I like the discussion comments for this video. I really like the Visine bottle suggestion. GI bottles tend to leak. I'll add my own. Years ago I made several; 5.56, 7.62, and 12 ga. packages, the first two in the VN era M16 pouch and mark them with the appropriate caliber in black . The AR/M16 is easy, GI lube, brush, rods (to the length of the barrel), tips, 6 patches, and reciever brush and a special tools I make to function like your pick tool -- but shorter (.22 casing, 2.5" piece of street sweeper spring steel found on the street epoxyed in the case). Later I added a bore snake to the pouch. I do not add a case extractor because I was trained to use the rod to push a stuck case out with a rod and saw this method used twice in VN. The rod and snake are almost duduplicate functions but I use the snake a couple times a day just as an SOP and the rod for a cleaning. For the 7.62, the same types of gear, a M14 handle if the weapon was a M1A otherwise a M1 handle even for boltguns. I simply put the GI pouches in the butt pack or admin pouch. For shotgun, the GI pouch won't work so I put the longer commercial aluminum rod segments kit in a butt pack with the associated other gear in a heavy duty zip lock. I find the shotguns get more stuff in the bore during a romp in the woods. By the way, after the MC, I have always carried a pistol (even hunting, I carry a 3" 5 shot ,357 Smith) so I added a caliber specific brush, rod and a few patches to the now packed pouch. I like the single M16 pouch idea. You could attach it more securely to a belt or harness. I will try it.This is an important discussion topic. Thanks for the video. it. Well worth watching. Semper Fi

Hey, its me again. LOL.....I use an eye glass case in a molle mag pouch, the eye glass case is one of those semi hard types with a zipper....My cleaning gear Rifle and Sidearm are in it with some patches and minor tools, I then wrap it up in in a diaper,,,,dyed a lite OD, then I put it in the eyeclass case then insert it into the molle mag pouch, but I usually carry the kit in either my buttpack or in a coat pocket, never on the outside of my webbing, it is just one of those necessary pieces of kit you never want to lose. Although I was thinking of upgrading mine, I liked your video as it gave me some neat ideas of m own...Later..." Semper Fi!"

Small zip lock bags make good containers for the bottles containing liquids, and double bagging works even better.

Love my fur babies too!

A common problem with ammo that has been reloaded too many times is case head separation. After a career in the Army, I've never seen an M16/AR15 suffer case head separation. Cases stuck in the chamber happened maybe five or six times, typically a rifle not maintained properly. I carry my old issue kit, usually inside the butt pack or inside my assault pack.

I think the bare minimum should be 1) cleaning rod for stuck cases 2) straight brush tip to clean bore and a chamber brush 3) toothbrush or similar 3) small rag or two to actually clean out the inside of the gun (thinner material is better since you can get into small crevices) 4) some paper towels. Keep them in a ziploc bag, if your gun is wet or muddy, you don’t want that on your cleaning rag.

Beside the bench supplies, every long gun has a support bag including a cleaning kit. For the field kit, automatic transmission fluid for cleaning and synthetic motor oil for lubrication and a ripcord. The pick is a good idea as is the extractor.

If proper chamber brushes aren’t available, a .45 brush fits a .308 chamber and a 9mm brush fits a 5.56 chamber.

Thought they carried the cleaning rods taped to the outside of the early M16’s because all they had were 1-piece rods (M-16 field cleaning kits hadn’t been issued yet). Also, don’t think the shell extractor would work for the early problems that were caused mainly by failure to extract the still intact brass from the corroded non-chrome-lined chambers.

more cats for the win! I've been sorting my cleaning kits recently. I've defaulted to the basic GI kit but just adding an otis ripcord and a remington squeegee for for my AR kits. I do like your idea of adding a dental pick and shell extractor

I expect no less than a 4 part series to identify the PERFECT pouch! :) Good stuff brother! Keep it up!

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I do tend to beat a subject to death.

Good fresh topic! Funny, I was just thinking of RKB and the SOF magazine (still published?) the other day after reading an article on the Rhodesian War. I've never found a bottle that doesn't ooze lube!

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outstanding marine,improvise,adapt,overcome....lol nice job...stay frosty brother

if you tape the muzzle and keep the ejectin port cover closed, you're not going to get enugh gunk in the gun to need cleaing when you know that you're going to low crawl with it, put it on your back. You can make a thin plastic for your rifle, seal it with tape and just tear off the bag when you need to fire. You wont survive needint to fire enough rounds to carbon-up the gun. this is especially true if you lack night sights, silencer, night vision, subonic ammo, armor and a tunnel to hide in. You've got to creat a couple of spideholes, 20m apart and scatter bury a year's supply of grains, powdered milk, sugar, Koolaid and salt there at your BOL. Walk beside a bicycle, at night and bring in the 100 lbs of oiive oil and nut-butters. If the terrain and vegetiation aren't bad you an tow another 50 lbs of stuff on a little trailer behind the bike. Pre dig a pit to hide the camo-paiited bike in, under a brush pile. Have a pit full of chemically treated split 4" OD loags, 2 ft long, so you can short up you 18"x18" tunnel. Dig ;tunnel from both ends about 3 ft per night, then you wont be killed by a cave in. Only have a foot thick layer of dirt over you. Only did at night, so nobody is likley to be able to make any souns you make and so you can move and hide the bags of excavated dirt. every foot of forward travel, drive a stake up thru the center of your ceiliing Go outside and see if the stake is near to touching the string you've tied between two stakes. that will keep your tunnels moving towards each other.

I believe I’ve heard you can swap out the Magpul bottle for a Visine bottle or other eye drop bottle. Keep up the great videos!

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...which makes me think others have had the same issue. i will try it! thanks.

Hey, I don't know if you'd be interested but I have a way to keep a lube bottle in A2 grips like the magpul ones. I'll post a video about it so I don't have to strain my poor little brain figuring out how to write. Good vid ren, thanks for the rag and extractor tip it's going to simplify my butt stock kit.

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also i dont mean to quelch that spite but the more birdie the better in my books

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i will be looking for the video, thanks!

wear nail sandals any time you're within 50m of your tunnel or caches. Come and go from different directions, so you dont beat down paths for enemies to notice. Leave the tunnel onl at night and only for an hour, to access a food bucket and cook a meal. tha first 90 days of food shoud not require cooking. 90 days in, the dogs will all have been eaten and you can then risk a cooking fire. and have food inside of your tunnel. You need survival info DOWNLOADEd onto a Kindle reader, replicated on another reader, with two solar charges. Sleep maks, ear plugs and sedatives will get you thru your first year. Then 99% will be dead and you can, (at night, tend you hidden plots of root veggies and peanuts.