The other day I was shooting my 1984 6" 25-5. I had a box of commercial reloads made by a local company that a friend gave to me. Normally I shoot my own reloads, but I figured I'd just use these up. The ammo shot fine, but when I went to clean the gun I discovered that ammo had made a leaded mess.
The bore and forcing cone cleaned up using my lead removal tool. However, the cylinder just won't come clean. They have a ring of stubborn lead right at the case mouth where the throat starts to taper. My lead remover tool won't quite get big enough and I've scrubbed this thing with everything I've got till I'm blue in the face. I'm slowly making progress using a .45-70 rifle brush and the small end of a bronze toothbrush. But its taking forever.
Anybody got any tricks for removing this lead without working my butt off?