Leading in chamber of Uberti Henry

[Pancho Peacemaker]

I have been shooting lots of .45 Schofields in my Uberti Henry replica (chambers for .45LC).  They cycle great, however, I am developing a significant leading problem in my chamber.  I'm sure this is due to the shorter OAL of the Schofield cartridges.  The problems has gotten to the point where .45 LC cartridges are difficult to chamber.

Any good home remedies for this?

I'm all ears.


Pancho

[Gypsy Bob]

the remedy is CLEAN IT....

[FriscoCounty]

Here is an interesting article on leading causes:
http://www.leverguns.com/articles/leading.htm

You may want to mike your .45 Colt and .45 Schofield bullets and see if there is a difference in diameter.

[Abilene]

It might be a buildup of hard carbon fouling rather than lead.  In any case, besides the standard methods of using cleaners and brushes, here's a couple of ideas.  First is to take a 45LC empty fired case (not resized) and insert that into the chamber.  The edges of the expanded brass may tend to shave away some of the buildup.  I've done this in pistols (after shooting 38 spcl in .357) but not rifles, but it might help.  Also, if you load up some BP rounds in 45 Schofield and shoot them out of the rifle that may clean out the ring.

[Pettifogger]

Anytime you shoot a short shell in a longer chamber you get build up.  E.g. .32 S&W Long/.32 Mag, .38 Special/.357 Mag, .44 Special/.44 Mag, etc.  As already noted, the solution is to clean the gun.

[Coffinmaker]

Along with the suggestion by Abilene, the other "case" method is to "bell" the case as if to reload in the reloading press and then chamber the case.  The "belled" mouth of the case will serve to scrape out the carbon "ring around the chamber."  As noted before, it's not lead buildup, it's burned carbon fouling.

Coffinmaker

[Montana Slim]

Pancho, A local pard has been shooting 45 Schofield (BP) in his Uberti 1873 for the past several years & lately his rifle has began to have chambering problems with that load. He regulalry cleans the chamber and still the problem persists. The rifle stopped chambering .45 Colt successfuly as well. After several consultations with gunsmiths, the verdict is the chamber is "shot". He's decided to rebarrel the rifle. I may not have all the particulars correct, but that is the "jist" of his experience (FYI)..

Slim

[Dead I]

Anytime one shoots the wrong cailber in one's gun it becomes a problematic.  Solution?  Shoot 45 colts in your rifle.  Sure you can try a harder bullet and slower velocity, but you will solve your problem, if you shoot the correct round.  Least that's my 2 cents worth. 

[John William McCandles]

Is there any way of cleaning the build up from the chamber to keep this from becoming a problem?
I've been contemplating converting my '66 in .44 Spl to .44 Russian but won't if this is a normal result.


Regards
JW