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Originally Posted by elchivito
i mis-wrote octagonal, obviously it's polygonal. Anyway, Glock advises against shooting bare cast lead bullets in their stock barrels. The rifling is prone to increased leading from bare bullets. There's also the issue of the abrupt change from chamber to rifling in Glock barrels, another place, and a particularly not nice place, for excess lead buildup.
There is a brisk business in selling change-out barrels for Glocks to allow reloaders to safely shoot cast lead through them. I have a friend who thinks this is nonsense and shoots hot .40 reloads in his stock Glock. The number of alarmingly bulged cases that thing throws out gives me the willies.
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Correct. I used to shoot reloads out of my Glock. However, there were some lead bullets that COULD be shot out of them if you so desire according to some of the forums. Tried them and no real fouling issues. I had to shoot them because the range will NOT allow ANY copper on the bullet. Even if you were shooting 22LR you cannot do it. OTOH, you can shoot a 454 Casull if it is cast. Go figure.