New clean

[ozpompey]

Just purchased a new 22 magnum lever action, wanted to clean any factory residue in the barrel, but my boresnake just doesn't want to come through the action, I am a bit nervous of pulling to hard and it snapping somewhere in the barrel... Any thoughts or ideas ????....

[No1Mk3]

Make a pull-through with some string, use a soaked patch, just ensure you pull straight out as you do with your bore snake. Alternatively buy or borrow an appropriate size rod and jag.

[ozpompey]

I have a 22 rod, but can't run them through from the breech on a lever action...

[Wapiti]

Don't sweat it mate.
Go buy a good rod that's got a brass guide with it that you stick in the end of the barrel after the brush/jag goes in (from the muzzle), and keeps it centred.
So it doesn't rub on the rifling at the crown.
A brush on a rod, and a cotton patch on a spear jag after, will clean your bore WAY better than those hideous snakes.

If you keep using that bore snake, and it does what May-in-Chyna stuff always does down the track, degrades suddenly, catches you out and snaps in the bore halfway down, and you will regret it.

If you ever get the chance, buy a good carbon-fibre cleaning rod. These things never (cannot) bend like steel rods, and if they do touch the steel of your barrel, just glide over it without wear. Well worth it, buy once cry once.

Opinions are like arseholes though, right? IMHO

[No1_49er]

I have a 22 rod, but can't run them through from the breech on a lever action...

That's why my lever guns are all MARLINs.
Drop the lever out, withdraw the bolt, and push the cleaning rod straight through.

[Damo300]

How hard is the bolt to remove?
Yours may be a pain in the rear.

My Rossi is one bolt on the lever pivot.
Lever comes out, and the bolt is easy to slide out.
Just watch the little 2 piece spring guide on the opposing side that the bolts slides over.

Clean as normal.