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<blockquote data-quote="jdgabbard" data-source="post: 2131482" data-attributes="member: 4614"><p>You have to remember, the reason why the Military switched over to lead in the first place was to combat leading when using smokeless powder. The traditional lubes could not be used as it would contaminate the powder. A soldier's ammo wasn't sized specifically to his barrel. And this caused lead fouling. So it was common practice, clean out the fouling after so many rounds. And this was time consuming, especially since the ammo they were using was barely lubed. So they switched to jacketed, as it required less maintenance. Later on in the 30s and 40s, better boolits were designed, which held a lot of lead, and wouldn't lead up a gun when used with smokeless powder, or contaminate powder. And thus the need for jackets was all but eliminated for modern boolits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdgabbard, post: 2131482, member: 4614"] You have to remember, the reason why the Military switched over to lead in the first place was to combat leading when using smokeless powder. The traditional lubes could not be used as it would contaminate the powder. A soldier's ammo wasn't sized specifically to his barrel. And this caused lead fouling. So it was common practice, clean out the fouling after so many rounds. And this was time consuming, especially since the ammo they were using was barely lubed. So they switched to jacketed, as it required less maintenance. Later on in the 30s and 40s, better boolits were designed, which held a lot of lead, and wouldn't lead up a gun when used with smokeless powder, or contaminate powder. And thus the need for jackets was all but eliminated for modern boolits. [/QUOTE]
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