Quote Originally Posted by sharpshooter View Post
Evidently you've never used a carbon fiber rod before. I've owned at least one of every brand of cleaning rod made, and the carbon fiber rods have outlasted all the others. Carbon fiber will not kink like steel rods, which is very important if you have small calibers like .17 and .20. There is no coating to peel or strip off, and I've never broken one. There is no "outer layer", it is solid. The Tipton rods also have sealed ball bearings.
If you spin a tipton and then spin a dewey