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AR15L wrote:Unless I missed something... what does the barrel look like after shooting these?
Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:29 pm
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Yondering wrote:AR15L wrote:Unless I missed something... what does the barrel look like after shooting these?
Shiny!
Seriously, you get powder fouling, and that's it. It's a lot like shotgun barrels actually, where the only thing touching the bore is slick plastic. (except for ported shotgun barrels that foul plastic, not like that)
In my cast bullet shooters, I never clean the barrels any more, except for built up fouling on the outside. I've been shooting ~1,000 rounds per month (all cast) through a pair of Glock 19 pistols for example, and haven't cleaned the bore of either one in several years. Haven't had any reason to.
Sometimes a certain load that's not right (undersized bullets, wrong powder combination, etc) will leave some dark streaks in the bore, but those disappear after firing a round or two of good loads.
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sportsdad60 wrote:I also dump the freshly baked bullets right into a bucket of cold water after PC for 20 minutes. Every one of them break up, no chipping.
Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:44 pm
MadPick wrote:sportsdad60 wrote:I also dump the freshly baked bullets right into a bucket of cold water after PC for 20 minutes. Every one of them break up, no chipping.
Do you mean that you bake them in a pile like Yondering does, and they all stick together . . . but the cold water quench makes them come apart more easily?