Phosphor bronze or nylon barrel brush?

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JonJon

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During the break in period of shoot-clean, shoot-clean, etc., will the barrel end up cleaner with the bronze or nylon brush? Which brush should I use for subsequent cleanings?
 
IMHO. : The nylon brushes have considerably thicker bristles. It only stands to reason that the thiner bristles with equal or greater stiffness will do a better job of cleaning in the nooks and crannies of the grooves in the bore.
 
Bronze will clean the bore the best. As far as I am concerned, the only thing the nylon is good for is when I am using cleaners that contain ammonia, and the only time I use ammonia cleaners is when I have a lot of copper fouling. The high content ammonia cleaners break down or eat bronze brushes.I can highly recommend Shooters Choice as one of best bore cleaners. Sling Shot
 
Where the heck can you buy NYLON BRUSHES for a standard cleaning rod? I don't mean the off the walls like Pachmyer imports.

I use nylon brushes, exclusively on all my hand guns and whish I cound find the "off the stick" to put on a regular cleaning rod. NYLON does not ware the bore as badly and, for me cleans just as good.

I used a Sainless brush on a Ruger MK-II 22 pistol and it took the riflings out of it.
 
Not knocking you guys that think the nylon brushes clean better--but. Barrel material is a lot harder than a bronze brush, so it wearing out the barrel is hogwash. Not cleaning the right way is what wears out barrels,besides bullets, and ruins a crown of a barrel. I have experimented with cleaning with a nylon brush only in pistol and rifle barrels. I scrubbed the bore of my .308 rifle exclusively with a nylon brush with unfavorable results. After the initial scrubbing and rescrubbing, I started getting clean patches. I thought it was clean. Then I scrubbed the bore with a brand new .30 caliber bronze brush. Guess what? The bore was not clean. I pulled dirty patch after dirty patch out of it. I even had to scrub the bore again with the bronze brush, and patch again until it was clean. Use what you think is best for your gun, but I know for a fact that nylon brushes do not do the best job of scrubbing a bore.

Madison: Sinclair International

Sling Shot
 
The plastic brushes are just a replacement for the cotton mop tips, they will not clean the bore of a gun at all. Stainless steel works the best but just for a pass or two to remove the heavy copper. After pounding a slug down a bore with 60k psi behind it worying about a brush seems silly to me. What cleans with the less strokes to wear on the muzzle or the lands in the breach is best. The copper sol will melt the plastic brushes anyway.:)
 
"After pounding a slug down a bore with 60k psi behind it worying about a brush seems silly to me." a quote from radoms post. ................... I have to agree with you my friend. Also remember that the material that the bronze brushes are made out of is doggone near the same material that a gilding metal jacket on a bullet is made of. About the only difference is that I can't push a brush down the bore at + - 3000 fps. now maybe when I was about 17 or so ..................... naw. :D
 
MADISON; Stainless Steel brushes are a definite no-no for Blued Barrels, But you should be OK with Bronze.

Only use Stainless brushes on Stainless Barrels, and even then only if you have really bad Fouling.

Dave
 
For a barrel that has been severly neglected such as never cleaned and has heavy deposits of powder and copper, then the minimal use of a stainless brush would be ok in my opinion. But for cleaning a new barrel or maintaining a barrel, then the use of bronze brushes is best. JonJon, the topic starter, does not have a severly neglected barrel, but a new barrel that he needs broken-in, at least this is what I read into his statement, and he also wants the best brush to maintain that barrel. That is why I recommend a bronze brush, and its superior cleaning action over a nylon brush.
Sling Shot
 
Thanks for all the insightful help guys. I was thinking along the lines of Sling Shot by using bronze brushes with shooter's choice and the nylon with sweets, but I just wanted to make sure and do things properly from the get go:D
 
No stainless. NEVER.

Call Sinclair's, or another place that sells accuracy supplies, and order some benchrest brushes. No steel core, etc., and they work very well. Cost about $1 each, so don't worry about buying a whole dozen. While you're at it, get a jug of Butch's Bore Shine, and a bottle of Sweet's...

Clean before firing the first time.

3 wet patches, brush 10x with wet brush (clean brush afterward), 3 wet patches, dry patch, patch with Sweet's, and if you see blue/green, repeat cleaning process. Fire one shot. Repeat 5x. Repeat 5x with 3 shot groups. Repeat 6x with 5 shot groups.

Use a bore guide, or plan on throwing the barrel in the trash.
 
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