I have always cleaned my bolt actions from the breech end, with no or tough access through the breech, I have used the muzzle, but like the snakes better for that. I still have an original cleaning kit for my Garand, an early model snake, but it has never been out of the package.C-dub wrote:If using a cleaning rod, don't most rifles' manuals recommend inserting the rod from the end of the barrel and then attaching a cleaning patch and pulling it through the barrel from the breach? And wouldn't it also be a bit difficult to insert a cleaning rod down a barrel through the breach because of the angle? However, I'm not real sure about this because I use snakes.
That kaboom was a bolt gun, in my humble opinion there should never have been a cleaning rod down that barrel.