New bullet, new prob ...

[Lumpy Grits]

Jim-Watch out
Don is real good at set'n a 'hook'.
Gary

[sluggun pilgrim]

With respect to the leading and breech seating... I am no expert but have a few rifles that I shoot breech seated grease grooved bullets in. I wipe between shots and have found that if I follow the wiping with a dry patch then I'll get leading within 5 or 6 shots. Enough to create a flyer that is really obvious. If I do not use a dry patch then the problem goes away. The smaller calibers really seem to be sensitive to bore condition. Way more than my .45's.

I have one rifle that likes me to dry the bore when breech seating but that one uses paper patched bullets. :-)

Chris.

[sluggun pilgrim]

Hi Chris

I do clean between shots, 2 damp Ballistol and water and 2 dry. Will try loading on a wet barrel.

Cheers
sluggun pilgrim

[Lumpy Grits]

Keep that chamber DRY
Gary

[Don McDowell]

If you are not "riceing" your wet patches you may want to try that. Patches that are to wet don't mix well with grease groove bullets. Also ballistol is good for a lot of things, but a bore wiping solution not so much. A couple of solutions that do work well is 50-50 rv antifreeze and water, and 7-1 water and NAPA water soluble cutting oil.

[Gunlaker]

Don,

What does riceing patches mean? Some way of squeezing out the extra moisture?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Don McDowell]

Chris, yes you put a handful of patches in a potatoe ricer and squeeze the juice out of them.

[Gunlaker]

Ah, thanks.

Chris.

[sluggun pilgrim]

Hi Guys
Last Saturday i tried a couple of combinations. I damp Ballistol asnd one dry, leading after the 6 th shot. The tried 2 damp patches , hust dried the chamber (to avoid case seperation) After 10 shots ran some wipeaway through the barrel, no lead.

I'm not sure whether I can get the antifreeze or the NAPA water soluble cutting oil here in Australia.
Cheers sluggun pilgrim

[sluggun pilgrim]

Hi Don

Checked out the anti-freeze available here. All that is available is a product that is anti-freeze, anti-boil and anti coorsion. As we don't get very low temperatures here I presume that there isn't a market for straight anti-freeze.

Cheers sluggun pilgrim