You don’t see this too often...

[Ole_270]

I tend to clean with Ed's Red or one of the carbon removers till I've got the powder and carbon under control, then fill the barrel with Wipe Out foam and leave it overnight. Next morning, push a couple patched through and marvel at the amount of blue pudding that comes out. Then a couple more carbon cleaner patches, brake cleaner patch to remove the cleaner, dry patch, and wipe out again. Lay it down 180 degrees from the first time.. Anything this doesn't get clean was really in bad shape.
I've got Sweats, CR-10, Butchs, Montana Extreme, Wipe out Patch Out, and Bore Tech Eliminator on the bench, I use more of the foam than anything of them, but Eliminator has caught my attention.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Me too. I run a few Butches soaked patches. Then brush then Butches. Then dry and THEN couple soaked SWEETS patches. Usually allowing to sit five to ten minutes. i dont like to brush when using sweets cause it EATS BRUSHES FAST!!

CW

 

[Ian]

Use Nylon.

 

[462]

When using Montana X-Treme Copper Killer, I use Nylon brushes, but question their scrubbing effectiveness versus brass/bronze brushes.

 

[Brad]

I don’t view a brush as a scrubbing tool as much as I view it as a mass volume delivery tool. Brush the bore adding a little solvent with a dropper each time it exits the muzzle. You get far more solvent in the bore this way than with a damp patch.

 

[Ian]

Let the chemicals do the work on the metal fouling, the brush is just to help get the carbon out of the nooks and crannies and Nylon is plenty good for that. Over-scrubbing a bore with a bronze brush might not hurt the bore, but the cleaning rod isn't going to do it any favors if you use it too much.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I never was a nylon brush guy.

A couple years ago I got some by mistake. So I used them. I agree that I dont think they are as aggressive. But truth told I never looked at them as a alternate BECAUSE of the corrosiveness of Sweets.
CW

 

[Ian]

If you think you need something more aggressive than Nylon and cleaning chemicals (you don't), you can wrap 6-O steel wool around a Nylon brush and it will handle the Sweet's.

 

[462]

I use Nylon-coated Dewey cleaning rods.
I, too, drizzle the different solvents on the brush.