I’ve been to a lot of trade shows in Firearm Industry, from Police and Security Expos to NRA Trade Shows and there are always people at these shows with something new, but sometimes when  you still have plenty of the old stuff, there’s no need to toss anything away.   As my firearm collection grew, I ended up needing more and more cleaning devices, different cleaning rods, different brushes, different cleaning patches.   At one point a friend of mine showed me his range cleaning kit and had a Hoppes 22 Caliber Boresnake for his AR15.    The beauty of this was that it also would work in my 22LR rifles.   Its probable about this time I realized the differences between each type of rifle wasn’t really that much, a .224 diameter bullet was still a 22 Caliber and getting new cleaning brushes wasn’t an issue anymore.

I rarely used the boresnakes on handguns because I already have a small pistol cleaning brush brush but once I’m out of all of the cleaning patches I have left, I’ll probable start switching over to to the 38/357/9mm pistol Boresnakes.   That pretty much covers cleaning a Smith & Wesson Model 19  39 Special/357 Magnum and any 9mm Handgun I own.    The one issue I have had with cleaning handguns is whenever I have shot lead.   Reloading saves you money, but reloading lead bullets is a mess to clean up in the chamber and barrels and I have actually stopped doing that in Semi-Auto Handguns because of how much of a liability it is to constantly worry if I “got it all”  revolvers are a little bit easier to find all of the carbon and  lead, but if you have mostly 22 Caliber or 30 Caliber rifles, you’ll probable get away with only needing a 22 Caliber Boresnake and 30 Caliber Boresnake.