I just started using Lead Away Cloth because I just recently acquired a Stainless Steel Revolver.
This stuff works - really well. So well in fact that it worries me a bit.
The instructions that come with the stuff state you can use it to clean a barrel of lead and copper. Cool.
I'm no fanatic about cleaning but I do what I consider a decent job of it after each firing. I usually start out with Hoppes #9 to get most of the crud out of a barrel, swab it dry until patches come out clean. Then I'll run BC Bore Scrubber (ammoniated) to get out lead and copper and follow up with some CLP. After that the bores shine. This procedure works well for me - or so I thought.
After getting the Lead Away cloth I figured what the heck. I'd run a patch or two thru a barrel - so I did and the thing came out as black as coal. So I ran a clean cotton patches thru the barrel until they came out clean and repeated with the lead away cloth. It too came out black as coal. (Note: with the exception of cowboy action shooting and a .22 rifle, I don't shoot lead in any of my weapons. Barrels that have never felt the pain of a lead bullet still result in a black patch).
QUESTION: *** - can there be that much lead and copper still in a barrel that has previously been scrubbed or is the cloth actually chemically reacting with the steel and slowly eating it away?
Worrysome...
This stuff works - really well. So well in fact that it worries me a bit.
The instructions that come with the stuff state you can use it to clean a barrel of lead and copper. Cool.
I'm no fanatic about cleaning but I do what I consider a decent job of it after each firing. I usually start out with Hoppes #9 to get most of the crud out of a barrel, swab it dry until patches come out clean. Then I'll run BC Bore Scrubber (ammoniated) to get out lead and copper and follow up with some CLP. After that the bores shine. This procedure works well for me - or so I thought.
After getting the Lead Away cloth I figured what the heck. I'd run a patch or two thru a barrel - so I did and the thing came out as black as coal. So I ran a clean cotton patches thru the barrel until they came out clean and repeated with the lead away cloth. It too came out black as coal. (Note: with the exception of cowboy action shooting and a .22 rifle, I don't shoot lead in any of my weapons. Barrels that have never felt the pain of a lead bullet still result in a black patch).
QUESTION: *** - can there be that much lead and copper still in a barrel that has previously been scrubbed or is the cloth actually chemically reacting with the steel and slowly eating it away?
Worrysome...