Well got to go out shooting again this morning - I wanted to shoot the Renegade for it's sophomore run - see if it would should as well as it did last week.... One thing I did decide today, I am going to replace the factory black steel sights with a set of fiber optics. Saturday when I was shooting the sun was at my back and everything was lit up pretty good. This morning it was much darker and the drizzling on and off - seeing clay pigeons @ 100 was really difficult...

Next, yall know I am an ameture at this conical shooting and I have some concerns... I do not remember patches coming out of the barrel with as much lead on them as there was this morning. When I was shooting the GM stainless barrel - I really do not remember flakes of lead on the damp swab after a shot, I do not even remember them being the on Saturday the first day I shot this new (used) barrel. But! today after the very first shot really a lot of real bright lead flakes came up with the swab patch. I flipped it over and swabbed again and again more lead. I shot it 15 times this morning and each time there was flakes of lead... the amount of flakes did seem to taper off a bit the more I shot. After shooting Saturday I really worked the barrel hard to get it clean, but I did keep getting gray patches out of the barrel.

Question? taking your best guess is this lead coming off the bullets I am shooting or could it be old lead in the barrel flaking off?

I did use JB's borecleaning compound (100 strokes) Saturday also. Now here is another odd part I swear the barrel is getting smoother, as you push the conical down there are two ruff spots, right at the muzzle and a spot just before seating... I thought these were some mild pitting from the previous owner, but I honestly think they are getting smaller... could this be lead fouling? When you drop the bore light down you really can not tell much everything looks bright...

So the obvious question what would you use to free really old lead fouling if that is what it might be... I am taking it to the garage now and going to saturate it with Butch's....

Added note - this barrel does have the "W" for a Douglas barrel...

Here is a pic of the gun - it is really impressing me - you should have seen the shot it made today on a clay bird @ a 100 - even with these terrible sights....