I remember the salty old curmudgeon who ran the LGS when I was a kid (he'd be around 113 years old now) state that the best damned cleaning rod was a glass-hard polished steel one. Grit wouldn't adhere to it and it wouldn't flex in the bore to rub the rifling. Made sense back then, and still kinda makes sense, but I never followed through on his advice. Anyone here use something like that?
It's an axiom that when two substances rub together the harder one will show wear not the softer one. May apply to cleaning rods too, I don't know.
