Best cleaning patches and why?

[weapontex]

Hey guys. Want to get a general consensus of which brand of patches you're using to clean and your reasoning behind them. Sure it may seem trivial, but everyone has their preference and for a reason. Gotta keep your babies pristine right?

[OCRebote78]

The Outers ones are cool and they're cotton. Others I've tried leave a lot of fibers on my firearms.

[Vacaville]

I always thought they were pretty much the same.

[Red-Osier]

Boresnake's are cool too.

[Jimmy's]

Old tee shirts, work great and they are FREE and plentiful.

[Maht_g]

I bought a package of 2000 hoppes shotgun patches ( 2"x2") for I think $8 delivered on eBay a couple years ago. I cut them into 4ths for pistol cleaning... will last my lifetime probably... no problems with linting...

[OpenSightsOnly]

Dewey patches!

Or you can go to a fabric store and buy a yard of flannel if you want to custom cut your own patch

[Barbarosa]

+1 for old T-shirts; cut them to size.

[Wordupmybrotha]

Just like people mentioned, I use old cotton t-shirts for big areas.
For the the bore, I use Hoppe's.
For commercial patches, Hoppe's hands down. The Outers patches are horrible, because it sheds and falls apart. The Hoppe's stays intact while grabbing the gunk off the gun.

[jarhead714]

The ones that are the right size seem to work best.

[NIKSD]

First you receive sheets /bedding/
Sheets become foot wrappings
Foot wrappings become rags
Rags become gun cleaning patches

This was working really well when I was in the army /not the USA one/. Try this at hone. Do not tell your wife about it unless you take cover first!!!

[weapontex]

Thanks guys. Guess I'll conduct a mini-experiment and compare t-shirts, outers, hoppes and bed sheet! Do old socks count?

[NIKSD]

Thanks guys. Guess I'll conduct a mini-experiment and compare t-shirts, outers, hoppes and bed sheet! Do old socks count?

Old socks should be washed first, sweat on them contain salt... LOL!

[kmas]

I bought a package of 2000 hoppes shotgun patches ( 2"x2") for I think $8 delivered on eBay a couple years ago. I cut them into 4ths for pistol cleaning... will last my lifetime probably... no problems with linting...

Yes, these worked well and did a better job than some smaller ones sold for pistols

[ElDub1950]

The best ones are the cheapest ones on the shelf when I remember I need more patches. Such a trivial thing.