moooose102
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i know there are many products out there that disolve copper from barrels. but, is anything made that actually disolves lead? i just bough a new rifle, put 150 rounds through it today. a henry h001 .22. all straight lead bullets. at the end of my plinking, it felt like i was shooting higher pressure rounds. but they were all from the same brick, so i know that isn't the case. i am thinking that lead must have been starting to accumulate in there. don't ask me to look, i couldn't see lead or copper build up without cutting the bore open and looking at it with a microscope (my eyes are just getting old) . i did not notice accuracy dropping off, but that was probably because the last 45 shots were pretty much rapid fire plinking at cans. so if i missed a few, and i did, i just chalked it up to rapid fire. not aiming as good as i could have. most cleaning solvents say they remove copper, lead, and powder residue from a barrel, but is it going to be me scrubbing with a brush, or the solvent doing the work to actually remove the lead?