Lead Out

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I usually use WIPEOUT bore cleaner on my rifles, and it works great with a minimum of fuss.

But recently I have aqquired a Mdl 94 Trapper in 45 COlt and I've been shooting lots of lead bullets, so I thougt I would give it a cleaning the traditional way,s imce WIPEOUT doesnt' dissolve lead.

First, I had to track down the bronze bore brushes, which I haven't used in ages, then blow the dust off of them.

Next I found my old jug of Eds Red, and soaked some patches in it, and wiped them down the bore, and alternated scrubbing the bore with the brush and wiping with patches.

I did this for way too long and remembered the joys of life without WIPEOUT....Put plainly, it sucked.

I read up a bit on WIPEOUT and it *will* dissolve most of the powder fouling stuck in there with the lead, so maybe next time I will shoot a few jacketed bullets and then try the WIPEOUT, until I can find some LEAD OUT.:p

I've forgotten how much using brushes and regular solvent for bore cleaning sucked.:p
 
mix 1/2 vinegar and 1/2 hydrogenperoxide will strip lead out like nothing and is safe to use. Will eat and entire lead bullet over night. Plug the barrel and soak for about 10 minutes lead will wipe out on a patch.

Andy
 
You don't need any solvents to get lead out. Take one of the those copper "curly kate" things from the kitchen that are used to clean dishes, cut it up, wrap some of it around your bore brush and push it though. It will cut the lead out in a pass or two. Just make sure you stay away from stainless.
 
joebanana said:
You don't need any solvents to get lead out. Take one of the those copper "curly kate" things from the kitchen that are used to clean dishes, cut it up, wrap some of it around your bore brush and push it though. It will cut the lead out in a pass or two. Just make sure you stay away from stainless.
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This is the method prescribed by Bill Wilson in the instructional DVD that comes with his expensive custom guns.
 
762nato said:
mix 1/2 vinegar and 1/2 hydrogenperoxide will strip lead out like nothing and is safe to use. Will eat and entire lead bullet over night. Plug the barrel and soak for about 10 minutes lead will wipe out on a patch.

Andy
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This works great but be careful not to get any on the bluing, it strips it right now.

I use both methods mentioned, I do the vinegar and peroxide solution and let it sit for 15 minutes and then put a chore boy wrapped around a brush down after and it is clean as a whistle.

Ultimately you are doing something wrong with your lube or sizing of the bullets to get lead in your barrel in the first place, I would start there and end the headache to begin with. I haven't shot copper in any of my handguns ever and when I clean the barrels it is to get the powder fouling out only, never any lead deposits. My rifles get lead to practice with and the same thing applies with them.
 
Whats a curly kate. I'm not as familiar around the kitchen as some of you guys. Any chance of a pic. She sounds awsome. :)
 
Curly kate is Chore Boy I'm thinking.....lead bullets in the .45 Colt's should not cause a leading problem, cast medium hard, the right diameter and using a good bullet lube...not a "shipping lube", a dry patch or two down the bore should be all that's needed.
 
Back in the 70's when my dad and I would shoot thousands of lead wad cutter's through our 38's we would plug revolver barrels and fill them with mercury. Dump the mercury back into it's container in the morning and pistol barrel was spotless as the lead was completely dissolved by the mercury. Tough to imagine this as these days as even small amount of mercury would be dealt with by a haz-mat team!
 
There seemed to be some light lead streaks as well as powder fouling. I probably should have just gone with WIPEOUT and it woudl have done the same thing.

I'm going to put the brushes back on the shelf.:p
 
Good old Hoppes #9 dissolves lead, also, and sure smells a lot better than those other things mentioned.
 
M12shooter said:
Back in the 70's when my dad and I would shoot thousands of lead wad cutter's through our 38's we would plug revolver barrels and fill them with mercury. Dump the mercury back into it's container in the morning and pistol barrel was spotless as the lead was completely dissolved by the mercury. Tough to imagine this as these days as even small amount of mercury would be dealt with by a haz-mat team!
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Did that too !

Also recall mixing powdered asbestos into a dough to use as insulation around the lead melting pot ! All on a workbench in the basement with no mechanical ventilation or any other kind of safety measures to speak of. Cast literally thousands of Lyman 421429 Keith bullets for the .44 Spcl / 44 Mag. down there. Ahhh, Mercury, Asbestos, Lead, toxic fumes of all sorts. But like that President said : "I didn't inhale, though !" Yeah, right.

Shouldn't I be dead or at least gravely ill ???? :rolleyes:
 
beretta boy said:
A little dab of Hoppe's No. 9 behind the ears and a bag of 100 once-fired Federal papers in the back seat for a car deodorizer ... you're good to go ;)
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To bring out the best in the paper hulls, it took a damp morning on a wheat field!
 
beretta boy said:
Did that too !

Also recall mixing powdered asbestos into a dough to use as insulation around the lead melting pot ! All on a workbench in the basement with no mechanical ventilation or any other kind of safety measures to speak of. Cast literally thousands of Lyman 421429 Keith bullets for the .44 Spcl / 44 Mag. down there. Ahhh, Mercury, Asbestos, Lead, toxic fumes of all sorts. But like that President said : "I didn't inhale, though !" Yeah, right.

Shouldn't I be dead or at least gravely ill ???? :rolleyes:
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Mercury wasn't all that hard to come across where I lived as a kid in the central interior as it was sometimes used to separate fine placer gold from black sand. I recall we used to use it to coat pennies to look like dimes but that was way back in the pre-metric era:).

;)Oh, good choice in a 44 bullet. I think in casting a class bullet like that, the fumes aren't toxic:p.
 
H4831 said:
To bring out the best in the paper hulls, it took a damp morning on a wheat field!
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That brings back memories. When I first acquired my little English straight stock SxS, an old fella that was a blacksmith in a local sawmill complex gave me an old box of Dominion 12ga. paper hulls in #7 shot. Not #7 1/2 but #7:( which I now wish I hadn't used on Pheasants in the Brooks AB area.
 
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