one thing i've heard is that nylon brushes tend to retain grit which may damage your chamber.
a bronze brush really shouldn't scratch a chromed or even a non-chromed chamber.
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one thing i've heard is that nylon brushes tend to retain grit which may damage your chamber.
a bronze brush really shouldn't scratch a chromed or even a non-chromed chamber.
And why would you use copper solvents in the chamber? :confused:
You aren't going to use Sweets in your chamber but you might use something like Butch's or Shooter's Choice. Both have small quantities of ammonia and work on copper, and as such, will attack bronze bore bristles over time.
The main reason people use these is twofold:
They last longer. Solvents don't attack them like they do a bronze brush and you'll never get a false positive with a nylon brush like you will with a bronze brush.
Secondly, they are very gentle on your barrel. So gentle in fact, that in my book they don't work all that well. They offer zero advantage for a chrome lined bore other than extended brush life. And while I don't own a match grade SS Krieger, if I did I might consider these, but I'd probably be more inclined to go with foaming bore care products and minimize my time running rods and jags up and down my match barrel.
They would be good to wrap a patch of JB over.
This sentiment has always puzzled me.
There are people out there that stress about brush material/ technique, yet they have no problem pressure-forging an oversized slug down the barrel with tens of thousands of PSI of hot gasses behind it, pushing the projectile three times the speed of sound against the bore.
Do these people actually shoot? If I worried about a brush going down the barrel, I'd just keep my guns in their cases.