Question for Brown 97D owners

[AlanF]

What are you guys using for a bore guide with these rifles?  I've got one ordered and would like to have a good bore guide to use.  Thanks.

Alan

[pastorp]

Alan, If you can clean it from the chamber end why would you need a bore guide? I believe they are a falling block design which should let you clean from the chamber. Regards, Byron

[smk]

I modified a bore guide that I had for another rifle - don't know what it was for originally. It is difficult to adapt bore guides from other falling block rifles because the breech block is so narrow on the M97d, it takes a very narrow bore guide. I don't know of an easy solution, but there is probably a bore guide for another rifle that might work, but I don't know what it would be. I should have called Brown, but I have a useble one now.  Why use a bore guide? To align the rod to minimize damage to the chamber throat, to keep solvent and crud out of the action and if you use a nylon coated rod you will shave off the nylon on the sharp edges of the chamber and extractor, and it's just faster to have alignment on the rod when brushing a bore.

[dodd3]

AlanF what is the gun chamberd for here is an easy to make bore guid you just take one of your empty cases and drill out the flash hole to let your cleaning pass through it. did one for my buff classic 45/70
heres a pic it works realy well.
bernie

[Steve E]

For my Encore barrels I did what dodd has done with the cartridge cases, works great and cost just pennys. Should work the same for the M97's.

                                                         Steve E.............

[gypsyman]

Alan, I have several BF's, one rifle, and 2 pistols, as well as a smattering of T/C's and encore's, both rifle and pistol. I use a brass muzzle guard that come's on Kleen-Bore rods, or if I'm using a Tetra rod, it comes with a delron muzzle guard.
I know that their designed for the other end, but they do a fairly decent job of keeping the rod straight as I push thru from the breech end. Gypayman