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Posted: 5/16/2014 2:37:21 PM EDT
| I was reading a post about break-in and the discussion turned quickly to over cleaning. It seems like one pass down the barrel with the brass brush then patches or bore snake and clean the rest with a tooth brush and tooth pics. They were very adamant that cleaning with metal brushes instead of tooth brushes would wear parts out fast. Is this a major concern? My kid uses one of those Otis kits. They also said not to follow any military cleaning instruction due to excessive over cleaning since taxpayer money buys new parts. My kid just got a Doublestar 16" and I'm getting a Rock River 24" varmint and I don't want to go over board cleaning them because I would have before I read that other thread. |
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I wouldn't recommend metal brushes at all however, a brass bristle brush is good to go to use on the tail of the bolt when you get excessive carbon build up if you want to and that's about it. All purpose brushes aka plastic bristle brushes are the way to go on the parts that you may end up brushing like the bolt and the bolt tail.
I very seldom run a brush of any sort down my barrels, a patch with CLP or the occasional Hoppes #9 usually works for me. I do use a chamber brush on my chamber connected to the T handle. I like and use the USGI sectional cleaning rod kits. There are more high speed kits out there but the above kit works for me. OP I would recommend reading some more in the maintenance and cleaning archives here at arfcom. Knowledge is power and there is a lot of good, useful information posted. I hope this helps. |
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