Magnumite
Ultimate Member
If you are shooting lead bullets, the loads will be smokey and dirty. Much of the smoke you see is the wax vaporizing. If you are shooting very low pressure loads and lead bullets for caliber, it will be a dirty load - example, 2.7 grain BE with a lead wadcutter in 38 Special, 230 grain lead RN and 3.5 grains BE in 45 ACP. Increase the powder charge some and things get cleaner. Like tromping the accelerator in your car to ‘blow the carbon out”, higher temps and pressures burn cleaner. But the lead is still there, even in the primers, so the smoke and fouling will prevail. Want a real clean up job? Fire 100 rounds of primer powered rubber or plastic bullets from your favorite roscoe. Or just primers.
Changing from lead to jacketed bullets in 38 Special and 45 ACP using Bullseye or Unique leaves a fairly clean gun as in, “I’ll clean it when?”. Those guns get lubed once or twice just about every range session so there is no maintenance neglect. Fouling and debris isn’t an issue as far as unnecessary cleanup goes when using jacketed bullets, though Unique does emit a little haze. Virtually all the excessive smoke is gone.
Yes, I am like a modern Elmer Keith. Give me a pallet of Bullseye, Unique, 2400...and, I’m modern, H110...and I am happy. Experience has told me never change a winner.
Changing from lead to jacketed bullets in 38 Special and 45 ACP using Bullseye or Unique leaves a fairly clean gun as in, “I’ll clean it when?”. Those guns get lubed once or twice just about every range session so there is no maintenance neglect. Fouling and debris isn’t an issue as far as unnecessary cleanup goes when using jacketed bullets, though Unique does emit a little haze. Virtually all the excessive smoke is gone.
Yes, I am like a modern Elmer Keith. Give me a pallet of Bullseye, Unique, 2400...and, I’m modern, H110...and I am happy. Experience has told me never change a winner.
