Choke leading

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In general, which will give more leading in the choked area of an air rifle barrel, soft or hard lead pellets and would skirt thickness have any affect ?

I have a 0.22 LW heavily choked barrel and am just wondering which of my pellets is causing the lead flakes I find when cleaning the choke. Normally I alternate between 21 grain Baracuda Match at 875 fps and JSB 15.9 grains running at 920 fps. The Baracuda Match pellets seem to be made of harder lead and certainly have a much thicker skirt than the JSB's.
 
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Go out of "normal" and just shoot one type of pellet for a number of shots...then check for lead. You'll have to do that twice to determine any difference.
 
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