Patches and cloth for the bore, and the material you wipe everything else down with.
What to use where
- Pre-cut patches — Tipton in .22–.270 (1.13in square) and .27–.35 (1.75in square), 100 to a pack. Size the patch to the bore, not to the jag. One that needs forcing will stick halfway down; a loose one does nothing at all.
- Felt pellets — Tipton .243/6mm, for a quick pull-through between sessions.
- Cleaning material by the roll — Napier Ultra Clean, Superclean VP90 in 14m, Rifle Clean for rifled bores, and Parker-Hale's 4B2 Fourbytoo in six-yard lengths. Cut to whatever size the job needs, which works out cheaper than pre-cut across a season.
- Oiled field wipes — Napier VP90 field patch sachets, ten to a box, for wiping down at the vehicle before the gun goes into the slip wet.
Method
Wet patch, brush, dry patches until they come out clean, then a lightly oiled one. Run the rod from the breech wherever the action allows it, and never pull a dirty patch back down the bore — that is grinding fouling into the rifling rather than removing it. Patches are consumable and cheap; barrels are not.
The rest of the kit: Cleaning Kits · Rods · Brushes · Mops · Cleaning Sprays.
