Thank you for your assessment of my mental capacity. No need to get personal.

For goodness sakes, it's a rifle barrel! Hot gases, powder, primer crud, copper, lead, all kinds of alloys at extreme pressures and temperatures and the thought of what amounts to a long bore mop scares you. Wow.

I have one piece stainless rods for both large and small bores. I have several barrels that cost me in excess of $300 ea. Until someone can show me (with a Borescope) that this device, with careful usedoes any damage, I will not fall for this flawed logic. It is not, nor will it ever be my cleaner of choice but like I said before, as an interim cleaner it does OK.

No matter how many times they are repeated, continuing torepeat internet Urban Legends does not make them true.