True.

Or the worst, if they are cast from a dirty melt.

Years ago Elmer Keith wrote that cast bullets could be the hardest on barrels if they are dirty and contain grit, sand etc.

I then looked at some of the cast bullets a certain someone {...me...} had cast and I realized he was, as usual, right. I was a green youngster shooting 60 grit laps.

Since then, I've been persnickety about cleaning my melts.

Daryl is dead right, the clean lead bullet is a pussycat on barrels, but some greenhorns like I was might be turning silk purses into sow's ears.

I wonder who owns those guns now...?