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I have a double with very tight bores perfect for card wad loads, through which I've shot many hundreds. Getting the bores thoroughly cleaned of leading, though requires quite a bit of effort. In reality, as long as I use care to wipe out powder residue and keep them lubed, is there any harm in leaving lead in the bores?
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Try the stainless steel wool that Frontier sells. It works the best of any of the brushes, mops, and common steel wool that I have tried, fast easy.
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Agree with the Frontier pads. I wrap it around a bronze bristle brush and spin it with a electric drill. Performs miracles in a very short time. The Frontier material will not scratch the bore or blue. I don't know what it is made of but it is good.
Last edited by Joe Wood; 03/16/17 11:51 AM.
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The biggest concern is that moisture gains a toehold underneath the lead and pitting will occur. That is where most pitting in very old guns came from, IMO.
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Stan,
Do you think rust and pitting could occur in modern barrels that are heavily leaded? I have hunting companions that I doubt have ever cleaned their barrels.
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Get the lead out. Stan is right. I thought I had a shiny bore on a superpose only to find that underneath the lead the bore had been attacked and was pitted. I had to have the gun rebored. I had been using a bore brush so I never expected the barrel to be leaded up.
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I'm sure lead and graphite have filled imperfections in the bores of used guns I've acquired. Shocking to get it all out finally and see the tool marks, scratches, etc. Of course it's those rough places that catch the stuff to begin with.
As far as residue leading to corrosion, from personal experience nothing matches plastic esp. steel shot wad material. Go an entire season without cleaning with the bores getting wet occasionally, if not chrome it's virtually a guarantee there's rust.
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OK!! Lets have the shock horror and gnashing of teeth thing over and done with now!! Lead fowling of barrels and the removal of such. I use the tried and tested no hard work or vigorous barrel scrubbing Victorian gunsmiths method. Put a cork in the barrel breach pour half an egg cup of Mercury yes that is what I said Mercury via the muzzle cover with a polythene bag and seal with the palm of your hand or another cork and swill the said Mercury from end to end a dozen times. Hay presto all the lead fowling will have Magically disappeared with very little effort on your part!!
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Stan,
Do you think rust and pitting could occur in modern barrels that are heavily leaded? I have hunting companions that I doubt have ever cleaned their barrels. Most that I am aware of that are made "offshore" America are chrome lined now, Tamid, and immune to such ills, even the cheapest Turkish made guns. Most new shotguns sold anywhere are, probably. Any gun's barrel, rifles included, with chromoly steel, or any other steel that isn't stainless, and are not chrome lined, will lead and rust underneath. Corrosive primers and black powder got blamed for a lot of pits they didn't cause. Most of the worst are from leading, IMO. Every gun owner had the ability to wipe out a bore with a little oil. Not all knew to get the lead out however, or how to go about it. SRH
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Has this question been asked before?
Can we chrome line our old damascus, twist or fluid steel barrels?
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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