looseprojectile
08-03-2008, 11:24 AM
As you have read earlier, I have been shooting pins and having some good and some not so good results.
I traded for a used Para Ordnance P-14 .45, a couple of months ago. I have shot it several times with different loads and have always experienced some leading just in front of the chamber. Tried soft and hard alloy and several lubes and always got more leading than I would like.
Solved the problem. Took me about an hour and fifteen minutes.
I poured a lead lap and used some 280 grit lapping compound on it. After I lapped it with just one lapping session I felt I had the grooves really smooth. I then polished the bore with J&B And now this gun will not lead with any of some the left over loads that were previously giving me unacceptable leading.
I have never firelapped a barrel as it seems easier to me to pour a lead lap as I have all the equipment at hand and I feel I have more controll over the process this way.
If I were making and selling guns I would be ashamed to send out a gun with a barrel as lumpy as this one was. This gun would never need to be cleaned now except for the soot from powder and lube. Life is good
I traded for a used Para Ordnance P-14 .45, a couple of months ago. I have shot it several times with different loads and have always experienced some leading just in front of the chamber. Tried soft and hard alloy and several lubes and always got more leading than I would like.
Solved the problem. Took me about an hour and fifteen minutes.
I poured a lead lap and used some 280 grit lapping compound on it. After I lapped it with just one lapping session I felt I had the grooves really smooth. I then polished the bore with J&B And now this gun will not lead with any of some the left over loads that were previously giving me unacceptable leading.
I have never firelapped a barrel as it seems easier to me to pour a lead lap as I have all the equipment at hand and I feel I have more controll over the process this way.
If I were making and selling guns I would be ashamed to send out a gun with a barrel as lumpy as this one was. This gun would never need to be cleaned now except for the soot from powder and lube. Life is good