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New barrel cleaning

slydog3

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Nov 27, 2013
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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?