Recycling Brushes

[Squidward]

Squidward - I am what I am

There is always counselling, my friend..

[Estragon]

Counseling for old age? Oh, goody....

[redcliff]

You won't get the same cleaning action as all of the bristles will be bent backwards.

Trying to drag them back against the angle may be challenging as well.
Brushes are cheap, you don't have to be.

It's pretty much universally recommended that you don't do that anyway. Full passes only. On the rifle barrels I really care about I only pull from the chamber to muzzle then remove the brush, reinsert the rod, reattach the brush and repeat.

[Pauliedad]

I picked up a sonic cleaner for miscellaneous parts and will throw the brushes in now.
Really a nice way to save on brake cleaner. Still use it as needed, but the sonic seems almost magical to this guy.

[Squidward]

Counseling for old age? Oh, goody....

Old age?? nevermind then!

[boromokot]

It's pretty much universally recommended that you don't do that anyway. Full passes only.

just curious but what is the reason for this?

[Estragon]

The reason I am aware of is the brush might get stuck and take some force to remove.

[milotrain]

just curious but what is the reason for this?

The muzzle crown is possibly the most important factor in accuracy of a barrel, if the crown has wear it will effect accuracy, if you run a brush into the muzzle it will have a tendency to prematurely wear the muzzle.

The full stroke recommendation is to always push or pull a brush from the breach out the muzzle for the least amount of wear. Never push or pull a brush back in from the muzzle side.

[postal]

^^^^
Pulling from the muzzle means you need to insert the rod from the muzzle which maybe you could damage your crown doing this.

I use a bore guide and only brush from breach to muzzle- unscrew the brush, pull out the rod, attach brush and repeat as necessary.

Some people "short stroke" the brush- getting near the crown, and pull back. Their logic is that it saves time, and doesnt wear the crown because the brush doesnt get to the crown.. I dont recommend that, and see the other posts above about reversing direction....

[dyson]

Use em to wrap patches around for application and cleaning