The Smoking Gun

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mrlee185

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I bought some 158 Gr. lswc for my 357 at a gun show last month. So far I have shot around 300 rounds, with bullseye
3.5 to 3.8 Gr. After poping off 6 rds. I have a cloud of smoke
like I'm standing in a room of cigar smokers at there convention.
I know its the lswc because I tried 158Gr. fp no problem.
Is there any thing I can do to fix this or just live with and switch
to some other lswc
 
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It's the combination of the lube, Bullseye powder and humidity. Also, if there's no breeze the cloud hangs with you. Here in windfarm Iowa we don't have that problem so much!

Bullseye is a good powder, just dirty. You can try cleaner powders like Clays or Vihtavouri N310.
 
I overlubed my 158 lswc's with a double coat of Lee's alox. I have also about a 100 to go through before the new batch. I just hope we don't shoot on the same range and time....could cause a traffic accident....lol
 
+1 on lube causing smoke. The older Beeswax based lubes can make you think you are shooting black powder. I have some .25 cal rifle loads of cast bullets with old Lyman black lube that put our a cloud of smoke and have a curl of smoke coming out of the muzzle.
 
I've got some .45s I loaded up with black powder that I shoot in a colt saa.One cylinder full coats the gun in a nice layer of soot.A good breeze helps.
 
At frist I thought I did something wrong, I'll just use them up.Its just
I shoot indoors so I go to range when its slow there so I don't smoke
everybody out.
 
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