I have heard many different ways to clean your firearm. I personally use a brass brush every time I shoot them. I have heard of a lot of people say they only use a brush every 2 or 3 times they shoot. They say it's because they don't want to wear out the rifling. So my question is to use a brass brush every time or every 2 to 3 times. I would think that the rifling would out live me.
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Remember Pontiac, a cleaning brush or bore snake is made of a much softer material then the steel of or in a barrel. How many times you used a nylon brush or brass brush on your car,truck or motorcycle rims to get the dirt, grime or break gunk off of them?
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Last edited by GlockMeister; 03-30-2008 at 02:13 AM.
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boresnakes are good, if you wash it thoroughly after every single time it is pulled thru the bore. otherwise, your just dragging crap right back thru the barrel.
I only use a brush when the gunk gets extreme, otherwise a few patches with a good bore cleaner is all you need. Swab it til it's wet, let sit a few minutes, then swab out til it's shiney.
A good bore cleaner with ammonia will kill the corrosive primer salts, and remove fouling, copper, etc.
Then follow up with a good oil for storage.
It doesn't take long - I generally do it while at the range, before packing up and leaving.
if you use a boresnake, you really need to clean it after every single pass through the bore. otherwise, you are just dragging dirt, and abrasive crud back through the barrel.
I would think that the bore snake, wet with a little solvent and kept in a baggie is an efficient quickie way to clean bore and cylinders as you leave the range. Once home, you can get a little more intense with patches, rods and brushes, and then a lite slap of REM
I have heard many different ways to clean your firearm. I personally use a brass brush every time I shoot them. I have heard of a lot of people say they only use a brush every 2 or 3 times they shoot. They say it's because they don't want to wear out the rifling. So my question is to use a brass brush every time or every 2 to 3 times. I would think that the rifling would out live me.
I have heard a couple different times,,,,that a few have used a borescope, and checked the bore and found that brass brushes leave scratches. I haven't tried this myself, as I don't have access to a borescope, so I can't whether it does or not. I do know my one "smiths" said don't use brass, but rather phosporous bronze brush????
I personally don't use any just to be on the safe side, but then most all my barrels but 2, are lapped and don't hold on the copper and crud that tough. One of the 2 is that isn't lapped and just a little "rougher" I just let soak after wet patches longer, eventually it lifts all the fouling.
And then also, I only clean my barrels when accuracy starts falling off. On the non lapped barrel, it runs about 75 rounds for one, about 200+ for the other. The lapped barrels depending on steel and maker, run 3-400 maybe a tad more rounds.
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brass or bronze are softer than steel.
but i still use a very stiff plastic brush.
i have never had luck using a conical boreguide.
they seem like a P.I.T.A. waste of time.
i just do it very carefully.
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boresnakes are good, if you wash it thoroughly after every single time it is pulled thru the bore. otherwise, your just dragging crap right back thru the barrel.
i use mine to loosen carbon after strings of shots.
the tail end of that snake is still pretty darn clean after 1 or 2 passes.
it's gotta be better than bouncing a metal rod off of your crown.
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Last edited by billy; 04-11-2008 at 09:36 PM.
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yeah, the tail may be clean, but the rest of it is dragging dirt, and fouling right back through the bore. doesnt take much to scratch the bore. i look at it this way, i can recrown a barrel, i cant cut new rifling.
