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Posted: 12/2/2014 5:24:02 PM EDT
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Was looking at the BONE tool as well as the avid scraper... any thoughts?
556 btw |
| The bone tool works great and has a spot for scraping both the bolt itself and the inside of the BCG. That said, I haven't yet hadso much carbon caked on that I needed the tool... you can probably get away with using q tips and solvent/clp. The only reason I have one is because it came with my cleaning kit (Otis). Unless you fire thousands of rounds in one sitting without cleaning, I don't see the need for a dedicated scraper tool tbh. |
| The B.O.N.E. tool does a pretty good job but like mentioned earlier it takes quite a bit of carbon build-up for the tool to really shine. I clean my rifles after every range trip so I rarely have enough build up for the tool to remove. I did use it on a friends rifle that hadn't cleaned it once after firing 2K+ rounds. The carbon was old and rock hard...the BONE tool made short work of it. IMO it's a worthwhile tool to have in the old cleaning kit. |
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I looked at the BONE tool and wound up buying the CAT M4.
It seems to do a better job. It cleans the bolt tail, the carrier hole, and includes a firing pin cleaner to clean the carbon off the front of the firing pin flange. http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/rifle-tools/combination-tools/ar-15-m15-cat-tool-prod31857.aspx |
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I have ARs that have 20 yrs of shooting use. never scraped anything. why do i need this? You don't. The only time I have ever used one is when my friend got one, and I tried it after we went shooting and tried to burn the barrel out on my RR. It did nothing that a butter knife or a good cleaning would do but my friend uses his every time he goes shooting and scrapes his bolt tail and laughs that I just spray mine down and give it a wipe. |
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How did it improve your weapon? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Did I say that in the video? I don't know, I don't watch videos except for porn. Not sure why else you would use it. |
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Sup mrgunsngear, I went with the avid and used it the other day, it works well and it has just about every size of scraper you would need. Firing pin, inside carrier, back end of bolt, bolt face, extractor and lug scraper. Worked out great. |
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I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Avid-AR-15-Scraper-Tool/dp/B00DPKZ1MO Works really well and is really affordable. Thanks Amazon  What do you think it helped with on your rifle's performance? Who says it has anything to do with the rifles performance? What about just making cleaning easier? Is there anything wrong with that? Use what works for you. Who cares if someone wants to pop money on a tool because it may or may not make cleaning easier? |
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Sup mrgunsngear, I went with the avid and used it the other day, it works well and it has just about every size of scraper you would need. Firing pin, inside carrier, back end of bolt, bolt face, extractor and lug scraper. Worked out great. Quoted:
Sup mrgunsngear, I went with the avid and used it the other day, it works well and it has just about every size of scraper you would need. Firing pin, inside carrier, back end of bolt, bolt face, extractor and lug scraper. Worked out great. Glad to hear it. |
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Who says it has anything to do with the rifles performance? What about just making cleaning easier? Is there anything wrong with that? Use what works for you. Who cares if someone wants to pop money on a tool because it may or may not make cleaning easier? Quoted:
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I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Avid-AR-15-Scraper-Tool/dp/B00DPKZ1MO Works really well and is really affordable. Thanks Amazon What do you think it helped with on your rifle's performance? Who says it has anything to do with the rifles performance? What about just making cleaning easier? Is there anything wrong with that? Use what works for you. Who cares if someone wants to pop money on a tool because it may or may not make cleaning easier? I think it's an absolute waste of time and money. I used to do that crap in the Corps and afterwards and then I started just hosing off with non chlorinated brake cleaner. I like to try and help people get past obsessing over over cleaning, especially when scraping metal against metal. |
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