Bronze or Nylon Bore Brushes

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I am sure this has been covered before, and I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this question. Which do you prefer bronze or nylon bore brushes. Which is better, or is it personal preference. Also when I clean with bronze brushes & copper solvent, it seems that copper solvent attacks the bronze and adds to
the amount of copper fouling on patches. Is there any truth to this, and if so how do you know when it is copper not bronze fouling that is being removed. It seems to me that bronze brushes make the bore seem more fouled that it actually is. Lastly, if the bronze adds to fouling on patches, how do you know when the bore is actually clean of actual copper fouling.
 
Bronze brushes work great. They will break down with solvent if the solvent stays on them. Use a good bronze brush to agitate and break up fouling in the bore and then give it a spray of brake cleaner to clean, continue with the rest of the cleaning and patching.
 
I use bronze and also use a bore guide that protects the chamber from the rod. Bronze brushes should not damage a hardened steel barrel.
 
I use bronze brushes with powder solvent and nylon brushes with copper solvent. If you use copper solvent with a bronze brush you will never know when the copper has been removed as it will dissolve copper from the bronze brush.
 
I use the Gunslick foaming bore cleaner, spray it out with a spray "gun scrubber", followed by a couple of clean patches. If I still have residue, I do the whole sequence over again. Typically, 1 application of the foaming bore cleaner does the job.

Ditto on the post below. I picked gunslick because it was handy at Academy. I am always worried about nicking or scratching the bore throat.
 
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I use a different foaming bore cleaner (Wipe-Out) and patches only. No brushes anymore.

I think that the less I run a cleaning rod through the bore (no matter whether it's a brush, or a jag) the better.
 
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Nylon, as long as you get the stiff type such as the blue bristled Frankford Arsenal ones from Midway. The others have wimpy bristles IMHO & experience.

The bronze ones can give false copper readings when cleaning even if you soak & clean them between uses.
 
I agree RGPM1A, I am going to do the same. Bronze for powder and nylon for copper solvents. You are right, you never know when the bore is clean when using a bronze brush to remove copper fouling.
 
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