Old Navy
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As someone mentioned use a bore snake and all will be right in the unieverse. I would no way in Hades recommend leaving a corrise in a barrel over night let alone 30 minutes. Also remember that stainless steel has not had the final heat treating that your carbon steel guns have had and be actually worn and made rough from too much use of the brass brush. I have read where guys on some of the rim-fire forums have had problems with empty cases sticking in chambers and some fool recommends clamping a bore brush in a drill and giving it a few minutes of good brushing that way and the results is always the same, no improvement or it is worse.
I have traded for 22's and a couple of center fire revolvers over the years (I'm 64) that have worn bores from over brushing or that in the case of 22 rim-fire mostly a leaded barrel but on a few ocassions a worn out one from over brushing. For worn out ones it has always been stainless guns and mainly wear would be the cylinders of revolvers or breach chambers on rifles.
With a 22 rim-fire it is almost impossible to get a worn out barrel unless they have been fired 10's of thousands of times or just worn out from the bore brush. The bore snake is the best thing made for cleaning a bore, bar none, and even it has a bore brush in it. I have never used a bore snake more then twice on a 22 rifle, even when shooting several hundred rounds of some nasty ammo. Remember also that most rimfire ammo is nasty stuff from type of powder used, but the bore sake has always taken care of it in one or two passes at most and I shoot everything from US, Mexician and East European made stuff pack in the tins from the commie days of the USSR without any problems thanks to a bore snake.
I have traded for 22's and a couple of center fire revolvers over the years (I'm 64) that have worn bores from over brushing or that in the case of 22 rim-fire mostly a leaded barrel but on a few ocassions a worn out one from over brushing. For worn out ones it has always been stainless guns and mainly wear would be the cylinders of revolvers or breach chambers on rifles.
With a 22 rim-fire it is almost impossible to get a worn out barrel unless they have been fired 10's of thousands of times or just worn out from the bore brush. The bore snake is the best thing made for cleaning a bore, bar none, and even it has a bore brush in it. I have never used a bore snake more then twice on a 22 rifle, even when shooting several hundred rounds of some nasty ammo. Remember also that most rimfire ammo is nasty stuff from type of powder used, but the bore sake has always taken care of it in one or two passes at most and I shoot everything from US, Mexician and East European made stuff pack in the tins from the commie days of the USSR without any problems thanks to a bore snake.
