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Brass or Nylon bore brushes. What do you use. Thank You

Nylon, on the rare occasion that one is needed.

Same here.

Are you worried about a bronze brush damaging your barrel?

If you are NOT using bronze bristle brushes, carbon is building up in your barrel.


Clean patches do NOT equal a clean barrel!

Carbon will get so hard that it will not even show grey on a patch, must less black.

Teslong bore scope is the best money you can spend on your reloading/shooting career. Teslong will teach you to become an expert with your own cleaning technique/chemical choices.

Nylon for me

+1 . Nylon brush is easily replicated by using a quality patch along with quality cleaner

I would hope Mule Deer will chime in on this subject, especially in relation to a rifle that has been properly cleaned down to bare steel and then Dyna Bore coated.

I believe he has stated in the past that while the company used to say no phosphor bronze bore brushes they then said it was ok, their dyna bore coating could withstand it???
Of course they have no customer service/support anymore so you can't find out from them.

And as stated above bore scope is the way to go in accurately judging how clean your barrel is.

I don't know about stainless, but concerned about this very issue some years back, I took a scrap chrome-moly barrel, put it in a drill vise, chucked a cheap bronze brush (might have been an 'Outer's or Hoppes) and ran it dry for about 20 minutes 250 rpm on the barrels exterior where I could see and measure results. No measureable steel was displaced according to a mic reading to 10,000ths. The brush of course, was toast. This was not a surprise considering the Moh's Scale commonly lists brass and bronze at 3...and steel (unspecified ASTM grade) as 4 to 4.5. So then I got another brush, made a paste of carbon powder and Shooters Choice and spun it for a similar time...again, no measureable metal displaced but gave the surface a high gloss shine. What did I prove? Probably nothing, but I quit worrying about brushes.

I use Bore Tech carbon remover followed by their copper remover or their Eliminator. I also have a bore scope.

Being patient and letting the chemicals do their job is the key. Patches work fine, either home made or purchased, if you let the cleaners do their thing. No need for brushing 99% of the time

I always use a bore guide too.

Nylon brushes are a waste of time, they don’t remove anything from a barrel.

A Teslong bore scope has proven to my satisfaction that there is little to no need for brushes when using WipeOut.

LMAO. No customer service or support for over 2 years now. Snake oil.

Personal experience, Tubbs final finish won’t even touch that sheit. Maybe diamond embedded bullets would. It be permanent. Brush away to hell and back.

LMAO even harder than you Swifty. The ONLY guy on the Campfire who wasn't capable of installing Dyna Bore Coat properly in his barrel(s). No one else has had anything less than stellar results with it.
No one pays any attention to your comments concerning Dyna Bore Coat so why don't you just stop posting about it, everyone knows you are a hater.

As to stainless brushes, it is a well kept secret that some of the best gunsmiths initiate the rebore process for barrels by making a few passes with increasingly larger brushes until the desired diameter is reached.

As if I give a fook what azzwipes like you think. He asked how hard it was and I told him. So slither back under your rock. Also try to add something worthwhile except excess flatulence out of your mouth.

Evey time you opn your mouth on this subject, you prove what an ignorant and nasty POS you are.

This thread had nothing to do with dyna bore coat, it's about brushes, I simply asked Mule Deer about something I thought he has said, but of course YOU can't resist ANY opportunity to bash it.

You must be proud, you are the only person and the campfire who can't install it in your rifle properly.

Take a thread and fugg it up because you are a hater.

You must be a stinking liberal democrat.

And I'm not the one that needs to crawl back under his rock AZZHOLE !!!!!!

I think you’re onto something here…😜

Bronze brushes on guns without Borecoat, nylon brushes for those that have it. That’s worked so far for me.

Generations of shooters used bronze brushes, never heard of one damaging a bore.