Cleaning Question: how many of you use a bronze brush?

[Lou629]

I have always used the bronze brush followed by patches & H9 solvent. Been doing it that way for decades, and always seems to work fine. One little trick i learned was this:
After you're sure the barrel is about as clean as can be, take an old brush and wrap a clean dry patch around it. Run same thru the barrel. You will be amazed at the amount of additional crap that can be gotten out of what appears to be a spotlessly clean barrel this way.

 

[Still 2 Many Choices!?]

YMMV,

Bronze bore brushes only get used on rifles with chrome lined bore, and chamber...Pistols, NEVER!

 

[evan price]

I use a bronze toothbrush when I clean around the forcing cone, the ends of the cylinder, and they work great for cleaning the back of the frame where the firing pin comes out. All of my wheelguns are so far stainless and I have never had a problem with bronze toothbrushes. For barrels I use one of those stainless steel brushes that has no bristles...I don't know what they call them but they are coiled not cut. Takes the lead right out. Has so far not hurt the barrel at all. I use bronze bore brushes on my semis and occaisional bronze toothbrush on rear of chamber, feed ramp area, etc. where the crud collects. I always wet a brush with some #9 or else some teflon oil (like Triflow) before using it.
Oh yeah, what somebody else said about watching out for loose bristle pieces. They can get loose and get places you don't want them to be.

However the best way I have found to clear lead fouling is to make sure that when I am firing lead ammo like reloads, the last magazine or cylinder I fire is factory jacketed ammo. The jacketed ammo blows the lead out of the barrel, A+ job.

 

[ajax]

Evan I believe they call those cyclone or tornado brushes. I only use those on my smooth bore barrels but they work well. For you guys that like tooth brushes you should try those cheap battery operated tooth brushes they work pretty good to.

 

[Werewolf]

Cyclone is what I've always called them and I only use them on my shotgun or a 20ga one in my Saiga Gas Tube.

I use a bronze tooth brush on the forcing cone of all my revolvers and consequently have never experienced the build up of crud that I've seen on others. Bronze brush on forcing cone works great.

 

[Tigerseye]

I have used a bronze "toothbrush" on the breechface as a field expediency to get the extractor notch cleaned out.

I routinely use a bronze brush in the bores of my guns (except .22 rimfire) and none of them show any sign of wear.

 

[SSN Vet]

can't seem to get it clean any other way....

A bronze brush with nitro solvent (Hoppes or Outers) is the only way I've found to take the powder stains of the stainless breach face on my autoloader. I gave up on Q-tips and go straight to the brush on the areas known to be difficult.

I mostly shoot Winchester white box ($0.12/round in 9mm ). It's cheap to shoot, but man is it dirty .

 

[Sylvan-Forge]

Known as "The Gunsmith's Brush," the Tornado brush has a special spiral-wound design that's highly effective for cleaning bores. The stainless steel loops eliminate any bristle ends that could leave scratches, yet removes fouling without damaging bore.

http://www.hoppes.com/srchresults.asp?catky=9946092&subcatky=4548785&subcatky2=2000162