A few observations: [A] In many years of shooting and competing in shooting sports I've never had any reason to try to use a stainless steel brush on a gun. In fact, it's generally a bad idea to clean something with a brush that is made from a material which is harder than whatever is being cleaned. [B] It's best to clean a barrel from the breech rather than from the muzzle. Cleaning a barrel from the muzzle increases the risk of damaging the rifling at the muzzle. That's a good reason to field strip (removing the slide, barrel and recoil spring/guide rod assembly) a semi-auto for cleaning. With the gun field stripped it's an easy matter to clean the barrel from the breech. One of the reasons a bore snake is a handy accessory in the field is that it allow swabbing out the barrel from the breech without disassembling the gun. [C] Another reason to partially disassemble the gun for cleaning is that dirt, including residue from the combustion of the propellant, collects in the interior of the gun (e. g., the inside of the slide and locking lugs, the rails in the frame and slide, etc.). Field stripping the gun readily allows wiping out those areas and lubricating them.
A few observations:
[A] In many years of shooting and competing in shooting sports I've never had any reason to try to use a stainless steel brush on a gun. In fact, it's generally a bad idea to clean something with a brush that is made from a material which is harder than whatever is being cleaned.
[B] It's best to clean a barrel from the breech rather than from the muzzle. Cleaning a barrel from the muzzle increases the risk of damaging the rifling at the muzzle.
That's a good reason to field strip (removing the slide, barrel and recoil spring/guide rod assembly) a semi-auto for cleaning. With the gun field stripped it's an easy matter to clean the barrel from the breech.
One of the reasons a bore snake is a handy accessory in the field is that it allow swabbing out the barrel from the breech without disassembling the gun.
[C] Another reason to partially disassemble the gun for cleaning is that dirt, including residue from the combustion of the propellant, collects in the interior of the gun (e. g., the inside of the slide and locking lugs, the rails in the frame and slide, etc.). Field stripping the gun readily allows wiping out those areas and lubricating them.
if i have pants on, i have my gun on, i clean it after i shoot it and once a week if i don't
Let's goooo Jerry!!!!
Useless! Totally uninformative!….apart from telling us to make sure the the gun is not loaded……7 times! Really!