Shotgun Cleaning Rod

[Chopper3030]

What kind of cleaning rod do you guys use for your shotguns?

I was in Bass Pro this weekend, and bought a new NEF Turkey gun (black stock, with XX-full screw-in choke).  First new shotgun I've bought in years.  Anyways, the guy who sold me the shotgun tried to sell me a $35 one-piece coated cleaning rod.  He says aluminum rods damage barrels.  I guess I could see that for rifled barrels.  But smoothbore shotguns?

Outers advertises their 3-piece aluminum rod as perfectly safe to clean any firearm.  And they sure cost a lot less than $35. 

What do you you guys say?

[rio grande]

Salesmen.
I just use my old m16 cleaning rod for everything.  I've got a shotgun brush adapter for it.
Tell you what, I'd use a wooden dowel before I'd pay $35.
Or I'd find a garage sale/gun show or pawn shop Outers type rod for about $3.
Salesmen - I guess he's just trying to do a good job for Bass Pro, not for you.

[kiddekop]

Salesmen.
I just use my old m16 cleaning rod for everything.  I've got a shotgun brush adapter for it.
Tell you what, I'd use a wooden dowel before I'd pay $35.
Or I'd find a garage sale/gun show or pawn shop Outers type rod for about $3.
Salesmen - I guess he's just trying to do a good job for Bass Pro, not for you.

Here's how I clean my shotguns I took an aluminum 12g cleaning rod & broke off the handle so I could chuck it into a drill,I installed a 12g brush wrapped with some 4 ought steel wool which I dip in Hoppes and power clean my barrels;it gets rid of plastic residue & powder then I install the patch holder & wipe out the barrel,next is a dampened patch with militech1.my blued steel shotgun barrels are coated with Trewax along with the walnut stock.

[Graybeard]

For smooth bores there is nothing better than those fuzzy rods sold by several outfits for the purpose. It's about all I ever use on 12 and 20s and the 20 can be used on 28s in a pinch but is mighty tight in there. I'd sure love to get another for both 28 and .410 as there is NOTHING that does a better job on smooth bores than them. I think TICO was the original but these days lots of companies make them. Get one and it's all you'll ever need for that smooth bore barrel.

[hunt-m-up]

Amen to the fuzzy rods, I have one I believe is called a Bore Runner,comes with it's own case, real slick and makes quick work of cleaning bird barrels

[Rustyinfla]

 I have a more expensive coated Dewey rod but not for shotguns. It's only for my BR rifles. For a shotgun I'd drop a wad of rags on a string down the bore before I'd pay $35 for a rod.

  The Otis kit and caboodle is about the best set up I've used for most everything. I never had a gun so clean as one of those things gets it.