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One thing I learned a few years ago and stuck with, when I have a revolver that needs cleaning I use a soaking penetrant oil like carb cleaner (been using a "P-Blaster" brand for a while now).
Just spray it down real good, put it down on a towel and go have dinner. After dinner, or even better tomorrow morning, the crud will lift right off.
I haven't tried it with other brands, but PBlaster doesn't do any identifiable harm to soft rubber grips either.
So for most of my guns I go this way, spray, soak, patches. Once I have mostly clean metal with no visible crud in the bore but maybe still a little gray/black on the patches, then dry patches, then a patch with a shot of gun oil on it. Wipe the outside dry, then go over the outside with the pily patch that has already been down the bore, done.
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