RWS .177 Cleaning Reviews

Great for a quick cleaning between the more through cleaning with a cleaning kit. Recovered cleaning pellet showed signs of the dirt it swabbed out of the bore.

Not a substitute for a through cleaning.

Easy to load, shoot, and clean barrel; Made in the USA

These RWS cleaning pellets work just fine. The pellets are consistent in size and shape, and fit snugly in the chamber of my air pistol, but without having to squeeze them smaller or use much force to load them - as with another brand I've used.

The packaging is good, but because it opens completely, it is possible to have all the pellets tumble out. Some sort of single-feed packaging, along the lines of a Tic Tac mints dispenser, would be a big improvement, in my opinion.

It's important to remember that, even though these cleaning pellets are very light and considerably less powerful than lead pellets, keeping your muzzle pointed in a safe direction, and wearing eye protection are a must when cleaning your airgun's barrel.

Did not work

Make it go through barrels without unraveling and cleaning.

Use Beeman pellets. I am hoping Pyramydair carries them.

It cleans the barrel well.

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When you clean your barrel regularly then you will get good accuracy.

cleaned the barrel very nicely

Bice and easy to clean your air gun barrels.

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works great

Works good enough.

A little over priced.

If your rifle has a suppressor like my Umarex Octane then you can't simply run one of these cleaning pellets through the barrel because the pellet will fall into the suppressor and never be seen again, maybe. I know this because it happened to me and I tried retrieving the lost pellet with no success. Here is what I did to keep it from happening again. I took a 2"x 6" piece of paper, rolled it up and inserted it inside the suppressor until I felt it touch the barrel. I let go of the paper allowing it expand and grip the inside of the suppressor. Now the pellets will fall through the paper tube and not into the suppressor. It worked better than I thought it would.

Nothing. I put one down the barrel of my Octane from the breach using a cleaning rod and it disappeared. I assume that it is somewhere in the noise suppressor. Although I have shot the gun since then with no apparent ill effects, I don't know if it is still in the suppressor or what or if it will ever cause a problem.

Tell people who have suppressors on their guns that the suppressor will eat the pellet.

Haven't got to use them as of yet, but I like the fact that I can wet them down with solvent and push them through the barrel without having too push a wire brush cleaner through..

Pellet gun cleaning made easy.

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Shoot a couple of these through my Umarex Fusion every 500 or so shots.

Easy to load and shoot, or push, through bore.

This is a good cleaning product.

Your other choice is the Beeman cleaning pellet. While both work as advertised, the RWS is infinitely easier to load into a tight breach.

Besides working well for cleaning your barrel, they also are a hoot shooting little plastic toy soldiers in my hallway with 4 pumps in my M4-177. Fun stuff!

Nothing, they are what they are... a felt pellet.

Seem to work just as advertized.

these cleaning pellets are a great idea. in my oppinion using a cleaning rod on a pellet air rifle would increase the chance of damage to the lands in the air gun's bore.These felt pellets get the job done!

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Real handy for cleaning.

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Don't shoot them, yer supposed to push a couple through the breech.

They work as intended, soak them in bore cleaner and push them down the barrel.

Bit of a tight fit, can be difficult if you have a gun with a small breach.

They do a good job and are easier than fussing with rod and a cleaning patch. They work great.

Perhaps some sort of cleaning solvent could be impregnated or come with them?

I take off the barrel of my Walther CP88 and push them through with a brass cleaning rod from the breech end and out through the muzzle. The rod fits right in the center, leaving a ring of the white pellet all around. Be VERY gentle and be sure not to gouge the rifling.

seems to work great.

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Work well. Cleans the lead deposits, etc.

RWS doesn't recommend shooting them to clean the barrel. They don't really say you can't, but don't recommend.

Everything.

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I am not sure how I "lived" without these !!