How-to Videos
Otis offers a wide variety of cleaning products for a wide variety of firearms and firearm owners. If instruction manuals aren’t your cup of tea, check out our library of instructional videos. From the fundamentals of creating a proper size swab, to more detail such as using the B.O.N.E.® tool. Check out some of the top videos below or visit us at youtube.com/@otistechnology
Otis 3-Step Gun Cleaning Process
The Otis 3-step gun cleaning process—often summarized as "Wet Patch, Bore Brush, Dry Patch"—is designed to thoroughly clear carbon, copper, and lead fouling from a firearm's barrel. It uses Otis's signature Memory-Flex cable to clean from breech-to-muzzle to protect the barrel's crown.
The Otis 3-Step Gun Cleaning Method
- Wet Patch: Attach a slotted tip to the Memory-Flex cable, thread a patch onto it, and apply a few drops of gun solvent or CLP. Pull the patch through the bore from the breech to the muzzle to loosen fouling and wet the barrel.
- Bronze Brush: Replace the patch with the correctly sized bronze bore brush on your cable. Pass it through the bore (again, from breech-to-muzzle) to scrub away carbon, copper, and lead residue.
- Dry Patch: Switch back to the slotted tip with a clean, dry patch. Pull it through the barrel to remove the loosened debris and any remaining solvent. Note: You may need to repeat these three steps multiple times until a patch comes out completely clean. Why Breech-to-Muzzle? Unlike traditional rigid cleaning rods pushed from the muzzle end, Otis cables are pulled through from the chamber (breech) out toward the barrel tip. This method pushes all debris and dirty solvents out of the barrel rather than scraping them into the chamber, and protects the delicate rifling at the muzzle from being damaged by the cleaning too
How to Tie a Patch
Otis round gun cleaning patches are designed to provide a 360-degree cleaning swab. Made of 100% cotton, they are lint-free, absorbent, and engineered to be rotated multiple times so you get up to six fresh cleaning surfaces per patch.
Proprietary Tie Method: When properly threaded and "pinched" onto an Otis slotted tip, the patch transforms into a circular swab that uniformly scrubs the bore
Universal Compatibility: Otis patches clean a wide variety of calibers and are available in 2" (for .17 caliber - .223) 3" (for .243 to 12/10 Gauge Shotguns. Use the outer slots for .243 caliber and larger and the inner slots for .30 caliber and larger. For shotguns be sure to use the correct size Patch Saver. Panoply 3" are a thicker material designed for use on large calibers .30 caliber and up
How to Use Otis Ripcord
To use an Otis Ripcord on your unloaded firearm with the action open, you simply feed the narrow, threaded tip into the chamber and pull it completely out through the muzzle. Because it is wrapped in heat-resistant Nomex®, you can use it dry at the shooting range while the barrel is still hot to quickly clear out loose carbon.