional rod type gun cleaning kit. I use Hoppe's #9 solvent for scrubbing and soaking and make my own lube. It's a mixture of 5W30 M1-90% and Mercon V-10%. I have been known to use 3 IN 1 oil at times.
I have never used a bore snake before. And, I have never used any kind of CLP gun grease before. In the ARMY we used Military issued CLP.
I watched a few video's about the bore snake and really walked away confused. Why? Some said this is how you use it. Others said this is how you use it. BTW, I did read the directions and most likely will follow those.
What I want to know is, can I add some of the GRIZZLY GREASE to the bore snake and use it like that? Opinions?

 

[Dennis]

No grease in the bore. I have read that you can apply solvent to the snake. I only use em on my .22s. Rods for 223 and above.

 

[Absalom]

I'm not familiar with the specific grease you're talking about, but I've got bore snakes for my most common calibers.

Basically, you can use the bore snakes with whatever you want. Just think reusable patch. Your decision on what you're going to smear on the snake is really only limited by whether you're planning to run the snake through the washer periodically and how the chemical will react to that. Otherwise, it's just going to be a grease snake.

I don't use the snakes as replacements for rod and patches. But they are great for quick cleanings in the middle of shoots, swiping the barrel on a hunt, or at the end of a hunt if I've only fired one shot and a full cleaning with liquids would be overkill. They're easy to ball up and shove in a pocket. And if you use them for dry cleanings, powder residue will wash out. I haven't thrown one away yet because it was "used up".

 

[MichiganScott]

Google "stuck bore snake" and you will find all the ways that you do not want to use it. Seems that the smaller the bore the more common it is for someone to do something stupid and get the snake stuck.

 

[Disabled1]

I'm not familiar with the specific grease you're talking about,

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[FPrice]

I use my bore snakes primarily as a range cleaning tool. When we are all done with firing a particular firearm I run the bore snake through, usually twice, and it seems to make any detail cleaning later easier.

The only problem area is sometimes trying to get the little metal weight at the end to fall freely through a .22 caliber barrel. But if I take my time and pay attention to what I am doing, it works well.