cherryriver
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Much discussion about powders centers on their cleanliness. Not only do most of us dislike cleaning guns, but crudding up a gun makes it function worse.
There's rarely consensus, but one that might be true for pistol powders is that Vihta Vuori is pretty much the cleanest. I know I've pretty much settled on that as true. For revolver shooting, especially mid-bore stuff (.38 Special), I really don't care to use anything other than VV.
I submit as some sort of proof this picture of a patch.
Last weekend, I ran my King Cobra in a smaller IDPA match using my standard load of 4.8gr VV 320 and a Berry's 158gr round-nose plated. I fired about 60 rounds or so in the main match. Several cardboards were injured.
Here's a patch that was soaked in a CLP (FP-10) and worked through all six chambers a half-dozen times apiece, and then twice through the bore. The same patch.
Had the load been my other favorite, WST, it would have been completely black long before it even got to the barrel. Here, it's barely dingy.
Since converting to VV for the sixguns, I don't even recall where my range bag's chamber brush is.
Bill
There's rarely consensus, but one that might be true for pistol powders is that Vihta Vuori is pretty much the cleanest. I know I've pretty much settled on that as true. For revolver shooting, especially mid-bore stuff (.38 Special), I really don't care to use anything other than VV.
I submit as some sort of proof this picture of a patch.
Last weekend, I ran my King Cobra in a smaller IDPA match using my standard load of 4.8gr VV 320 and a Berry's 158gr round-nose plated. I fired about 60 rounds or so in the main match. Several cardboards were injured.
Here's a patch that was soaked in a CLP (FP-10) and worked through all six chambers a half-dozen times apiece, and then twice through the bore. The same patch.
Had the load been my other favorite, WST, it would have been completely black long before it even got to the barrel. Here, it's barely dingy.
Since converting to VV for the sixguns, I don't even recall where my range bag's chamber brush is.
Bill