You know the other day I bought for the first time a nylon brush. I had just recently purchased a GI bronze brush and had noticed after about 6 or 7 cleaning sessions that it wasn’t as tight as when new, hence the idea to try out nylon.
I believe the nylon did a better job, and it seemed to require less effort to clean my barrel.
This is what I bought:
secure.armorholdings.com/kleen-bore/product354.htmlThe barrel was a new DPMS chrome-moly barrel, and from my experience, chrome-moly was always a bit harder to get really clean compared to chrome lined. With C-moly I always seemed to pull out patches with a tiny bit of carbon on them. Not this time.
Along with the brush listed above I purchased this cleaning rod:
secure.armorholdings.com/kleen-bore/product385.htmlThis cleaning session had to be the easiest yet. Using Hoppes #9 on a mop I swabbed the barrel, waited a few minutes, then ran the Hoppes soaked nylon brush through the bore about 8-10 times.
After running a few Hoppes soaked patches through, it took about 5-6 dry patches before they came out clean. I might be behind the curve when it comes to the latest cleaning rods and bore cleaners. Up till now I used a combination of aluminum sectional and GI cleaning rods. But I have to say using the new nylon brush and one piece rod sure seemed to make this cleaning session a more pleasurable experience!