[billy]

so do you bring your entire cleaning setup to the range with you?
vise and all?

do you only push your brush through one way and discard at the end of each stroke then put a new one on?

[lefty o]

that gray box holds 90% of my cleaning gear, and my rod is inletted into the foam on my rifle case. so yeah, if im going to be doing alot of shooting the cleaning equipment comes with me.

[billy]

nice setup!
how many brushes do you go through in a single cleaning?

since you dont want to drag that dirt back into the bbl.

[lefty o]

i only use brushes on my mil-surps. used to go thru alot of patches though. in the last 2 years, ive been using outers foaming bore cleaner. spray it in and let it sit a while, then run a patch thru, repeat 2 or 3 times. comes out very clean. for a fast cleaning its butchs bore shine on a patch, let soak a couple of minutes, then a few clean patches. after using the faoming bore cleaner, even sweets 7.62 wont take any copper out of the barrel.

[Coeloptera]

I and my wife clean every time we shoot. We use brass brushes shaped in a spiral pattern for the pistols and a more cylindrical one for the shotgun bore.

We find that the typical cleaning kit chemicals seem to be fine. Then we oil and wipe the excess oil off with the same type of patches we use to clean after the brushes.

Also, I purchase toothbrush-shaped brass brushes with wooden handles, like you'd use to clean the small spaces on a grill, to really get into the tough to reach areas on my revolver, like the cylinder face, the ports on the barrel (they get dirty), and around the forcing cone. I've worn out brushes already and the steel still looks beautiful. They cost next to nothing and you can get them anywhere. I've been pleased with the results and when they're worn out, I have little wooden handles for projects.

- Coeloptera