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[gunny4053]

scooter123,
After re-reading your earlier post, I see where I was in error. As for the Choreboy, you only use a short section of a single strand wrapped around an old bore brush. It doesn't take much. Either way, looks like the OP has enough options to get his firearm up and running.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Yep, grocery store. Will be in the dish soap section by the sponges and scrub pads. Make sure you get the all copper one. Some of them are copper coated steel, which could scratch your bore.

Will the plastic ones work

 

[dennisvet]

Lead remover

The best I have ever used on my guns is Birchwood Casey Lead Remover and Polishing Cloth. I have used about everything else I could find, but to me, this is the best. I hope it helps you.

 

[rsrocket1]

Dumb question, but you are using a bronze bore brush aren't you?.

A bronze bore brush does not have the same mechanical scraping action that a snug fitting bore mop has with a few strands of bronze wool or Chore Boy. With the latter, you are essentially using a "soft chisel" to scrape the lead off the surface of the barrel and the snugness of the mop has no "give" the way a bronze brush does inside the barrel.



Being that the bronze/copper is harder than the lead but softer than the steel in the barrel, the strand beats the lead, but loses to the rifling so the lead comes off, but the rifling does not get damaged.

I've since washed the mops and now use Hoppes No.9 to get the soot out before "mopping" the barrel. They stay cleaner longer.

 

[PHolster]

A bronze bore brush does not have the same mechanical scraping action that a snug fitting bore mop has with a few strands of bronze wool or Chore Boy. With the latter, you are essentially using a "soft chisel" to scrape the lead off the surface of the barrel and the snugness of the mop has no "give" the way a bronze brush does inside the barrel.

Being that the bronze/copper is harder than the lead but softer than the steel in the barrel, the strand beats the lead, but loses to the rifling so the lead comes off, but the rifling does not get damaged.

I've since washed the mops and now use Hoppes No.9 to get the soot out before "mopping" the barrel. They stay cleaner longer.

I am aware of that, I only asked since the OP didn't say anything about using one. I always go the easy route first, the step up to more aggressive cleaning. I have always been able to get the lead out of my 22 barrels using a bore brush and a cleaning jag. I have not yet needed to go the Chore Boy route, but it has always been a potential option for me. The jag helps tremendously by the way.

 

[AGoyette]

I have always just used Hoppes. It has never failed to get my gun clean.

 

[rsrocket1]

I have always just used Hoppes. It has never failed to get my gun clean.

Then I guess you've never had REAL leading in your barrel.

 

[ma deuce]

I for one will never shoot Thunderbolts again. I had a bunch of them I bought when I couldn't find anything else. They screwed up two of my guns within a month of each other, the first a Ruger Mark II in which a squib round somehow left a whole chunk of a bullet lodged in the barrel, the second my brand-new-to-me pre-18, which got such bad leading within 50 rounds that it started key-holing. I was panicked! I tried to give away my remaining 300+ rounds of the stuff on the Maryland Shooters website, and it was a long time before a taker came forward.

 

[Jaymo]

Vinegar/peroxide mix creates lead acetate (lead sugar), not lead oxide.
The Romans used lead acetate as a sweetener.
You could too, if you don't mind that whole nervous system damage thing.

 

[AGoyette]

Then I guess you've never had REAL leading in your barrel.

I guess not then rsrocket. You would guess sometime between now and 1986 between plinking and competing, we would have run into that, but no. We used to only use lead bullets for years too. I have never failed to have my barrel mirror finish clean. Don't know what I am doing right, but I think I will keep it up.

 

[rsrocket1]

Good for you AGoyette. I personally have never experienced leading in any of my 22's either and I did shoot a box of 500 Thunderbolts through 3 different rifles once without problems.

When you experiment with cast bullets in centerfire rifles and handguns, leading is a definite possibility once in a while. But just like a squib, while its best to prevent it, dealing with it can be easy enough not to be afraid of it.

To the OP, it sounds like your bore size may be bigger than the typical 22. Have you ever experienced leading before?

 

[Bkreutz]

I don't shoot .22 much, but when I do, I always get a leading problem in my P22 (must be the crummy ammo). I've used one of these LEWIS LEAD REMOVER | Brownells on my centerfire pistols for over 30 years, I just wish they made a .22 version.