Mr. Tettnanger
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Bore snake and patches. If I can keep from peening my rifling, I do so by not using a brush unless its nylon. I don't use copper brushes, ever.
Don't Boresnakes have copper bristles?
Bore snake and patches. If I can keep from peening my rifling, I do so by not using a brush unless its nylon. I don't use copper brushes, ever.
is washable and doesn't harm my rifling.
Because you've never "seen" it.A brush harming your rifling? Ive been cleaning barrels for over 35yrs with brushes and never seen such a thing.
Seems fine to me. Less destructive to my bore anyway.No bore snakes. VFG pellets, your cleaner of choice and peice of weedeater line, .095 line with one end mushroomed to slide thru one pellets and pull it thru the bore. Simple and easy to carry to the woods or range. No bore damage ether. Nylon brush for the chamber only anymore.
Bore snake users would be very suprised how baddly those things work.
My primary reaction to Boresnake vs patches is rather like my reaction to handkerchiefs vs paper tissues: why save and reapply the crud?
Because you've never "seen" it.
I use a boresnake 9 times out of 10. It's quick, simple, and effective. If the boresnake doesn't cut it, I'll just use a cleaning rod. No use comparing the two... they're for different things.
Pics? No. But a smith friend, name withheld but from a small town in Macon County Missouri showed my father and I the barrel of a 22-250 that had been cleaned frequently with copper brushes exclusively with something called a Zoom a scope or bore scope...anywho, it was amazing! The edges of the lands where they were supposed to be a crisp corner were actually radiused, which he said was accuracy robbing. Barrel was steel, blued, on a bolt rifle that I believe was a Savage. One mustn't forget possible crown damage.True enough.
What kind of barrel/gun was damaged by a brush that you seen first hand? Got Pics?