For nearly all my life I have heard that cleaning from the muzzle, will damage the rifling at the crown and therefore ruin accuracy.
My question is: have any of you ever experienced this? I have some rifles and ALL my revolvers that have been cleaned from the muzzle exclusively and I am unable to determine ANY degradation in accuracy, nor can I see ANY physical damage to the muzzle, crown or rifling at that point.
Personally, I believe this is largely an old wives' tale which has survived all these years because some dolt managed to booger up the muzzle in some fashion and blamed it on the cleaning from the muzzle because he was afraid to admit that he did something stupid.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Your thoughts?