Never used any plated bullets, shot 1000's of coated bullets in several different calibers. I coat my own cast bullets shooting around 300# of bullets a year. Here's what a 686 looks like after shooting 200 rounds of 38spl. The load was a 185gr hp/3.5gr of bullseye/federal sp primers. It's nothing to shoot 700/800 rounds of the load above in any of my revolvers before they need cleaned. The bbl's take 1 wet patch/1 dry patch to clean (no brush). The cylinders start to form a carbon ring in them and hoppe's #9 and a couple quick brush strokes take car of them.
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