Lee 200gr 452 SWCs. Out of an STI 1911. I think this is a copy of the H&G 68 type boolit.
Worst. Leading. Ever.
It was like a leading apocalypse. Never had anything this awful with commercial hard cast boolits. Unfortunately I don't have the first clue what the cause is. The leading was evenly distributed the entire length of the barrel. I did have some issues with fill out when casting these because I could never get my mold and my alloy hot enough. That might have something to do with it.
Boolits were cast with straight wheel weight alloy and air cooled. Sized to .451". Before you say it, I have no choice but to size to .451. My 1911 will *not* chamber a cartridge with a .452" diameter bullet. When I was loading commercial cast boolits for it I had to use the Lee FCD, which basically just swaged the hard cast boolits down to .451 anyway (or maybe .4515, I never knew the exact diameter).
I lubed with 45/45/10 from White Label. I think I got this part right, the boolits dried and were not tacky and you couldn't really see the stuff on them.
What does it usually mean if the leading is distributing down the entire barrel? Does that indicate gas cutting from an undersize boolit? If it's an undersize boolit problem, the only thing I can do is load hotter and hope to obdurate the boolit better. I'm already loading pretty hot with Winchester 231, not max, but not far off of it either. Maybe I should use the Lee FCD instead of the size. It might leave me closer to 452 than 451...might make a difference too.
I'll check back here soon. Gotta go buy some chore boys...