Choreboy copper scrubber + me = ....

[steve in kc]

I've been looking for one for a looooooooong time but could never find one, until I looked at the cast boolit mecca (Dollar General Store) and low and behold...a TWO PACK for $1.75??

I had some leading in my .45acp and it cleaned it RIGHT OUT in about 5 passes when wrapped around a brush!!

I used to get terrible leading all the way through my bbl, which was hard to diagnose because it is only 3.5" long (Taurus 24/7 Pro C DS). I got my lube figured out since I was able to reduce leading to the first 1.5-1.75" of my bbl.

My bbl slugs at .4515 and my boolits drop from my two molds at .452 and .453 respectively.

However, I'm shooting straight WW for now and I belive that with my load (4.5-5gr Red Dot) was not the right load for the assumed BH of 14. I will be making some 50/50 and 3:1 (pure to ww) alloy this weekend when it gets to 48F this weekend and will be casting up some new softer boolits. I think I might just have my problem licked!

[wallenba]

Put a magnet on it to see if it is just copper plated. That's the only kind I've been able to find lately. Probably won't hurt though.

[alamogunr]

The Chore Boy brand is copper. Most all others I find are the copper plated steel. I even bought some before I found a magnet strong enough to give a positive reaction. The magnet on the end of a giveaway screwdriver isn't strong enough to cause the steel in the scrubber to react.

John
W.TN

[pistolman44]

That is what I use to get the lead out + Ed's Red. They are getting scarce on the store shelfs here. I going to check a Dollar General store so I can stock up on a few. I also just found 3 cans of JPW at an old grocery store. Bought all 3 cans. Asked the manager if he would be getting any more in and told me that the 3 cans that I bought were on the shelf for the last 2 yrs.

[Cadillo]

That is what I use to get the lead out + Ed's Red. They are getting scarce on the store shelfs here. I going to check a Dollar General store so I can stock up on a few. I also just found 3 cans of JPW at an old grocery store. Bought all 3 cans. Asked the manager if he would be getting any more in and told me that the 3 cans that I bought were on the shelf for the last 2 yrs.

JPW???

Another addition to the ignore list.

[Wally]

Steve,

I have the same problem and find it best to clean the lead fouling after so many shots. I use a square inch of aluminum flyscreen that you push through the barrel with a jag tip and a piece of cloth. Works better than a Lewis lead remover and is much faster. Some take exception to using aluminum fearing aluminum oxide & scratching. I use new aluminum fly sceren that is bright and shiny..it has a coating on it to keep it that way and so it doesn't scratch. The patch should be tight to work best--a few passes and the barrel will quickly be clean. I have used the Choreboy method--it works too, but the strands quickly shred away and I find my method to be faster and easier.

I've been looking for one for a looooooooong time but could never find one, until I looked at the cast boolit mecca (Dollar General Store) and low and behold...a TWO PACK for $1.75??

I had some leading in my .45acp and it cleaned it RIGHT OUT in about 5 passes when wrapped around a brush!!

I used to get terrible leading all the way through my bbl, which was hard to diagnose because it is only 3.5" long (Taurus 24/7 Pro C DS). I got my lube figured out since I was able to reduce leading to the first 1.5-1.75" of my bbl.

My bbl slugs at .4515 and my boolits drop from my two molds at .452 and .453 respectively.

However, I'm shooting straight WW for now and I belive that with my load (4.5-5gr Red Dot) was not the right load for the assumed BH of 14. I will be making some 50/50 and 3:1 (pure to ww) alloy this weekend when it gets to 48F this weekend and will be casting up some new softer boolits. I think I might just have my problem licked!

[theperfessor]

JPW = Johnson's Paste Wax

[Skipper488]

The Ace Hardware closest to me stocks JPW.

[montana_charlie]

I asked my wife to put Chore Boy on her shopping list. Told her that specific brand is the only one I am interested in, because it's all copper.

A week or ten days later she handed me a pack of Chore Boy scrubbing pads...and they will snuggle right up to any magnet that gets close to them.

CM

[RobS]

steve in kc:

Pull a boolit from a round to make sure the base is the intended .452-.453 diameter. An aircooled WW boolit is hard enought to withstand the possible swage down of the case, but only if the boolit is aged. Don't expect a boolit of this alloy to be ready to load a few hours or even a few days after being cast.

[zxcvbob]

You can get brass wool at Ace hardware; it's usually a special order item but it's not expensive. (I bought a pack but I haven't tried it yet)

[geargnasher]

You can get brass wool at Ace hardware; it's usually a special order item but it's not expensive. (I bought a pack but I haven't tried it yet)

+1 on the bronze wool, it is a good "finisher" for getting the last bit of lead out of the tight angle at the base of the grooves where sometimes the Chore Boy is to coarse to reach. I wrap the wool around and old bronze brush just like the CB.

Chore Boy makes "solid copper" and copper plated steel, just because it is the right name doesn't mean it's the right product. I bought my last two-pack of solid copper ones at a convenience store for a buck just because I happened to see them and it was a good price.

Cadillo, why does stocking up on old Johnson's Paste Wax (they recently changed the ingredients quite a bit but the company denies it) make one worthy of your ignore list? If you're assuming he's making 45/45/10 with it and you don't approve, doesn't mean it doesn't work for him and many others and it certainly doesn't make him stupid.

Gear

[Bret4207]

Guys, plain old hardware store 4/0 steel wool works as good as Chore Boy and WILL NOT harm your barrel. That's what your gun smith uses to polish the blue on your barrel.

[smorin2]

Hey guys,here in Maine i buy Butler brand copper scouring pads.They are all copper,states so on the package and the magnet does'nt stick to them.They are sold at Hannaford grocery stores. I'm not sure how far south Hannaford stores are located but the website for this brand is: www.thebutler.com Hope this helps,Steve P.S. i tried the web address and got nothing but their phone # is:1-800-493-2205.They are located in Marlborough,Mass.

[mroliver77]

I have found the easiest way to get lead out of a barrel is to not put it there in the first place. I rarely get leading in any gun these days.
A friend and I bought some boolits off a fellow at a gun show one time as they were very cheap. Man did they lead!They were very hard and had a crappy plastic like lube on them.About every fourth cylinder full we would load a cylinder full of my boolits with fwfl and it would take most of the lead out of the barrel. If you kept shooting mine barrel would be sparkling after 50 rounds or so.
I ended up tl over the blue lube with some alox. It helped a bit. Using the old CF Ventures red sheet wax cookies under the nasty boolits helped a bunch.
I have been doing a bit of IDPA shooting with a friend this last year. Some days my 1911 would go through 200 - 300 rounds of .45acp loaded with a mihec H&G 68 boolit with Felix lube and 4.1gr of "Titewad" powder. There is no leading whatsoever! The barrel actually shines before patching it. I have went 1000 or more rounds without touching the bore and it looked as good as after the first shot. If I can pull this off anybody can.
Jay

[Doble Troble]

The only thing that keeps me from never cleaning my 1911 shooting Lee 200 gr SWC is that eventually lube goo will prevent the extractor from moving and doing it's job. This happens after 2 matches with practice in between - probably 500 rounds. I lube with BAC and size to 0.452 with a dead nuts 0.450 bore. 45 ACP is a casting dream...but you've got to run a Q-tip down the extractor tunnel (and why not firing pin tunnel while you're at it).

[mpmarty]

+1 on 45acp being a casters dream cartridge. Cut my casting teeth on a 200gr swc from Lyman in the mid 1960s. almost idiot proof.

[nanuk]

Bronze Wool

where would one find this?

[NSP64]

Bronze Wool

where would one find this?

On bronze sheep!


+1 on the 0000 steel wool.

[alamogunr]

Brownell's had it at one time. I haven't checked their catalog lately.

John
W.TN