ORIGINAL: wayomic
Those crown things are to protect the rifling at the muzzle as you pass the rod into the barrel when cleaning from that end. Not the best way to go though.
Yes very true, but when cleaning a lever action, semi auto or pump rifle you have no choice unless you take the whole rifle apart and I’m not sure if you still can take the barrel off from the action, and if so that sure would be allot of work to clean a barrel...