Shrinkmd
Member
I was shooting the other day with some correctly sized (as in 0.001 over the bore diameter) lead bullets, and had virtually no leading on the forcing cone or the cylinder face. After 300 rounds the gun was almost clean. I needed to pick and scrape a little, but overall it was an easy cleanup.
This is in comparison to some 38 special 148 wadcutter rounds (fired in 38 brass in a 357 chamber) which threw lead all over the cylinder face, forcing cone area, etc and was a royal pain to get clean.
These bullets were mistakenly ordered at 0.357, and not the 0.358 I should have done. What can I do with these undersized bullets? Would shooting them in a .357 case help the mess, or shooting them at magnum velocities to try and get them to obturate a bit more? I will shoot them up regardless, but after cleaning up from the other load (45 auto rim), I am not looking forward to scrubbing the cylinder with Flitz again to get it looking decent.
This is in comparison to some 38 special 148 wadcutter rounds (fired in 38 brass in a 357 chamber) which threw lead all over the cylinder face, forcing cone area, etc and was a royal pain to get clean.
These bullets were mistakenly ordered at 0.357, and not the 0.358 I should have done. What can I do with these undersized bullets? Would shooting them in a .357 case help the mess, or shooting them at magnum velocities to try and get them to obturate a bit more? I will shoot them up regardless, but after cleaning up from the other load (45 auto rim), I am not looking forward to scrubbing the cylinder with Flitz again to get it looking decent.