AZAndy
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I have a .45ACP revolver with a ported barrel that's doing something I haven't encountered before. Since it's my first ported firearm, I guess it's not a surprise that the behavior is new to me. After running a hundred or so coated bullets through it, I sat down to clean it and saw that the barrel from the forcing cone up to the first port was pretty good, a little smearing from the coating, easy to swab away. Right where the first port is, there's some lead streaking, and then starting between the two ports it looks like somebody injected about a teaspoon of silvery cake icing in there. I've already decided to switch to plated bullets for this beast, so I'm not looking for a solution, but I'm curious as to whether this is a known effect of porting. Is it just me? What's going on?
It may be that "Reloading" isn't the right place for this; if so, my apologies.
It may be that "Reloading" isn't the right place for this; if so, my apologies.