ORIGINAL: stubblejumper
It just seems like after using the brush the patches are dirty afterwards no matter how many times I seem to be doing it. So do I keep doing it or do I just run the brush through and then run patches until they are clean then stop?
It is most likely that your brush is putting more residue back into the barrel after you have cleaned it.Once the patches are clean,don't use a brush.
So how many times should I do the brush? On one gun every time I ran the brush through the first patch through would come out looking black but the next one would be clean. It was like this every time I ran the brush through. The first one was always dirty and after that they were spotless. I did this several times. Then saw it wasn't getting any better so figured it must be the brush putting the black residue in there even though the brush looked clean.
On my other gun it's the same thing however, It's taking several patches after the brush to get it looking clean. I'm not sure that it's fully clean yet. I'm going to go back to it in a minute but it's mostly clean. Just the slightest bit on a patch. However if I run the brush through the next couple patches mainly the first come out looking horrible like the gun is super dirty. After that it's just a very small pieces of dirt on the patch. Hard to see unless you hold it in the light. So are these things clean? Should I stop using the brush? I've probably brushed them 5 times or more doing the brush about 5 times each time. Is this good enough? So after brushing it a few times should I just keep doing patches until they come out clean and then not worry about it?