Pond James Pond
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Take a magnet shopping.
As if I didn't already have a reputation in these parts....
Take a magnet shopping.
At my disposal here are:
- Hoppes No 9
- Hoppes Elite Bore Gel
- A .44 cal jag and wire brush
- a 44 cal bore snake
- Lots of patches.
Any suggestions about either end of the problem?
That statement is false %75 of the time. Commercial casters cast their bullets too hard with too hard of a lube to prevent damage during shipping. Even if the bullet, throat, and bore are close to right you have to push a 18-22 BHN bullet pretty hard to get it to seal off. Too slow is just as bad to lead up a barrel as to fast.Leading is caused by trying to drive a cast bullet too fast. Regardless of its hardness.
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Leading is caused by trying to drive a cast bullet too fast. Regardless of its hardness.
I fail to see any need to use anything but cast wheelweight bullets in a revolver and I don't recall ever scrubbing lead.
Too true Dahermit. I've got a local tire shop that still sells to me...a diaper pail of weights comes in at 100 lbs. and costs me $20. Of that 100 lbs. I get ~55 lbs. of lead alloy weights.Nowadays it seems that Lead-based wheel weights are viewed as more of a desired casting alloy rather than viewed with the historical contempt...if you can even find them.
I sure wish to gosh that the auto manuf's would go back to the old WW composition....it'd be a God-send to us lead bullet shooters.