P95Carry
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This is hardly a new subject but, always interested to get other's takes on it.
I have met many who, if had a range session using cast bullets, will always put a jacket thru after to ''clean up''!!
I have an opposite view on this ....... using as I do a lot of home cast and loaded ammo ....... .38/357 and 9mm in particular. Whilst my casting alloy is a good hardness there is leading, always, to a degree .. worst in my Blackhawk in fact, partly cos no gas checks and also because I drive em pretty fast!!
My logic tho is ...... after some leading, there will be some residual build up on the main ''driving'' side of each groove .. it can be seen usually. Now if you fire a jacket thru that barrel, that will have to ''fight'' its way down, trying to displace said leading. Fine, as far as a sorta ''cleaning'' might go but ........ and here's the concern ..........
At what cost?? By which I mean pressure ..... I consider this practice to possibly produce a dangerous pressure peak, in particular with my 9mm's ... where anyways we use a pretty high pressure round by design.
I will always if possible delead before using jackets again .. and often use the Hoppes deleading gauze tool ... works well and better IMO than just chemical disolution. Talking of which .. what are your favorite deleading liquids??
I have met many who, if had a range session using cast bullets, will always put a jacket thru after to ''clean up''!!
I have an opposite view on this ....... using as I do a lot of home cast and loaded ammo ....... .38/357 and 9mm in particular. Whilst my casting alloy is a good hardness there is leading, always, to a degree .. worst in my Blackhawk in fact, partly cos no gas checks and also because I drive em pretty fast!!
My logic tho is ...... after some leading, there will be some residual build up on the main ''driving'' side of each groove .. it can be seen usually. Now if you fire a jacket thru that barrel, that will have to ''fight'' its way down, trying to displace said leading. Fine, as far as a sorta ''cleaning'' might go but ........ and here's the concern ..........
At what cost?? By which I mean pressure ..... I consider this practice to possibly produce a dangerous pressure peak, in particular with my 9mm's ... where anyways we use a pretty high pressure round by design.
I will always if possible delead before using jackets again .. and often use the Hoppes deleading gauze tool ... works well and better IMO than just chemical disolution. Talking of which .. what are your favorite deleading liquids??
