Best Product To Remove Lead From Bore ?

"Shooting the lead out" is an old urban legend about guns.

In fact what happens is, the bullet will "ride over" some of the lead and will actually "iron" it into the bore.
This tends to make the leading difficult to see, and may lead you to think the lead is gone, when it's still there.
Moisture works it's way UNDER the lead, and the first sign of trouble is when the lead starts to flake off, exposing rust and pitting.

The major danger of shooting jacketed bullets to clean the lead out is when there's JUST a little too much lead present, and the bullet can't push it out of the way fast enough.
When this happens, you get a bulge or a ring blown in the barrel.

People often wonder how a barrel got ringed or bulged, and how someone was careless enough to fire a gun with an obstructed bore.
In many cases they were "shooting the lead" out.
 
I totally agree Dfaris. I've heard of that process before too, and have half-heartedly tried it in the past to remove lead and I've noticed that all it does is compress it more into the bore like you say.

Nope!....give me the LLR or a reasonable facsimile to "scrape" that stuff from the bore because as far as I'm concerned that's the ONLY way that you're going to get it out. :)
 
If your pistol is leading a lot may I suggest try belling the case just a bit more.....

I went from lots of lead fouling to almost nothing just by adding a bit more bell to the case mouth. Seems I was moving the sides of the bullet around when seating.

I had a hard time doing this as we try not to over work our brass. With Jacketed I still use as little bell as I can get away with.
 
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