Quote Originally Posted by RC20 View Post
Hunters only may clean with steel rods. How many of use do?

Again I think its overblown. Hard steel is hard enough to cut with a file or blade designed to do so, smooth steel rod (and far more generally aluminum) hmmm.

I won't argue that many things are over-blown. Most of "my time" has had coated cleaning rods be vogue, they embed with crap. And just as the point of this thread reminds us, it seems also vogue to "clean constantly, or else". So will a bit of cleaning cause the sun to never rise? Of course not, but constant cleaning, where you are sawing on the lands isn't helping the cause.