What is this ?

[Karl Ferguson]

This was one of the cleaning rod attachments that was in my English Leather case.

Anyone know what it's called and what it would be used for ? Thanks

[Dan Steingraber]

Appears to be a threading tool of some sort.

[Rick Losey]

i think its a jag to mount to a cleaning rod

the left side (top picture) attaches to the rod

the right is designed to hold a patch while scrubbing the bore - notice those are not threads on that end

[Karl Ferguson]

i think its a jag to mount to a cleaning rod

the left side (top picture) attaches to the rod

the right is designed to hold a patch while scrubbing the bore - notice those are not threads on that end


That's kinda what I was thinking but wasn't positive... It screws onto the cleaning rod like the other attachments but the other jag I have is split all the way thru the head so you can slide a patch thru it. Thanks

[Jack Kuzepski]

The jag shown is not so much for a patch but for what the Brits call tow, a straw like material. The other jag mentioned with the split can be made of brass, nylon and like one I have is a brass base with a horn body. They are called a split jag and are made for putting an oblong patch in the slit and wrapping it around the body of the jag.

[Mark Riessen]

If you have access to old Double Gun Journals, try Vol.5 Is. 1 Spring 1994, page 31. There is a picture of one in a complete ' set up '. M

[Kevin McCormack]

It is a split end jag for use with excelsior (frittered shavings of strawlike material) in cleaning the barrels after usual solvent rinse and clean patch run-through. Up until the time "bubble pack", foam, and packing "peanuts" came into common use, excelsior was the packing material of choice for fragile items like Christmas ball, glass target balls, crystal and expensive glassware.

[Rick Losey]

Tow is the by product of flax processing into linen

It’s the rougher outer material. It was used in colonial day to make cloth for some worker’s clothing- sort of like a dense burlap. I had a set of knee breeches and a shirt made of it when I did 18th century re-enactments

I also carried a bit of raw tow in my bag for cleaning- I was at a local living history museum one day when they were spinning and weaving linen. They were piling the tow to the side and when I asked what they were going to do with it- they told me take it. So I did - our whole unit had all they could use. After cleaning a bore, let it dry and you have tinder for your fire

[Kenneth V Jones]

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