Bolt Carrier Cleaning Kit - Anyone used these?

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A bit pricey I guess but looks like it’s great for cleaning all the BCG components very thoroughly.

I have some carbon build up on the end of my boat tail. I’ve used Hoppes and brass brushes and it still won’t come off completely.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this tool or similar?

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Leave the carbon alone. You'll do more damage scraping it off with a metal tool than you'll do good.
This is why I haven’t scraped it off. The site says “this tool is 100% safe for your BCG” but I am skeptical.

Thanks for the reply.
 
On the rare occasion I clean my BCG, it gets a dip in the Ultrasonic bath with Simple Green.

Joking aside, I shoot mustly suppressed, so
My BCG gets pretty nasty. The US has proven super effective for me. Emphasis on effective. I’d likely fail an inspection from Gunny Highpoint, but it deals with getting the crud cleaned up and keeping everything running.
 
On the rare occasion I clean my BCG, it gets a dip in the Ultrasonic bath with Simple Green.

Joking aside, I shoot mustly suppressed, so
My BCG gets pretty nasty. The US has proven super effective for me. Emphasis on effective. I’d likely fail an inspection from Gunny Highpoint, but it deals with getting the crud cleaned up and keeping everything running.
I guess I’m just over thinking it. It hasn’t been an “issue”.

Hopefully the hard chrome bolt on the new 11.5 upper will just wipe clean.
 
It appears to be a blatant rip off of the Otis BONE at a 30% surcharge. I talked with the owner of Otis years ago, he was at the annual sniper comp on Bragg giving out swag and breaking down his cleaning devices. Dude is a wealth of knowledge, and not in a snake oil salesman way. His tool is designed to remove excess cardon, not physically drag on the walls of the metal itself. So it won't "G.I." clean the BCG but just remove elements that cause friction - someone like me who shoots a couple hundred rounds suppressed and then leds my gun sit for 3 months in it own filth, really appreciates that.


Not to carry on about my man crush, but Otis's variant of a bore snake. the Ripcord, is revolutionary. Yea it is pricey, but when you use a cheap bore snake and drag it through your barrel, it strecthes, therefore only the front and end of the bore snake actually contact the rifling, where as Otis "ripcord" is designed to not hourglass shape when being pulled through the barrel. This is the same guy that was telling people to dump their steel cleaning rods (for anything except expedient case removal) a decade before it became common knowledge
 
I have a different one than that, but only use it maybe once a year.
 
I use the KZ CRT.

 
It appears to be a blatant rip off of the Otis BONE at a 30% surcharge. I talked with the owner of Otis years ago, he was at the annual sniper comp on Bragg giving out swag and breaking down his cleaning devices. Dude is a wealth of knowledge, and not in a snake oil salesman way. His tool is designed to remove excess cardon, not physically drag on the walls of the metal itself. So it won't "G.I." clean the BCG but just remove elements that cause friction - someone like me who shoots a couple hundred rounds suppressed and then leds my gun sit for 3 months in it own filth, really appreciates that.


Not to carry on about my man crush, but Otis's variant of a bore snake. the Ripcord, is revolutionary. Yea it is pricey, but when you use a cheap bore snake and drag it through your barrel, it strecthes, therefore only the front and end of the bore snake actually contact the rifling, where as Otis "ripcord" is designed to not hourglass shape when being pulled through the barrel. This is the same guy that was telling people to dump their steel cleaning rods (for anything except expedient case removal) a decade before it became common knowledge

Agree without all the man love though. I’ve used Otis stuff for years. Bought another bore snake for my 6.5 and it sucks. Sometimes you do get what you pay for.
 
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