Revolver cleaning and tools
I finally got around to hitting my Dillon 550B and loaded up a ton of my favorite 38 Special hand loads. I’m amazed at how well I shoot with some of these bullets because I’m usually doing most of my training with semi-auto guns and the ammo is rarely very accurate. Hits are usually what I am looking for in defensive shooting, but when I am shooting a Smith & Wesson Model 19, I can actually go for a bulls eye. A few months ago I dug up a bunch of SWC lead bullets and used up a full pound of Unique gun powder.
The one bad thing about getting in a good range day was that I had to clean all of gun gun out of my gun before I put it away. I don’t mind shooting lead in revolvers, but I won’t do it in semi-autos anymore. I used my Otis gun cleaning kit because not only did it have the brushes to get the job done, it had a nice scraper to get in to the areas that needed to be cleaned. When I used a 1911 and shot lead bullets, I found compacted lead in so many areas that I didn’t think the gun would be reliable if I didn’t get it all out. The extractor areas can be a tipping point if you gunk them up.