He walked back to 200 yard to take the picture!!! :-> they are 1.5' in diameter, they are "dinner plates", not saucers.
Chap

See there comicaloader? You can't play yer games here, everybody got ya figgured out!!!!

gleason.chapman

No No - that is not true.... I stood at the bench and I actually Zoomed in with the camera cause I wanted to make sure you could see dem littl' disks and they are little....

I believe ya Sabotloader... but then I can be fooled real easy. [:-]

cayugad

Com' on Dave your the one with all the credibilty around here - I needed a second...

Next time I am going to get a picture if the 100 - 150 yard ones and they are really a long way back there....

It is now 8:15pm - 4 hurs since I started cleaning the bore, well there was a 1/2 hour break for dinner - Terry did one of the quick and easy microwave things - I sayed they were boiled potatoes, but the were microwaved and salad - did take long but any...

I just got to clean two clean patches from the barrel... I won Yea!...

And you're always calling everyone else competative.

WOW!! that just does not seem right. Were you using good solvent in the barrel and a brush?

Are the two bad/rough spots still in the bore?

I've not had any leading deposits to deal with in a long time. I have seen conicalscast frombad alloy leave a glistening coating of almost crystalline lead flakes. Looked bad but came right out - was shooting an Encore at the time. My own fault for tinkering with the melt.

Rattus gives his bores an overnight soak - borefilled with kerosene. Then scrubs them out.

Two methods for lead removalI've read about but haven't used -

1. Chore Girl copper pot scrubbing pad. Oversized chunk pressed into the bore then pushed through with cleaning rod. Several passes. Will cut the leadwithout so much as scratching the steel.

2. Powder charge, wad, 20 or 30 grains of Cream of Wheat tamped down. Fire two or three loads. Cream of Wheat apparently forms a gelatinous glob that will scrape the old lead right out of the bore.

Can't vouch for either but both seem plausible.

cayugad

Started with JB's - 25 strokes
Hot water bath
Dry patch
Out to the shop
Storked the barrel with a saturated Butches patch... it came out black...
Dry patched til got a half way decent patch
Another Butch's satuated patch - it came pretty black but not as bad as patch one
Let it sit for 30 minutes
Clean patches until bore was dry they were ugly
Satuarated Butch's patch - very dark
Bronze brush - 25 strokes
Clean patches until dry -they came out BLACK...
Another butch's patch - dark
Braonze brush - 25 Stokes
Clean patches until dry - black to light black
Back to the shower and a hot water bath with a really strong degreaser
Patched dry - patches from dark to grey....
Slip 2000 patches - patches grey
Windex patches - patches grey
Degreaser patches grey but getting lighter
Let it set for 30 minutes
clean patches to get degreaser out - light grey
Saturated slip 2000 patches - 3 of them....
emptied the trash and out to the curb for morning pickup
wrote a response to you
Slip 2000 patch -Near clean
dry patches - getting whiter
Slip 2000 patch - clean
All follow up patches clean....

I won...

Also remember Saturday I could never get it clean and I gave up knowing I was going to shoot it today, but onSaturday almost the same routine

I think it had been neglected for a long time... now I do not know if I want to shoot it again...