Hoppes Lead Remover

[tek4260]

Lucked up and found a 44 cal Hoppes Lead Remover kit today at a sports store. I guess they had it for a while because it was marked $6. It includes a rod with a ring on the end, several woven patches, an adjustable "plug" for the bore, and a cone shaped attachment for cleaning forcing cones. The only ones I can find online are for 41 cal. Have they been discontinued? It looks an awful lot like a Lewis to me. I see Midway still sells the woven disks.

 

[Rock]

Not sure about the Hoppes but Brownells bought the Lewis Lead Remover product and is according to them going to offer the product going forward. I was in dire need of patches for my .357 as I managed to lead the hell out of it with some old loads that I wanted to shoot up and they fixed me up.

There is nothing that works as well as my Lewis when a barrel is gummed up with lead, I have been shooting very little lead in the last twenty years and forgot what a job that can be. If you need additional calibers might want to try Brownells and just buy a kit.

 

[GP100man]

Try wettin the barrel down with your favorite solvent then wrappin a copper pot scrubber round an old brush till it fits snug .

A few passes is all it takes & it gets the forcin cone also !!!!

I put my lewis kit up some where ????

 

[Jeff H]

On the Coat tails of GP100man's thread, this is my lead remover. It never takes more than a little bit of scrubbing to clean my guns, but then my bullets are the right size and hardness, but that is another thread entirely.

 

[GP100man]

That`s awrite jeff H , I learned to shoot lead like anything else THE HARD WAY !!!!