I recently bought an Otis all gun cleaning kit for around 50 bucks at sportsman's warehouse. As some of you may know I recently had a manic cleaning attack after I realized some of my guns were pitting inside the barrel due to me just relying on boresnakes and just a little solvent. So after some major purchases of base chemicals to try out and your basic cleaning rods with several different bore brushes and jags for the myriad of calibers I own, my office\gun room is now full of guns, knives, and a heap of supplies to feed and clean the beasts. So I figured I would try one more little gimmick and see if it works.
The Rundown:
This kit comes with a pouch about the size of your fist containing, acording to the provided literature, everything you need to clean any gun you own. Inside were a long steel cable with threads on both ends a short steel cable of the same configuration, and a cable meant for .17 caliber guns. It also was provided with brushes for .17 to .44 caliber guns with a brush also for 20 and 12 gauge shotguns. It had the eyelets for patches and an adapter to attach the .17 caliber and two ends to supposed aid in removing stuck cartridges. A few special patches, bore light type object, a tube of otis cleaner, a pick, and a instruction cd complete the kit.
I used the kit to clean my new acquisition, a ruger sp-101 jsut to test to see what the hype was all about and this is what went down: Following the destructions I ran a patch through with the small cable with the porvided cleaner. The ruger had been test fired at factory, and they send it out uncleaned. The bullet they used was jacketed so there was copper fouling. The patch can out very dirty, I let it set then ran a bruch through like the video, and then I ran a dry patch.
The result: While the kit was very handy the otis cleaner did nothing to remove the copper fouling, I used break free foaming bore cleaner to remove the copper. I will say that the pull through concept works well, but there is no way to push a jag through, which is a good way to clean the barrel. I will regulate this thing for deer camp, and for trips to the range, but I will be bringing along some bore cleaner, and clp to lube as well. For 50 bucks, it is hard to recomend, if the price came down, or you plan to live in the field and space is a precious commodity, you would be hard pressed to find something else to clean your guns.
The Rundown:
This kit comes with a pouch about the size of your fist containing, acording to the provided literature, everything you need to clean any gun you own. Inside were a long steel cable with threads on both ends a short steel cable of the same configuration, and a cable meant for .17 caliber guns. It also was provided with brushes for .17 to .44 caliber guns with a brush also for 20 and 12 gauge shotguns. It had the eyelets for patches and an adapter to attach the .17 caliber and two ends to supposed aid in removing stuck cartridges. A few special patches, bore light type object, a tube of otis cleaner, a pick, and a instruction cd complete the kit.
I used the kit to clean my new acquisition, a ruger sp-101 jsut to test to see what the hype was all about and this is what went down: Following the destructions I ran a patch through with the small cable with the porvided cleaner. The ruger had been test fired at factory, and they send it out uncleaned. The bullet they used was jacketed so there was copper fouling. The patch can out very dirty, I let it set then ran a bruch through like the video, and then I ran a dry patch.
The result: While the kit was very handy the otis cleaner did nothing to remove the copper fouling, I used break free foaming bore cleaner to remove the copper. I will say that the pull through concept works well, but there is no way to push a jag through, which is a good way to clean the barrel. I will regulate this thing for deer camp, and for trips to the range, but I will be bringing along some bore cleaner, and clp to lube as well. For 50 bucks, it is hard to recomend, if the price came down, or you plan to live in the field and space is a precious commodity, you would be hard pressed to find something else to clean your guns.
