I’ve been shooting BP in my .45-70 lever gun for a few months now. Both grease lubed and paper patched. I have always loaded grease cookies, because I didn’t want to swab between shots. I’ve been having good luck and a lot of fun. However, as we all know, when the fun is over you have to clean up.
The other day I decided to shoot a couple of powder coated smokeless rounds when I finished shooting BP. As I thought, the bore was really cleaned out. I did do a regular cleaning, but it was a lot easier and quicker.
I can understand it not being a good idea to shoot a copper jacket down a lead only bore, but figured a powder coated boolit, shouldn’t cause any problems.
What do others think about doing this? Could I be doing something to cause problems?
Thanks for everyone’s thoughts on this.