what is the problem with brass brushes

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   Air Rifle barrels are treated but not particularly hard.
Where required i would only use cleaning Patches.
Napier of London have good on-line instructions and products are readily available.

Cleaning should be very rare and only if experiencing problems that cannot be otherwise explained.

I had trialed a tin of copper coated pellets through a 1000fps Crosman and was unhappy with result.
My cleaning rod and kit came with a brass brush which I used, it was a very tight fit.
Following this I was even less pleased with accuracy because there was none.
1000 pellets later this rifle never recovered to original excellent performance.
Copper pellets or brass brush, no idea which was to blame but I will not be using either again.

Look forward to some great posts on this one.

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mercs Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 24 Apr 2020 Location: Stratford Status: Offline Posts: 243	Post Options Post Reply Quote mercs Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 Jul 2022 at 5:13pm
	Air Rifle barrels are treated but not particularly hard. Where required i would only use cleaning Patches. Napier of London have good on-line instructions and products are readily available. Cleaning should be very rare and only if experiencing problems that cannot be otherwise explained. I had trialed a tin of copper coated pellets through a 1000fps Crosman and was unhappy with result. My cleaning rod and kit came with a brass brush which I used, it was a very tight fit. Following this I was even less pleased with accuracy because there was none. 1000 pellets later this rifle never recovered to original excellent performance. Copper pellets or brass brush, no idea which was to blame but I will not be using either again. Look forward to some great posts on this one.

kruzaroad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 02 Jul 2022 Location: Hastings 4 now Status: Offline Posts: 1703	Post Options Post Reply Quote kruzaroad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 Jul 2022 at 4:07pm
	a question, why do people get so anti brass barrel brush.? my logic would be that the barrel is harder than the brush and shouldn't do any damage. could someone enlighten me on this please.