RE: Barnes Bullets
My experience with barnes has been good. You must remember to completely clean your barrel of copper before using the Barnes bullets. This can take alot of time if you haven' t been cleaning your rifle regularly. When someone brings a neglected gun for me to clean I usually use Sweet' s 7.62 to remove all of the copper. I also use JB' s paste from Brownell' s on really stubborn copper. I' ve been handloading for a long time and most of the rifles that won' t shoot the Barnes good are because the barrel wasn' t clean when they began shooting. I would not go more than 20 rounds without fully cleaning the barrel while using the X bullets. This is just the experience that I' ve had.