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Old 01-26-2010, 02:34 AM
Bert Man Bert Man is offline
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The flattened brass tubing tip from tdan works well. What I have used for many years to scrape leading around topstrap/forcing cone area is to flatten the neck portion of an empty bottleneck rifle case (I like .223) to scrape with. The width of the flat caseneck is just the right size and the casebody makes a nice handle. No need to even go to the hardware store. After any lead and hard fouling is removed I the use a brass toothbrush like mentioned earlier with a little powder solvent. Have used this method many times on blue and stainless revolvers with no damage to the surface; the brass is softer than gun steel.
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