Nickel Fouling?

Never heard of nickel plated or over wise bullets.

Please advise what one should be staying away from . . . surely the day will come when someone suggests these are the best ever!
 
Nickel plating is dangerous stuff; it is pretty high on the galvanic scale and will eat its way into other common alloys if given an electrolyte to work with.

Think of it as the exact opposite of galvanizing.

I'd be cleaning like crazy.
 
horseman2 said:
Never heard of nickel plated or over wise bullets.

Please advise what one should be staying away from . . . surely the day will come when someone suggests these are the best ever!
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Swiss have used them for 100+ years with GP11 (7.5x55). Most K31's have very clean unworn bores after firing thousands of rounds of these...
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GMC403 said:
Well, for anyone interested......

Applied, wait, scrub..... repeat.
M-Pro 7 (nope)
Wipe Out (nope)
Birchwood Casey (nope)
Remington 40-x (nope)
GunSlick (nope)





Patches clean after all the listed products, the right 2 after #9


Hoppes #9 (Yup!), never used Hoppes before. Worked like a charm (with some scrubbing)
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You should see what Hoppes #9 does to a Perazzi Nickle finish.
 
Rayleigh_Scattering said:
Nickel plating is dangerous stuff; it is pretty high on the galvanic scale and will eat its way into other common alloys if given an electrolyte to work with.

Think of it as the exact opposite of galvanizing.

I'd be cleaning like crazy.
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Cupro-nickel was the original jacket material that was gradually replaced by gilding metal (95% copper, 5% zinc) starting in the 1920s. The reason it was replaced was that it tends to leave very lumpy, hard to remove fouling in bores.

Swiss GP11 bullets use a thin plating of cupro-nickel over a steel jacket and do not typically cause the sort of metal fouling as other bullets that have a full cupro-nickel jacket.
 
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