With an old barrel that has been fed a diet of jacketed stuff and through which I plan a restricted diet of lead, I clean down to bare steel- pick your poison. Thereafter I merely use tight flannel patches and Ed's Red for cleaning after every range session. Adhering to a strict regimen of bullet selection/size/alloy/velocity has kept me free of leading issues for a loooooong time. I have several barrels that have never seen a jacketed bullet and which have been merely cleaned with the aforementioned tight patches and Ed's Red- and they shoot a treat.
I had lunch with Ed Harris last year and picked up his tab over his objections. I told him his gift of Ed's Red to the shooting world in general and me in particular more than made up for it.
Last edited by gnoahhh; 09/13/17.
