Gun Cleaning Kits by Sage & Braker. Detachable Bronze Brush Makes for The Fastest, cleanest and Easiest Way to Clean Your Shotgun and rifle's bore.

Update: I began experiencing some troubles cleaning my .22s. The front of the thick cord began to fray, and I couldn't pull it into the barrel! I contacted the company (Fred) and he immediately send me out a replacement. Really nice guy making some excellent products and delivering outstanding customer service. Given the outstanding manner in which he handled this problem, I immediately purchased another bore snake for my 9mm and spouse's 380. These are truly fantastic products!Previous review: The worst thing about this product is how stupid it makes you feel for not having bought this sooner. Seriously. I suppose there might be something quaint about folding up felt pads and mounting it on rod and getting on with it. But not for me. I have used this thing a few times on several rifles and I've only ever needed a single pass to get an insanely clean barrel.Lately, I haven't event used solvent, I just pass it through dry. Again, the barrel is spotless after a single pass. It takes longer to unwind/unwrap and re-wrap/rewind the 'snake' than it does to pass through (clean) the firearm. I really like the fact it can be unscrewed and separated for cleaning of the snake itself (but I haven't had to do that yet).Pros: AMAZING! Forget traditional cleaning kits, just get this.Cons: You need several of them if you have firearms of many different calibers. But generally, each snake covers several close calibers.Summary: I love this thing and will likely buy one for every caliber I own or acquire.I received absolutely nothing in exchange for this review. If the review helped you, please click 'helpful'. Thanks for reading!

Nice quality. The "rope" element is well built, if that makes any sense. Company seems genuinely interested in producing high quality items with reliably high customer satisfaction.Works as advertised, but...the brass brush provides very little contact with the barrel of my .40 (Sig P226). I really don't hear/feel the brush working at all, and there is little resistance when pulling the brush through. I have another cleaning kit (Hoppes) and the .38 brush in that kit makes much better contact, and that's serving as my point of reference. That's the only product improvement I can think of, but to tell the truth it has me thinking twice about getting another one of these for other guns. A 3 star rating seems a little harsh but I'm not willing to give it 4 stars. If the brush worked better it would be a full 5 stars.**Modification to my review: After some thinking for a few hours I've decided to amend my review, changing it from 3 to 5 stars. Let me explain why.Initially I left a 3 star review because of the reason seen above. Within a few hours I was contacted by Fred, from the Sage and Mercantile Co. This is what he had to say:Hello Barry, I'm Fred the owner of Sage & Braker. I noticed your review and wanted to contact you to make sure you're happy with our product. I see that you feel that the brush for the .40 cal is a bit small. I just wanted to give you our specs on it to assure you the size we are using is the correct one. The diameter of the copper brush we use for the .40 cal is 0.45 inches. This extra 0.05 inches allows for the brush to fully come in contact with the bore without being excessive in length which would damage the brushes rigidity. I hope this explains a little about what our thinking was in making this size brush. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out and ask me. (Nice choice in a sidearm by the way, I carry a Sig P220 in the .45) Take care, Fred Bohm // Sage & Braker MercantileWhile I didn't immediately accept his explanation as satisfactory, I realized that as a newbie to the world of handguns I really can't be sure if he's standing on firm ground, or if I am. My experience is very limited. Maybe his product cleans just as well as the brushes that have more "drag" (as part of the Hoppes kit referenced above). Maybe it doesn't. I'm not sure.Another thing that stood out above all else is the communication itself. Not what he said, but that fact that he made the effort to say anything at all. As someone who spends considerable amounts of his professional life thinking about, designing and implementing quality systems for a complicated industry (healthcare) I'm extremely impressed with any company that goes so far in their efforts to satisfy customers. No strong-arming, no bullsh*%, just honest caring about the customer experience. That goes a long way for me, and gives me confidence in the product and the company. A rare double these days, don't you think?Five stars. Well deserved when considering the sum total of my experience in this online purchase. Thanks, Fred.

This is hands down, the best snake in the world. No exception.I would consider myself an subject matter expert on firearm cleaning. Unless there is anyone else on here who put millions (yes millions) of rounds downrange, I would consider them fairly experienced as well. The bore snake was non-existent until about 2004. Only a few select specialized units in the military got a few to try out as part of a military contract right after the invasion in Iraq which was late 2003 early 2004. Everyone made fun of the bore snakes, calling them "gun tampons." However once guys started realizing that cleaning times were cut drastically, everyone starting taking them a little more serious. The benefits of a more snake, it replaces those annoying rods that you must twist together and take apart, with the standard punch rod system they will NEVER get your bore as clean as a snake. I love it when these air-soft professionals post their Mil-spec genius opinions on forums about these things who couldn't operate a mechanical pencil if their lives depended on it.My final Assessment: there are many bore snake manufactures out there, very good, high quality snakes that can be had for a lot less. However I have a cleaning case full of bore snakes that Sage and Braker have replaced. Heres why!Sage and Braker stamp the caliber on the drop weight so theres no confusion as to which caliber snake your grabbing. Nothing worse than doing to pull a .308 caliber snake through a .223 barrel. Some guys will tell you that you can tell just buy looking at it... yeah if you only shoot two calibers. What if you have multiple calibers and a case full of snakes like me.Also the thread count is much higher with a Sage and Braker, which means the snake will expand more when pressure is applied. Meaning more metal real estate is going to be touched by the snake.The best part: It has a detachable "copper," brush head. Why is this awesome? because you can detach the copper head and literally throw your snake in washing machine with your clothes.I have used this product overseas in combat areas. I wouldn't bring anything else with me. I'm a nut so I take gun cleaning serious, most because I believe if you take care of your gear, your gear takes care of you. As for is there anything better on the market or in the military. No this is the best I've ever seen. Good company, never needed customer support but I've heard they are easy to work with.Also watch their video on how to use the snake. I know it should be common sense but bore snakes are a three part system. You want to make sure you use a quality solvent, lightly spread on the first 3-5 inches of the thick part of the rope on the side of the drop weight. On the other end about 8 inches down you want to add about 3-5 inches of quality lubricant and run the snake through the bore about 2-3 times. I usually go about 3-4. The reason why you don't lube up the very end is because you want a little bit of dry rope to clean off the excess lubrication. When you lubricate a weapon there should not be visible lube, it should look slightly coated but not dripping or accumulating in areas. If you over lubricate the weapon you can cause excess carbon to stick to those areas which could cause your weapon to go out of battery,The three step process is:1) Removing carbon (Solvent)2) Drying3) Lubricating