Newbie Question: How to do Bore Cleaning on a Whisper?

[SpringStan]

Neat Resource This!

I picked up a Whisper DX this week at Gander Mountain in Wichita and after reading about plastic triggers (I always do things backwards) took it back to exchange for another with a metal trigger. I looked through several boxes to find the only one left. Whew!

Anyhow, the bore is filthy but it still groups with my (newly developing) artillery hold. *Sorta* groups that is. I messed with some .095 monofilament string trimmer string as a "cleaning rod" and the pointed end will NOT(!) go through the supressor/muzzle break.

What do you guys do for bore maintenance, that own this gun?


THANKS!
Former Lurker,
Stan

[johnathon 1]

hey there you can use a drinking straw one of thoughts thick ones push it through to the barrel and then just use the cleaning rod as usual i have a whisper in 177 cal works for me hope this helps 

[SpringStan]

Drinking Straw....  Hey! 

THAT might keep the point of my .095 monofiliment from curling around and catching on the baffles.

Hmmmm...I wonder if it will it go in all the way to the crown...

Gonna try that right now.

Thanks!
Stan

[gene_sc]

The straw method is the best way to run a swab through the barrel with a weed eater line.
NOTE:
I had a client that had tried to shoot RWS cleaning wads to clean his barrel. They got hung up in the baffles which pretty much ruined any future accuracy. Never shoot those cleaning wads through the barrel of a Whisper..

[cactusrat]

I’ve been fighting with baffles for the longest time. I was getting ready to cut them off with a hack saw and then worry about accuracy latter…. LOL 

I’ll give the straw thingy a try.

Now, how many soda straws will the little girl at the corner store let me have with one drink?

But missy, wait until you get to be my age and see how hard it is to not so good threw one of those little straws.

[SpringStan]

OK.  So the straw is a good idea, no doubt. 

But I finally gave up on the .095 weed whacker line and bought a .177 cal cleaning rod from Walmart for just under $4.00. It has swivel T-handle, but it isn't an high-end ball bearing type. I bought a set of jags from Sports Authority (formerly Gart Sports) and a set of 22 cal patches. I put the .177 jag point in the center of the patch and push it through the bore towards the muzzle end--one direction only. The patch just falls out when it gets to the end of the stroke. (Same thing on my Crosman .22 Titan GP--the .22 jag fits too tight to make me comfortable, so I use the .177 jag on it too.)

Should I push the point of the jag through the patch up to the shoulder---or just let the point of the jag stretch the center of the patch, not penetrating it?

To the response cautioning against "shooting" a cleaning pellet through the bore (and the baffles of course):  GOOD advice!! I probably would have thought of that, but it doesn't hurt to mention it.

Thanks!
Stan