Why bore guide

Bore Tech Rimfire Bore Guides will add approximately Make sure your cleaning rod is long enough to accommodate. Please see our convenient and easy to use Rod Length Guide by clicking the below or going to the Knowledge Center. This releases the pressure against the guide allowing it to be easily removed. A: No, these guides only fit specific rimfire, bolt action rifles.

Please see our Centerfire Bore Guides for this application. A: Please see our Knowledge Center for assistance in determining the proper rod length for your application. Please log in if you would like to place a review. Purchased for a CZ I have never seen one of better quality.

Add to Cart. In Stock! Guide Color Caliber Range Gold. Loosen the brass bolt collar handle and slide the rubber nosecone front end of the Bore Guide through the receiver until seated in the chamber.

Slide the bolt collar forward until the brass handle is aligned with the bolt handle recess. Rotate the brass handle downward into the bolt handle recess and tighten against the Bore Guide tube. At this point, the guide should not move forward or backwards. NOTE: On rifles without a bolt handle recess, it may be necessary to remove the brass locking handle and slide the bolt collar forward until the threaded locking handle hole is visible in the ejection port.

Reinsert the brass locking handle and tighten against Bore Guide tube to properly lock Bore Guide into action. Apply cleaner or oil to the patch and push through the bore. The solvent port may also be used to apply cleaner to brushes. To remove the Bore Guide from the action, loosen and rotate brass handle up and out of the bolt handle recess. Then pull Bore Guide and bolt collar back away from the chamber and out of the action.

Winchester Model 54 loosen the brass handle and leave the bolt collar in position. The bolt collar depresses the bolt release keeping it from catching on the lip of the rubber nose cone.

While keeping the bolt collar stationary, pull the Bore Guide backwards until rubber nosecone butts up against bolt collar. If you're using a particularly aggressive solvent and that overflow makes its way into the action and trigger, you're risking serious rust and damage to parts of your firearm. It also prevents harmful solvents from contacting, and often ruining, your gun's finish. What happens if you don't use a bore guide? Unless you're perfectly precise every time, you can allow the rod to bow, or bend, and gouge the chamber and throat of the bore.

That causes real damage to the inner workings of your firearm, not to mention a serious loss of accuracy. Keeping the rod properly aligned with a bore guide not only protects your barrel, but it properly directs the force exerted on the cleaning rod handle. You need that force to clean it, but not enough to bow the rod.

Using Tipton's tight patches to be pushed safer and easier. You can buy many of these Tipton items separately, but the Bore Guide Kit brings together everything you need.