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My normal cleaning regiment is 5 passes with nylon soaked brush 3 wet patches 3 dry pathes On a brand new factory barreled rifle should I worry about running a nylon brush in first with the possibility of who knows what in the bore? Would it be better to just start with patches?

Right on. Thanks for all the info.

Its a 16" barrel 1 in 9 twist with a 556 chamber. Brass was twice fired range pic ups. I didn't notice any difference in recoil and the velocity was slower than 55 grain pmc.

Wasn't trying to load hot it was the starting charge. They were just plinking loads.

I went to load up some light plinking loads so I took the published starting load from hodgdons web site of 25 grains of varget with a 60 grain hornady sp bullet. I loaded up 5 and took a box of 55 gr pmc. shoot both through a chronograph. pmc averaged 2750fps and the hand loads averaged 2650...