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I don't have the problem so much anymore, but when I did, Choreboy cleaning pads worked great. Get the brass- or copper-colored one, not the stainless steel version, so you don't scratch your barrel.
Take the Choreboy pad and start cutting it up into roughly 1x1-inch squares (or whatever size works best with your gear), and put an old, worn out bronze brush on your cleaning rod, wrap the choreboy square around the top of the brush, apply solvent if you want, and push your rod through the entire length of the barrel, back and forth, back and forth.
In a heavily leaded barrel, you should start to see slivers of lead falling out onto your work surface. Use bigger squares of choreboy if your brush is really worn out. You should have to use a fair amount of pressure to push the rod through, otherwise you don't get good cutting action out of the choreboy.
I don't have to do this anymore though, now that I upped my powder charge a little.
I was surprised to discover that when I first started reloading too... that more pressure could = less leading. I figured it would be the opposite (more pressure = more leading).
I was getting some terrible leading in my 1911 barrel when running 200gr LSWC with 5.0 grains (or less) of Winchester 231. As soon as I bumped up my charge to 5.2 grains, my leading practically disappeared.
I still don't understand how that works. It just seems like the opposite of common sense. You'd think higher pressure would mean more "smearing", but that's not what happens...
Take the Choreboy pad and start cutting it up into roughly 1x1-inch squares (or whatever size works best with your gear), and put an old, worn out bronze brush on your cleaning rod, wrap the choreboy square around the top of the brush, apply solvent if you want, and push your rod through the entire length of the barrel, back and forth, back and forth.
In a heavily leaded barrel, you should start to see slivers of lead falling out onto your work surface. Use bigger squares of choreboy if your brush is really worn out. You should have to use a fair amount of pressure to push the rod through, otherwise you don't get good cutting action out of the choreboy.
I don't have to do this anymore though, now that I upped my powder charge a little.
I was surprised to discover that when I first started reloading too... that more pressure could = less leading. I figured it would be the opposite (more pressure = more leading).
I was getting some terrible leading in my 1911 barrel when running 200gr LSWC with 5.0 grains (or less) of Winchester 231. As soon as I bumped up my charge to 5.2 grains, my leading practically disappeared.
I still don't understand how that works. It just seems like the opposite of common sense. You'd think higher pressure would mean more "smearing", but that's not what happens...
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