onondaga
posted this
02 March 2014
http://www.castbulletassoc.org/view_user.php?id=6171>Pigslayer
I have not had any leading with either Minie or R.E.A.L bullets. I have pushed the 250 gr 50 Cal. R.E.A.L. the hardest with 90 gr. of Alliant BMZ substitute and had no leading. I lubed that bullet with 45:45:10 only, 2 coats.
The bore on both my Lyman barrels, the 1:60 and the 1:32 twist barrel are exceptionally high quality, polished bores and came that way from the factory in Italy. I didn't polish those bores either! They are both just slick shiny and easy to load with either patched ball , minie or sabot. That may be part of the reason that I get no leading. I have shot mostly pure 99.9% lead but once in a while I use soft pistol range scrap lead that tests 7-8 BHN. Never fired anything harder than that from an ML rifle.
I do swab between shots once with a snug, dry sweat cloth patch on a ribbed jag for substitute powder fowling but will use a different cleaning between shots with authentic BP. After each shot with BP, I swab twice with a soap/water patch then twice with dry patches. So, I actually get the bore pretty clean between shots when I am shooting BP. The soap/water solution I use is Dawn dish washing liquid and water 1:1 . I really use a lot of 2 x 2” sweat cloth patches when I am shooting ML but I have a nice old paper cutter and I get the sweat cloth from sweat pants from the Goodwill.
Gary