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Originally posted by Bullitholz:
Go to the supermarket and pick up some "choreboy" pads, there are other brands as well but these are the copper pot scrubber pads that are round shaped. When you get them home take some tin snips or old scissors and cut a chunk out of one. The strands will fall all over the place so cut these over a trash can. Once cut you will have a bunch of wads of copper "wool", much like steel wool but coarser.

First clean the bore with some hoppes and a few patches to get the powder residue out, leaving the lead behind to contend with next.

Take some of this and wrap it around and over an old bore brush, use an old one as you'll be ruining it in the process of doing the next step. Next use the brush to run back and forth through the bore, do this over a peice of white paper so you can see all of the lead particles that the "wool" is cutting out of your bore.

The copper is softer than steel so it will not harm the interior finish in the barrel. since it's sharp, all of those "edges" glide through and cut the lead right out.

I've done this on quite a few barrels that I thought were lead free and still managed to get lead out, works like a charm.