Blammer
09-12-2008, 07:27 PM
Ok, got this 41 mag contender barrel.
It leaded badly on the first shot.
After a bunch of monkeying around with it, I determined that I could not shoot oversized bullets in it due to the chamber being on minimum dimensions.
.411 was the dia, and all that I could fit in the chamber was .411 bullets.
Luck would have it I met someone local who could help me.
2tite is the gentleman and after meeting him for the first time in person, when he came buy to buy some beeswax I gave him my brl to take and hone the chamber out.
I was very surprised to get an email from him later in the day stating it was finished! He said he'd drop it off on Wed, just 2 day later!
Well he opened up the chamber so I can fit a .412 dia bullet in it.
So after careful loading I put a .412 boolit in it with LLA as the lube, and 16gr of 2400 with the 210gr plain base. Leaded the barrel on the first shot and the primer was FLAT! This is the minimum load for that combo!
so after dutifully scrubbing the barrel free of lead again (I'm getting pretty good at that.) I looked at the barrel and decided a bit of polishing may work.
So I took some 0000 steel wool, and some JB paste and went at it.
Next I found a "plinker" load of 7gr of unique and the 210gr LLA boolit. Shot it one time, no leading! yea, on the right track I suppose. Most other times one shot just leads it really badly.
I'm using ACWW's.
My question is, Why do you suppose that I have really flat primers on a min load of 2400 and a 210gr boolit?
Is the leading due to the plain base and the "max" load I'm experiencing?
Will polishing the barrel help in reducing leading?
It leaded badly on the first shot.
After a bunch of monkeying around with it, I determined that I could not shoot oversized bullets in it due to the chamber being on minimum dimensions.
.411 was the dia, and all that I could fit in the chamber was .411 bullets.
Luck would have it I met someone local who could help me.
2tite is the gentleman and after meeting him for the first time in person, when he came buy to buy some beeswax I gave him my brl to take and hone the chamber out.
I was very surprised to get an email from him later in the day stating it was finished! He said he'd drop it off on Wed, just 2 day later!
Well he opened up the chamber so I can fit a .412 dia bullet in it.
So after careful loading I put a .412 boolit in it with LLA as the lube, and 16gr of 2400 with the 210gr plain base. Leaded the barrel on the first shot and the primer was FLAT! This is the minimum load for that combo!
so after dutifully scrubbing the barrel free of lead again (I'm getting pretty good at that.) I looked at the barrel and decided a bit of polishing may work.
So I took some 0000 steel wool, and some JB paste and went at it.
Next I found a "plinker" load of 7gr of unique and the 210gr LLA boolit. Shot it one time, no leading! yea, on the right track I suppose. Most other times one shot just leads it really badly.
I'm using ACWW's.
My question is, Why do you suppose that I have really flat primers on a min load of 2400 and a 210gr boolit?
Is the leading due to the plain base and the "max" load I'm experiencing?
Will polishing the barrel help in reducing leading?