Quote Originally Posted by scope eye View Post
The thing about fire forming with blanks, is that it still erodes the throat of your barrel just as if you fired off a round, so if you are going to wear out the barrel you might as well get use out of it, you lose approx 10% FPS velocity when fire forming with a live round, but have yet to see any accuracy loss when doing so.

Tanks Dean
Yes I know and understand this. It's still cheaper to buy a new barrel than shoot ammo up. Like I said before I would rather just get it over with. I would rather save the bullets for the ai loads.

barrel - .20 a round (approximately)
ammo - .42 a round (sierra mk 4831sc)

This does not mean that I won't use bullets or that I am against using bullets to fireform! I am simply stating that for getting many pieces fireformed quickly and cheaply the cream of wheat method works for me! It should not be a shock to anyone because it is a widely used method.