Watch it with those gun patches
I will admit that I have stuck gun cleaning patches in some of my firearms. I tried to do a fast clean with a Hoppes gun cleaning kit patch on a 22LR and punched a whole through the patch and had trouble getting the cleaning rod out of the firearm. Another time I used a wrong size cleaning patch on a Otis gun cleaning kit and almost broke the wire trying to get the patch out. I read something funny on the internet about this happening to a few other people and they had to put the gun in a vice or wrap the cord around a tree and yank. That’s never a good thing.
There is still nothing wrong with using a cleaning rod, but I think boresnakes really did do damage to the old cleaning rod relic sales. When you can simplify your gun cleaning supplies, and you can cut down on the amount of exposure to the toxic chemicals, you really are sold on upgrading your gear. I still haven’t gotten around to putting an Otis gun cleaning kit into my butt stock or grip, but I may do so in the near future. Cleaning brushes are something else I hate dealing with because if you don’t keep them organized, it’s hard to tell which caliber is for which, and you’ll know soon enough when the gun isn’t getting cleaned.