Re: Which cleaning rod
Some rods can be chrome plated which makes them smooth, unlikely to attract microscopic particles which although smaller than any produced by firing explosives that squirt metal projectiles down the twisting, tight bore, could accumulate in the mind and create the notion of bore contamination and hence, erosion.
More importantly, a chrome rod will also create the mind notion associated with success, competence and intelligence, which lie not in the bore but at the core of the human ego such that the rod appeals unknowingly to the unaware to the primal part of the mind as a symbol of masculinity - the all-powerful penis - our prehistoric instinctual drive to enter the gene pool.
So. Men. Get out your rods and shove them through a hole and be happy. Satisfied. Be sure your rod is pretty, expensive, and adorned. They can even be gold plated by a rich fuck who has more money than frugality.
Whew. You guys are killn' me. This is like huge trucks raised four feet off the road surface but mostly operated on hard surface highways by drivers oblivious to the signal they clearly send. "I have a little, or no, penis, or if I do, no one wants it, or I'm afraid to offer it to anyone."
Anyway. Towers as monuments, rods, steeples, and domes illustrate man's need to impress upon another man his prowess; libido. Ego. Bucks rub trees and piss on a scrape. Humans build a big house, big gun, and drive a big Chevy 2500HD and a big John Deere.
Polish those rods now. Then polish those bores. Get the wife to watch. Its foreplay.
Or use a ten cent 36" x _" wooden stick to gently push a patch of flannel down the bore of a $600 barrel and clean it.