Did I mention that a shoelace also makes a great improvised bore cleaning tool?. Out hunting and you stuff your muzzle in the mud? Get as much out with a stick or whatever, tie a piece of T-Shirt to the end of a shoelace and drop the other end through the barrel from the chamber end. Pull through and clean out the bore. When your wife does your laundry she's bound to ask about the piece of T-shirt missing along the bottom hem. Tell her the story then just use the laundered T-Shirt to cut regular cleaning patches from it. About a years supply if you cut them right.
BTW, how many here have come home from a hunting trip missing part of their T-Shirt after a sudden "Call of Nature" and you wanted something softer than a handful of leaves or some moss?
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