littlejack
06-03-2022, 12:59 PM
Hey to all members:
A few months ago, I purchased (from a member) a couple 500 count Missouri .411 cast boolits. One box is 215 grain bbswc, and the other is 225 grain bbrnfp. I bought these for light loading, and plinkin in my S&W 57. I loaded a couple dozen of each last week to try out. It is stated on the boxes that the bhn is 18. I'm not a fan of bevel base boolits, and in my opinion they do contribute to leading issues. In fact, I was reading some of Glen Frixells writings, and he went into detail about why this "may" happen. So, after shooting a couple cylinders full of the swc style, I checked the bore. Sho-nuff, leading was definitely prevalent, and purty seriously. I scrubber the bore with my rooten-tooten bore brush, wrapped with the "copper" Chore Boy. That makes short work out of bore leading. I repeated my shooting and cleaning until I depleted my ammo supply. The swc, or the rnfp style made no difference. The leading was terrible. What to do??? I had heard of coating cast boolits with LLA to help this leading issue. Again, Glen Frixells article "did" mention this as one of the options for boolit leading issues. So, I lightly coated a few dozen, and let them set over night to dry. I loaded them a couple days ago, all with 7.2 grains of HP-38. At the range, ohhh yeah. Yesterday at the range, I followed the same cadence of shooting as last week. I checked the bore after a cylinder full. There was some light streaking. I ran my brush down the bore and repeated. Again, slight streaking down the bore. But, it didn't look like streaking lead ??? So I took a .38 brush and wrapped it with 3 layers of patch material. Poked it down the bore and done the in & out. The streaks were gone, and there was no lead on the patch. There was a light greasy powder fouling on the patch. It was the LLA, no lead. I shot all my rounds, and the bore stayed nice and clean, free of lead. It was a great day at the range, yessss! I know im not the first to do this with the LLA, but, if you haven't tried it, you may want to.
Regards
A few months ago, I purchased (from a member) a couple 500 count Missouri .411 cast boolits. One box is 215 grain bbswc, and the other is 225 grain bbrnfp. I bought these for light loading, and plinkin in my S&W 57. I loaded a couple dozen of each last week to try out. It is stated on the boxes that the bhn is 18. I'm not a fan of bevel base boolits, and in my opinion they do contribute to leading issues. In fact, I was reading some of Glen Frixells writings, and he went into detail about why this "may" happen. So, after shooting a couple cylinders full of the swc style, I checked the bore. Sho-nuff, leading was definitely prevalent, and purty seriously. I scrubber the bore with my rooten-tooten bore brush, wrapped with the "copper" Chore Boy. That makes short work out of bore leading. I repeated my shooting and cleaning until I depleted my ammo supply. The swc, or the rnfp style made no difference. The leading was terrible. What to do??? I had heard of coating cast boolits with LLA to help this leading issue. Again, Glen Frixells article "did" mention this as one of the options for boolit leading issues. So, I lightly coated a few dozen, and let them set over night to dry. I loaded them a couple days ago, all with 7.2 grains of HP-38. At the range, ohhh yeah. Yesterday at the range, I followed the same cadence of shooting as last week. I checked the bore after a cylinder full. There was some light streaking. I ran my brush down the bore and repeated. Again, slight streaking down the bore. But, it didn't look like streaking lead ??? So I took a .38 brush and wrapped it with 3 layers of patch material. Poked it down the bore and done the in & out. The streaks were gone, and there was no lead on the patch. There was a light greasy powder fouling on the patch. It was the LLA, no lead. I shot all my rounds, and the bore stayed nice and clean, free of lead. It was a great day at the range, yessss! I know im not the first to do this with the LLA, but, if you haven't tried it, you may want to.
Regards