Brass Wire Bristles & 58 Remmy

[kflach]

I seem to recall reading somewhere that you shouldn't use the brass wire bristles jag brush for cleaning out your bore. My Bore Snake came in the mail yesterday and part of it has brass wire bristles sticking out of it. Is my memory failing me (and brass wire bristles are actually OK to use) or should I send my Bore Snake back and look for a model that doesn't have the bristles built into it?

This is what happens when there's too much info to sift through. My dad warned me to expect it as I grow older. Sigh...

[Oldfalguy]

I just don't know about using brass because about all I use is bronze- regardless of type of weapon. Given that I think your fine using your boresnake but use it from the breech end
Seems bronze would last a good bit longer than brass and is softer than stainless which might cause a little bit of extra wear

[kflach]

My bad! I meant the bristles are bronze.

[Fingers McGee]

Bronze bristled brushed are perfectly alright to use. SS ones are ok too; just not all the time.

[kflach]

Thanks ya'll!

[mykeal]

The caution against using brass (or bronze or copper or even steel) brushes in a bp gun bore is really about single shot (closed breech) rifles and pistols. The brush will follow the rifling and take a set against reversing at the bottom of the barrel; they can be quite challenging to remove in that case. This is not the case with revolvers as the brush can go completely through the barrel and then be pulled back through.

[Hawg Haggen]

SS ones are ok too; just not all the time.

I don't think I want to put anything down my bore that's harder than the bore is.

[AdmiralB]

I don't think I want to put anything down my bore that's harder than the bore is.

I agree with this. No chance of leading in a percussion revolver...the bullets just don't go fast enough. I use nylon brushes.

Rifles are a different story, though.

[Smokin_Gun]

I jus' use the black straight stiff bottle brushes and the soft white cone shaped bottle brushes made of nylon..

[mykeal]

Why use a brush at all?

It's all water soluble.

[Smokin_Gun]

Cause ya still gotta lightly scrub the lube and char residue off ... give me a break I have to buy SUN liquid dish soap $.99 a bottle :O)
You could use a few patches instead, but why not scrub? (Nylon)

[K.A.T.]

If you use the bronze bore brushes leave it loose on the cleaning rod so it can turn and follow the rifleing in the bore, instead of jumping over the lands. It will scratch the lands in the barrel if you don't leave it loose so it can turn, I've done it in the past and seen the scratches in the barrel.

[Hawg Haggen]

I don't normally use brushes, just a patch on a jag but I recently found out a bore mop works almost as well. I really don't see bronze scratching steel no matter how soft the steel may be. Barrel steel is relatively soft, even for hi powered smokeless rifles and I can see SS scratching it very easily.

[greywalker]

K.A.T. I have to respectfully disagree with the idea of bronze scratching steel- that has to be one helluva brush you have there, could it have been bronze left behind you were seeing, kinda like when you scratch a penny on a bit of harder metal?