Scrubbing Brushes

will bronze wire brushes damage the bore or the barrel?

i use them on my guns every time i shoot them,but i'm wondering are the wires in the bronze brushes,will they damage the barrel after awhile. meaning will they scratch the barrel or mess with the riffling any inside the bore these are like the ones i use http://images2.opticsplanet.com/136-180/opplanet-tipton-caliber-rifle-bronze-bristle-bore-brushes-bag-of-10.gif no lad it says right on the package bronze

Public Comments

1. no way brass brush will hurt it,,you did mean brass not bronze right????
2. A debate for all time... Here is what the experts say... http://www.6mmbr.com/borebrushing.html I brush with brass but try to limit trips over the muzzle.
3. I have preached this hundreds of times after I learned it from others... "More damage is done while cleaning guns than while firing them." There are all sorts of nasty things you can do to harm your prized firearm in the clenaing process. Things like stainless steel bore brushes will quickly ruin your barrel. I don't even know why they bother to make them at all. Even steel cleaning rods can ruin your gun...if the rod is not perfectly centered, it will start to "hone" the bore, chamber or barrel crown. What do butchers use to sharpen their knives and cleavers? Steel? You betcha. I rarely ever run a bore brush of any kind through my rifles or handguns. Maybe once every 200 shots. For my big game rifles, I only fire maybe 3 shots at the range to verify zero and possibly 2 more times during the season. When I am finished for the season, I just run a couple of patches soaked in solvent, followed by some dry patches and then finally a light oil patch...before going into storage. I also use a brass cleaning rod exclusively. Nothing steel is going to be going into my barrel. As for bronze. That is a metal that is mostly copper, with another alloy mixed with it. It could be tin, or it could be aluminum. I don't do as much pistol shooting as I used to. But, back in the good ole' days, I used to shoot my Ruger Mark II 22 LR every week - 50 rounds a week. Usually about 2,500 rounds in a year. That's 5 bricks of ammo. I only cleaned the gun once a year...took it apart and used the bronze cleaning brush for that. Then...back to shooting it for another year before it needed cleaning again.
4. I am an old army man who cleaned my rifle more in 6 months than all but competition shooters do in their life time. None of the rifles I used were newer than 15 years and the bore shined and the rifling was clear and sharp. Unless you clean 10-20 times a day regardless of shooting no harm will come ot your barrel no matter what you use. With a bronze bristle brush you probably could not measure the wear if you did this for a year. As a casual shooter you will not wear out a bore in your lifetime.
5. The reason they are bronze is so they wont damage the barrel. The make steel brushes but you never see them.
6. people say that they won't do damage to your bore. I can see where that would be true....I tried using one once and it just felt like I was doing something bad......I don't know, I never use them.