Leading in barrel

[infideleggwelder]

just fired my first 50 reloads. cast 202 gr paper jacket bullet. 303 LE. 4 different powder charges.
when i cleaned the barrel, i found two slivers of lead that i could see and pick up. very tiny and thin. i think they could be from chambering the rounds from the mag, as they all did not leave the mag smoothly, most did. other than that, i found that IMR4895 is dirty. and no evidence of other pieces of lead. i`ll be posting the powder charges etc in a different post.
the paper jackets came off upon exiting the barrel, sometimes whole, but smaller and smaller confetti as the charges went up
is there anything else in regards to leading i should look for?

 

[just having some fun]

Paper patch a hole new art form

If you send me a pm of your load data I can look at it
I don't shoot PP but i do shoot cast

You need to go to
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?62-Smokeless-Paper-Patching

IMR 4895 can be very clean

 

[infideleggwelder]

so nobody looks for leading in their barrels after shooting cast?

 

[ryan]

so nobody looks for leading in their barrels after shooting cast?

Oh, I most definitely look for lead, first thing I do when working up a load. With paper patch done right, there should be none. If you push a few solvent dampened cleaning patches through, and find only black or light grey smears at first, but less to none after about maybe 6 patches, everything should be good.
With paper patch there should be less cleaning needed than grease groove or jacketed.