Bill Akins
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With all the recommendations to the OP, that it might just be lead build up in the grooves of the rifling of the barrel, (giving an incorrect impression of worn out rifling in the barrel), I have a question.
I know about the "Lewis lead remover" which is basically the same as putting a brass faucet screen in your cleaning rod end and scouring out the lead in the rifling. I know about the lead removing chemicals one can use to help remove the lead from the rifling.
But what I am wondering is, does anyone here know, if there is a product on the market, wherein first you find out what the exact depth of what your rifling grooves are supposed to be from the factory, and then you use some sort of product wherein it is almost like the old time corkscrew rifling technique which used a bit of hard file material on the end of the corkscrew rifling rod, wherein that device with its hard file like material, would screw onto the end of your cleaning rod, and could be set to be spring loaded so that as it is passed back and forth through the barrel, that it would only open up (and no further) to the exact diameter of what your rifling grooves are supposed to be from the factory.
Whereby it will cut out all the lead built up in the rifling grooves without actually cutting the rifling grooves deeper than they were originally. After passing this device through the barrel numerous times, (and remember it would not open up the rifling grooves any deeper than they were from the factory because it is preset to only open up the cutters so far), it would literally cut the built up lead out of the rifling grooves down to where the bottom of the rifling grooves were originally from the factory. Thus restoring your rifling grooves to their unfired factory depth with no guesswork on the part of the person as to whether or not they got all the lead out of the grooves.
If such a product does not exist, it sure would be a useful product to come up with to remove lead without relying on chemicals, scouring with copper brushes, brass or bronze screens, etc to remove lead and not really ever know if you got all the lead removed. The only possible problem I can see would be if your rifling grooves were so leaded up that you could not even align the cutters of that product correctly over the top of the lead in the rifling grooves. That would then of course cause the cutters to cut new rifling grooves that might possibly not be aligned correctly and mess up your rifling grooves hidden under the lead. But...if you could still see and feel any kind of rifling grooves at all, you should be able to align such a tool correctly with the existing grooves. Especially if you scoured the rifling with a brass screen first, exposing at least SOME of the rifling grooves.
Anyone know if such a product for removing lead from rifling grooves exists?
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I know about the "Lewis lead remover" which is basically the same as putting a brass faucet screen in your cleaning rod end and scouring out the lead in the rifling. I know about the lead removing chemicals one can use to help remove the lead from the rifling.
But what I am wondering is, does anyone here know, if there is a product on the market, wherein first you find out what the exact depth of what your rifling grooves are supposed to be from the factory, and then you use some sort of product wherein it is almost like the old time corkscrew rifling technique which used a bit of hard file material on the end of the corkscrew rifling rod, wherein that device with its hard file like material, would screw onto the end of your cleaning rod, and could be set to be spring loaded so that as it is passed back and forth through the barrel, that it would only open up (and no further) to the exact diameter of what your rifling grooves are supposed to be from the factory.
Whereby it will cut out all the lead built up in the rifling grooves without actually cutting the rifling grooves deeper than they were originally. After passing this device through the barrel numerous times, (and remember it would not open up the rifling grooves any deeper than they were from the factory because it is preset to only open up the cutters so far), it would literally cut the built up lead out of the rifling grooves down to where the bottom of the rifling grooves were originally from the factory. Thus restoring your rifling grooves to their unfired factory depth with no guesswork on the part of the person as to whether or not they got all the lead out of the grooves.
If such a product does not exist, it sure would be a useful product to come up with to remove lead without relying on chemicals, scouring with copper brushes, brass or bronze screens, etc to remove lead and not really ever know if you got all the lead removed. The only possible problem I can see would be if your rifling grooves were so leaded up that you could not even align the cutters of that product correctly over the top of the lead in the rifling grooves. That would then of course cause the cutters to cut new rifling grooves that might possibly not be aligned correctly and mess up your rifling grooves hidden under the lead. But...if you could still see and feel any kind of rifling grooves at all, you should be able to align such a tool correctly with the existing grooves. Especially if you scoured the rifling with a brass screen first, exposing at least SOME of the rifling grooves.
Anyone know if such a product for removing lead from rifling grooves exists?
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