Can A 22 Gun Cleaning Rod Work For 17 Hmr

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Guvnor Member

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Maybe its just me, just cleaning my .17 hmr is a major pain. For some reason I really need to Strength the cleaning patches downwardly the bore. Its an extremely tight fit. I have tried 2 dissimilar brands of patch jags with the same results.
In add-on, Trying to send a bore brush down the diameter is simply incommunicable without risking snapping the cleaning rod.

Anyone else have this problem? I noticed the jags and bore brush are labeled simply ".17 caliber" and not .17 hmr. Are centerfire .17'due south or a .177 airgun a unlike diameter diatmeter than .17 hmr? Does anyone make a defended .17 hmr patch jag?

As well, how often should ane be cleaning the bore of a .17 HMR?
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Yes, this is a purple PITA.
I institute a decent technique:
Buy (society from Pyramidair if yous have to) a box of .177 airgun cleaning pellets. They are niggling felt cylinders just a bit also large for your .17hmr bore, which ways they volition be a overnice tight fit.

Wet them with a copper/powder solvent (not Hoppes #9 - you take to get the copper out) then Button them through the bore with a bare jag. Works dandy.

Skip the patches and brushes, IMO.

Airgun cleaning tools may be too fat. I think the .17hmr is spec'd at .172 and airgun bores (or pellets, anyhow) run .177. I have a solid .17 cleaning rod that I employ to push the cleaning pellets.

-Daizee
Thanks for the slap-up idea Daizee
Prissy tip Daizee! I volition order some today.
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CraigC Sixgun Nut
Hope yous're not doing this too often, the .17HMR is notorious for shooting better with a dirty diameter.
Listen to Craig- It can take several boxes of ammo for the butt to get back to "shot in"
I don't have a HMR, but the Mach II is a PITA to clean. I am strongly considering getting a HMR bolt gun as a replacement, only being hard to clean is the only thing stopping me.
Information technology might help if you lot try stabbing the patch a fiddling off centre at first for a actually muddied bore. As it gets cleaner, so stab it in the center of the patch to finish upward the job.
i cant get a brass brush in but nylon brushes worked fine
start off; I like a foamin cleaner. I feel they are superior in every fashion, including for centerfires. for more regular cleaning, You have to do one of 2 things; use a pointed jag, with a ROUND PATCH, to push cleaning stuff through. Second thing is to use an otis, or boresnake(s), to pull through, cleaner then another one to pull through oil, and a 3rd one, for drying upwardly the backlog lube.
It is done (if the heir-apparent holds upward his finish of the bargain), I'k just waiting to ship it out. Locally ammo is more similar two/3 the cost, and so I decided to revert back to .22LR on my x/22...the existent cheap stuff. The only matter preventing me from going with a bolt action .17HM2 is the uncertain future for the cartridge and lack of ammunition manufacturers save for CCI (which I will no longer be patronizing).
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I notice the .17 boresnake to exist a major pain, which is why I developed the cleaning pellet approach. The brass airplane pilot on the boresnake only barely fits downwardly the bore (fouled diameter, mind you), until it is peened to attach it to the leader. Oops - out of round, and doesn't fit.
Bleh.
-Daizee
Guvnor,
I've got ii .17 HMR long guns. A Ruger 77-17 and a .17 HMR barrel for my Thompson Encore. I besides take a .177 RWS airgun. I use the pocket-size caliber cleaning cable made by Otis Gun for all of them. In fact, I use the Otis system for every long gun I own. It works bang-up!! They make a 17 caliber brush that's shorter than your typical bore brush and it pulls through quite easily. They as well brand minor quotient patches that work very well on the 17 HMR.

Since their flexible "cleaning rods" are made from coated aircraft cable yous tin push them through the diameter until enough of the cablevision protrudes from the muzzle to pull it through the rest of the manner and so you lot don't end up with the same issues you may come across that Daizee is describing with the BoreSnake.
I simply bankrupt of the prongs of a plastic fork I had around me at the time to push tiny foursquare patches in then used the cleaning rod to push it out. Information technology is a existent PITA. One reason why I am selling mine also that ammo is too pricey and not reloadable and take no real apply for it. My .22lr works fine for squirrels and rabbits.
Amen to that!
The 17HMR is well designed, authentic, ballistically superior to the 22LR, but since being debuted, has almost doubled in price for the ammo. I tin can reload my 222 and 223 for shut to the cost of the HMR ammo
Care has to exist taken when cleaning, and I cut my own patches to fit.

NCsmitty
The best thing I accept institute so far (after snapping off a contumely cleaning rod... D`oh!) is the Hoppe's BoreSnake. It's basically a shoe string with a brush embedded in the nose of information technology. Drop the leader down the bore, I add a couple drops of cleaner at the front of the serpent, a couple drops of oil about half style downwards, and pull it through. Comes out clean every bit a whistle with only the correct corporeality of oil. Far superior to patches, IMO.
I heard that! I really never shoot mine since I became a handloader.
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Thanks for all the suggestions anybody. I concord the ammo is getting pricey merely its such a fun cartridge to shoot.
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CraigC Sixgun Nut
If I can keep to pop crows at 250yds and coyotes out to 150yds and simply pay $13/50rds, I'm a happy camper. Unless you ignore the obvious, it'southward difficult to make a case against a $300 rifle that shoots half-MOA and kills critters graveyard dead at 250yds. Yous 'may' be able to load a .223 for similar costs if you don't factor in time and coin spent at the bench and in load development but how much did your rifle cost and how heavy is information technology?
Well said! Except you forgot a couple details. For example, the state I live in, in that location are certain "zones" you lot tin shoot center burn down in on public or private state. I exercise not live in that zone. Information technology is rim fire or shotgun hunting just. IMO, the 17 hmr is as close to a small caliber center fire functioning every bit you can go from a rim fire rifle, and mortiferous authentic to boot. And with varmint rounds, there is a low chance of ricochet or stray bullets.
Yep, it's a pain to clean - I cut down my .22 patches a petty and they become through ok. You just need to exist patient. I guide the rod by placing ane hand over the cheekpiece of the the stock, with fingers over the rod to keep it from bending. You tin can merely exercise that if the rifle is held in a stand though.
I debated the .22LR vs. .17HMR as well. I decided that since I have iv or 5 .22 rifles that I rarely shoot, I'd try a .17HMR and run into if it's equally much fun as I hear it is. It is. Fun, that is.

I'k enjoying it, anyway.