No. 9 Gun Cleaning Patch, .38-.45 Caliber/.410-20-Guage (500 Pack)

Good quality and cheap to buy lots

Nettoient les canons rayés en profondeur

Works as it should. Authentic.

Léger en dimension pour du cal 45 ACP.

I've been a Hoppe's fan for decades, and I recently purchased one of their cleaning kits at a good price, and am pleased with it except for the patches. I immediately noticed that those patches are not the same quality construction as the those I used to buy. (So, after that experience, why did he buy more patches? Some folks just don't learn on the first or second tries, I guess.) First, a relatively sparse number of patches was contained in the cleaning kit I purchased. Second, having moved within the past year, I didn't feel like going through additional boxes of "stuff" in an effort to locate some older patches I have on hand, somewhere. Third, I wanted to see if the patches Hoppe's sells "at large" were better quality that those which came in the kit. I am happy to report that these patches do appear to be a superior quality to those housed in the cleaning kit. And while these are acceptable in every way, they unfortunately do not equal the Hoppe's patches I remember and to which I refer as "old school." Somewhere along the line Hoppe's evidently "thinned down" their patches of yesteryear. Either that or my aging brain simply remembers the old ones being thicker and more absorbent (?). (Heck, maybe I'm confusing patches with bandages.) For all I know, these patches are the norm for the current generation of sportspersons who may have never used any contained within the iconic dark green metal gun cleaning kits once offered by Hoppe's. If I ever do finish unpacking, I'll come across some of those older patches. Only then will I be able to compare them, "apples to apples." If this happens in a relatively brief period of time, I will update this review. In the meantime, the patches offered here are completely acceptable and are offered at a fair market price.