While some folks are passionate about cleaning guns, I hate it. Guns are for shooting and every shooter should have an interested teen-age son or daughter to do their cleaning for them. That’s part of growing up or should be. (It was for me.)
That does not mean I never clean my guns and in fact when I do clean them, I clean them good. The hardest part of the gun to clean is the bore because you are cleaning something you cannot see. It also requires the liberal use of solvents that sometimes smell like a dragon with bad breath. Additionally, the steel rod used to clean your bore, if not used properly, can damage the crown of your rifle; always clean from the chamber end.
While XS Sights is known for manufacturing some of the best combat sights on the market they also make some other things. This is because the folks who work at XS Sights are shooters and they have convinced the powers that be to use their precision manufacturing capabilities to make some useful things. One of those things is a bore-guide for cleaning the DPMS GII. The coolness of this tool is that it can also be used on any AR 15 chambered for cartridges between the 5.56 NATO (.223 Remington) and the .300 Blackout.
The XS Bore Guide for the GII is manufactured out of 6061 T6 aluminum and to use it you simply remove the bolt carrier and charging handle and insert it into the upper. It’s held in place by two rubber O-rings and has a convenient hole that is accessible through the ejection port. You can charge or lube your patch or cleaning brush with Ballistol through this hole. This keeps the dragon’s breath smelling solvents off your fingers and your firearm.
I hate cleaning guns so I relish any tool that makes it easier and less messy. You should too and you can order your GII Bore Guide direct from XS Sights for $ 40.00. Given its not made from plastic like some of those new age pistols, I expect it will last a lifetime.
