I first got turned on to changing my cleaning system after I ran out of a certain type of cleaning patch for my 22lr rifle.   It really can be a royal pain in the butt when you are going from cleaning a 22lr rifle, 45acp pistol, a 30 caliber battle rifle and realizing that all you have is a bunch of 30 caliber type cleaning patches and it’s time to look around for that pair of scissors that you thought was in the kitchen and now it’s know where to be found.   If the cleaning patch isn’t cut right, you will risk jamming it in your rifle barrel and that can be a real difficult challenge.

The Otis gun cleaning system that I use is very versatile.    I admit that I do own a few bore snakes, but I’m not going to run out and pick up a bore snake for every single caliber I own.   The Otis kit I have is a universal kit that can clean most handgun and rifle calibers and is very compact and works as well as any of my cleaning rods do.   I’m sure if you had to literally scrub a bore, y ou may want a cleaning rod, but that’s a non issue for me.    The best thing about this configurtion is I only need 1 cleaning patch and depending on how you fold it, you can use it for 22LR on up to 30 caliber firearms with ease.