Track's Bore Light?

[Bountyhunter]

I did a quick search and didnt come up with anything that looked productive.

Have any of you tried TOW's little brass bore light?

If you have, were you satisfied with it?

B

 

[jtmattison]

I have one identicle to it. Mine has a green LED.
I wish it had a white LED but other than that I am happy with it. It lights up a 32 inch barrel no problem.

HD

 

[BS]

I have a 'Tek Torche' v-16 model from Cabela's with a white light...........it is long and skinny, and works quite well. About $13.

 

[bob1961]

i use a doctors penlight light to shine in the flash hole to see my bore....or i roll a ball that i would shoot down the bore with the light to see everything.............bob

 

[Bookie]

The cheapest way to buy a bore light is to buy one of the small lights that illuminate a fishing bobber. They are just a couple of bucks and last a very long time. Cheers, Bookie

 

[Bountyhunter]

Does a colored light have any advantage over a white light, or should I say a white light over a colored light? I would think that a white light would be better, but it seems all the dozen or so lights advertized here and there are either green or red or orange.

I have one of those little crooked orange sticks from an old gun cleaning kit that is intended to run light up the barrel of a ctg. gun with an open breech. It doesnt however work very good trying to see down a yard of ML barrel.

 

[jgunn286]

I don't know if it is the same product, but I have one that I got from Cabelas years ago that is brass with a red LED. To turn it on you use the long end of the bottom screw fitting as oppossed to the short end which doesn't contact the battery. I don't know if the color matters as all the gunk shows up a darker shade than a clean shiny bore. In any case if the patch comes out clean I usually can't find any gunk in the bore. :haha:

 

[cj5luke]

I've found white, red, and yellow to be a bit too intense, the green works best for me. These should all be available in those little bobber lights... just look for the replacement packages (about $2.75 around here). They say up to 24 hours of life but when you consider you're using it for less than a minute that's a long time! You can get them at Cabela's, Gander Mountain, or any other sporting goods store. They're small enough to fit down a .22 caliber bore and bright enough to light up the darkest pit!

 

[WRussell]

If you have a mini mag lite, the bulb is a tiny guy with two leads sticking straight out the bottom. Find a piece of wire close to the same size that you can stick into the body instead of the bulb, and you can add an "extension cord" - any small wire pair - to get the bulb down into as deep a hole as you want. They are pretty bright. Use old batteries? Paint the bulb? Wrap it with masking tape? Stick a resistor in series?