Starting from the chamber doesn't help any with a piece of rope. You're still dragging it across the throat and crown. And it's not the same as a bronze or brass bore brush. Both are made of copper. Copper is softer than steel and won't damage the throat, muzzle or bore. Espeially if you're dipping it in solvent like you should.However,grit like sand, dirt, metals, and whatever else that can embed in the bore snake, will damage your bore.This stuffcan beharder than steel and will score the hec out of the bore and wear the throat and muzzle un-evenly.
Aone piece, steelrod can be wiped completely clean with one stroke of a rag. A bore snake picks up foreign matter and it's there forever.
Imagine dipping a rag in oil and solvent, then rubbing it on the ground to pick up grit. Would you wipe the exterior ofyour gun with this? Why use it in your bore?
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If you like dragging abrasive foreign objects across the muzzle and down the bore, bore snakes are for you.
I don’t know about anybody else but I start from the chamber and work my way out to the muzzle just like a cleaning rod and as for abrasive foreign object it’s no different then a brass brush...