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Copper fouling location in barrel
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<blockquote data-quote="Tac-O" data-source="post: 2278499" data-attributes="member: 109994"><p>Well I tried out the Tubbs TMS bullets, which is what they recommended. All grit #3. They said to shoot 7-10 of these. I followed their website instructions for a lapped barrel and cleaned after every 3 shots. </p><p></p><p>It did look like it smoothed out some of those reamer marks, but not completely. </p><p></p><p>No improvement in copper fouling that I could tell. It now shows copper fouling slightly closer to the throat than before also. </p><p></p><p>I attempted to do a seating test with some Hornady interlock bullets I'm wanting to hunt with and accuracy was abysmal. Granted, the brass was virgin and I hadn't ran it through a FL die... Only a neck expander. I don't think that would make that big of difference though. I went all the way from 0.020 (or what was... I haven't measured distance to lands again yet) to 0.060. </p><p></p><p>So... Not sure what to do. Just let the copper fouling ride and see if it stabilizes somewhat, try 0.070-0.110 with these bullets, switch to my other CC hunting bullets, throw this gun in the trash and archery hunt only...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tac-O, post: 2278499, member: 109994"] Well I tried out the Tubbs TMS bullets, which is what they recommended. All grit #3. They said to shoot 7-10 of these. I followed their website instructions for a lapped barrel and cleaned after every 3 shots. It did look like it smoothed out some of those reamer marks, but not completely. No improvement in copper fouling that I could tell. It now shows copper fouling slightly closer to the throat than before also. I attempted to do a seating test with some Hornady interlock bullets I'm wanting to hunt with and accuracy was abysmal. Granted, the brass was virgin and I hadn't ran it through a FL die... Only a neck expander. I don't think that would make that big of difference though. I went all the way from 0.020 (or what was... I haven't measured distance to lands again yet) to 0.060. So... Not sure what to do. Just let the copper fouling ride and see if it stabilizes somewhat, try 0.070-0.110 with these bullets, switch to my other CC hunting bullets, throw this gun in the trash and archery hunt only... [/QUOTE]
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