Thread: Removing 'leading' from shooting cast bullets

Gents, those of you that shoot cast bullets, what are your go-to cleaning products for removing leading?
I tried Collings No.90 solvent, and a stiff copper brush in my .38 revolver but its not doing the trick. Any tips?

You will always have some lead in the barrel. Just because a patch comes out with a bit of grey does not mean there is problematic leading.

1/ lube your bullets
2/lube your bullets
3/
dOnt push them too fast, over 1400 fps gas checks do help a bit.
4/ alead is soft, bronze brush will remove leading use kerosene as a lube for the brush.

I shoot thousand of cast bullets with zero leading but thats because I powder coat everything. When I didnt powder coat I used to occasionally get a barrel full of lead in 44 mag heavy loads. Removal of the lead was achieved with some dowling of nearly barrel diameter wrapped in fine steel wool. Had to be careful not to have the dowling too long as it can break inside the barrel due to bending and snapping. (bugga) forcing the tight as dowling thru the barrel back and forth worked a treat. The steel wool never harmed the barrel,just shined it up.

Get a brass scouring pad and pull some threads off.
Wrap them around your brush and clean away.

Originally Posted by muzza

shoot a jacket bullet last round of the day

When I shot 9mm in my pistol years ago I would block off one end with wax,plasticene or anything,pour in mercury to almost fill the barrel and then block off the other end, leave lyhing around for a few hours thenpour out for re-use and check with Hoppes no 9.

Hunt down a Lewis lead remover not sure if they are still manufactured but they remove lead easily,
Try a mix of Hoppes N0 9 and Kroil

powder coating

With those powder coated loads do they still expand? Looked at those black widow projos because they're cheeeap as chips. I'm a bit worried that they wouldn't do the job is all sorry if I hijacked this at all.

Cheers