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Plastic tips do have a problem with breaking off the rod and leaving the threaded shank stuck in the rod.
Nickel plated won't stand up to aggressive solvents and the plating will be stripped fairly soon.
Aluminum works okay, but I have seen a few of them broken off in the rod also.
Brass is best, and if you wipe it off before applying solvent to a patch, it won't have time to be attacked by a solvent and give a false indication of fouling.
I insert the rod and patch into the chamber, then use a plastic transfer pipette to apply a shot of solvent. Then the patch goes straight down the bore and out the end.
Buy pipettes made by Accu-Bore from Brownell's.
Whenever at all possible, clean from the chamber end, and don't "pump" patches up and down the bore.
You should put patches down the bore and out the muzzle in one easy, smooth pass.
Pumping a patch up and down the bore does nothing.
The Bore Tech tips may be the way to go.
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