When should I use a bore brush?
- Thread starter bristow84
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When cleaning it you may want first to spray the bore with something like G96, leave it for one minute, then pass the brush six, seven times. Spray again the bore with G96, leave it one minute and pass patches. When clean enough you may choose to spray the bore with just a little Rem oil or similar.
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- Niagara Region, Ontario. For now
Clean with patches until they come out clean.
Now try the bore brush, followed by another patch.
You may be surprised to find your barrel wasn't so clean with just patches.
Now try the bore brush, followed by another patch.
You may be surprised to find your barrel wasn't so clean with just patches.
Only thing I don't use brass on is some of my handguns with collector value that are 99% original. As over time he brass can take the blueing offst the muzzle and cylinders. For those I use nylon, for everything else there's brass
Any chance that brass brushes will damage the rifling over time ?
I know brass has been used for years for bore brushes...probably cause it works...but I'm a noob whose RPAL is still being processed so I haven't even bought a gun yet, let alone clean one....just seems like a metal brush would actually remove material over time.
(apologies to the OP..not trying to hijack your thread)
I know brass has been used for years for bore brushes...probably cause it works...but I'm a noob whose RPAL is still being processed so I haven't even bought a gun yet, let alone clean one....just seems like a metal brush would actually remove material over time.
(apologies to the OP..not trying to hijack your thread)
I use brass brushes all the time, pass those down the barrel a few times with hoppes no. 7 to loosen up a lot, leave it for a min or two, then pass the brush a couple more times then start to run patches until they come through clean.
No it will not, brass is much softer than barrel steel and chrome lined barrels are even harder. However I often see that long distance shooters do not use brass brushes in their rifles. Maybe it is just an urban legend of some sort
I tend to go with the idea that it's nice if the barrel cleans up with nothing more than patches. A light with a peek down the bore should see clean rifling and no signs of any dark or rough looking areas. If a few patches doesn't do this then I pull out the bore brushes.
There is some legitimacy to limiting the use of the brass brushes. Brass may be softer than steel but because it is the brass can pickup and hold bits of hard grit. This is the basis of metal lapping where a softer metal lap is "charged" with a hard grit to cut away at another metal which is harder than the soft metal of the lap. The way to avoid this is to store the bore brushes do they can't pick up any sort of grit or dirt. And it's not a bad idea to swish the brush around in some cleaning solvent or detergent and water to degrease it and hopefully flush away any grit that may be on it before you push it down the bore.
But a CLEAN bore brush? Not a problem.
There is some legitimacy to limiting the use of the brass brushes. Brass may be softer than steel but because it is the brass can pickup and hold bits of hard grit. This is the basis of metal lapping where a softer metal lap is "charged" with a hard grit to cut away at another metal which is harder than the soft metal of the lap. The way to avoid this is to store the bore brushes do they can't pick up any sort of grit or dirt. And it's not a bad idea to swish the brush around in some cleaning solvent or detergent and water to degrease it and hopefully flush away any grit that may be on it before you push it down the bore.
But a CLEAN bore brush? Not a problem.
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Wow, very interesting as Schueman says:
"My Personal Practice has become to never clean the bore of my barrels. I do use a brass rod
to scrape the deposits out of the chamber. But, I've learned to leave the bore alone and it very
slowly becomes shinier and cleaner all by itself. Years ago I occasionally scrubbed the bore with
a brass bore brush. But, doing so always seemed to cause the bore to revert to a dirtier look with
more shooting, so I eventually stopped ever putting anything down the bore except bullets..."
I'm kind of not comfortable with this approach. Maybe it's just hard to get rid of old habbits.
When I was shooting a lot of lead bullets I used to scrub out my chamber and bore regularly. I now shoot mainly plated or jacketed ammo and I don't think I've swabbed any of my handgun bores in about 3 years. I haven't noticed any difference in accuracy.
