Quote Originally Posted by GotSnlB28 View Post
I am always amazed at how different pictures can look. RR, definitely avoid a brush or anything like that. Bore cleaner should soften it but will take some time. I am at the point now, I clean them as little as possible but if it's thick enough to obscure the marking I understand the desire to uncover it. A few weeks ago I bought a loose flip sight that was really gunky. Zooming in with a camera there was only a light indication of a mark. After using some hoppes on a q-tip I found the leaf was marked W-I.
I took another look at Charlie's pic of the B-R leaf and I was looking lower than that. There's no mark where a B-R should be on that leaf, and of course, both of you are right about a wire brush. Sometimes I get so focused on one thing, I forget the consequences of doing it. Thanks for the reminder.