The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

ok i give up and ask this due to sheer embarrassment and at the risk of looking ignorant , i have sat and looked at this thing since i got my first yugo years ago , and i can't figure out what the h@ll its doing in a rifle kit , the thingy that is the olive drab cotton cord with the lead weight's attached to the end ???

this thing

I thought it was a rope type cleaner?

It's a jump rope, this way you can stay in shape while you clean your carbine

I believe it's a type of bore snake, but I'm only speculating. My Russian didn't come with one nor have I seen one before. I think I've seen them on Ebay though.

Pretty cool

It's for cleaning the bore, you drop the weight down the bore and pull the rest along, field cleaning tool. Common, we had them, the Brits did also.

It's a commie boresnake.

what they said but i do not like the one i have.

are you all sure ? i have used a patch tied to a string to clean pistols and shotguns before , but mine looks unused and the weights appear to big to fit down the bore , anyone care to demonstrate

It's called a pull-through.

dou44 wrote:what they said but i do not like the one i have.

It's a crude tool used to clean the rifle in the field during a prolonged absence from any encampment. You are supposed to use it for a display, not use it for cleaning

i had to use it one time and if it was i all i had i would use it,but i will stick to my one pieace cleaning rod.

The British ones are fairly good, at one time they sold for .25 each, but now they may be getting hard to find. You know what the German ones look like I am sure, never use them, metal to metal contact is bad enough with the issue steel cleaning rods.