Reeder Custom Guns - Cleaning out lead with jacketed bullets

As a kid my dad would always shoot a cylinder of jacketed bullets after every box of lead bullets to clean out the leading. Does anyone have any thoughts on this old practice?

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grooves of the barrel. Then it is twice as hard to get out.

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to drive a slightly oversize soft lead round ball through the bore and it would push out most of the leading. Then some work with a brass brush, then Hoppes Number 9 and some patches.

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gas check. We shoot 700 to 800 rounds a week test firing our custom guns and I shoot nothing but gas check bullets from Montana Bullet Works.

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RAY THOMPSON CAME ALONG AND DESIGNED HIS GC BULETS FOR LYMAN THE .357 WAS A SPECIALLY DIFFICULT CHALLENGE. HIS #358156GC IS STILL THE BEST STD WEIGHT BULLET FOR THE .357.

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My fire-forming loads utilizing “Cream-O-Wheat” or maybe it was Malt-O-Meal (rice cereal anyway) for some reason scoured out the bores mirror clean! The compressed rice acts like a solid projectile in the bore and seemed to remove any traces of lead fouling.

I did not purposefully use it on a badly fouled bore but it was an observation. Maybe a million dollar idea, cleaning rounds! Lol. For giggles you might take note on how they fare. You do NOT want to use any filler in a bottleneck case. Even if the old Lyman manual says it’s ok. Perhaps their very light charges let them get away with it. When pushed hard the cereal acts like a solid.

Otherwise it’s bronze or brass scrubbing pad material on a stainless cleaning brush. Some work but effective.

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