Let us know how you like it.My Tactical Advantage came today, brushes should be here soon. Maybe I could clean my old Mini 14 barrel with it. It hasn't been cleaned thoroughly in awhile.
Regards,
hps
Let us know how you like it.My Tactical Advantage came today, brushes should be here soon. Maybe I could clean my old Mini 14 barrel with it. It hasn't been cleaned thoroughly in awhile.
I've found nylon brushes to be utterly worthless. I don't know a single competition shooter who uses them. I use nothing but bronze brushes.
Not to hijack this thread or get off subject, but has anyone written a history of gun bore cleaning solvents? I have been shooting for 50+ years, and Hoppe's #9 has always been the go-to bore cleaning solvent, but I've become a convert for products like Bore Tech Eliminator and Bore Tech CU+2. Recent acquisition of a borescope revealed that Hoppe's was really not getting my gun bores clean (that borescope has created a lot of work for me). So, it leaves me wondering when some of the current-day cleaners came along, and how long have I been cleaning without being aware of these? I read an article that indicated that Ed Harris came up with his Ed's Red formula around 1991. So, if anyone has a history of gun bore cleaners, I think it would be an interesting read.
Now, getting back to the title of this post, I switched to using nylon bore brushes when I switched to using the Bore Tech products. That's what they recommend, and from experience I found that the Bore Tech products (especially CU+2) will plum eat up a bronze bore brush. Any cleaner targeted to removing copper would do the same. That should be no surprise as copper is the main ingredient in bronze, and copper removal is more of a chemical dissolving process than brute force and awkwardness process. In a cleaning project I'm currently doing on a 6mm Remington rifle that had seen nothing by Hoppe's for its entire life and may have 2,000 rounds through it, I discovered a lot of copper (which CU+2 readily removed) and some hard, baked-on carbon in the area a few inches ahead of the chamber that Bore Tech Eliminator would not touch. After doing some online research, I found reference to folks using Sea Foam, an automotive motor treatment product, so I decided to try. It really, really gets to that hard, baked-on carbon, but it's still a slow process for a rifle that has 50+ years of carbon build-up in it. For the Seam Foam and hard carbon removal process I use a bronze bore brush.
I think that for most of us, of a certain vintage, were hooked on Hoppe's . Only with the advent of the borescope did we realize it was not 100% up to the task
No truer words were ever spoken. I was a Hoppes fan forever. For copper I'd get out the Butches or Shooter Choice MC7. I thought I was getting things clean, knowing full well they were probably not perfect. Now, with a borescope in hand I wish I had never seen a borescope. I've had to get all new Iosso brushes, Bore Tech Eliminator, etc. I still have baked on carbon, but I can see myself making some headway. I'm not convinced on what works better right now. It could be technique vs which chemical.
-Jeff
Are you saying the nylon brush does adequately clean? That nylon does not completely remove lead, etc from the barrel ?
Are you saying the nylon brush does adequately clean? That nylon does not completely remove lead, etc from the barrel ?
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...
(that borescope has created a lot of work for me).