.22 LR ammo question

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Guys need help. I just purchased a new Ruger Mark III, went shooting and put through about 300 rounds of Fedral ammo. when I got it home to clean it, the weapon looked as if someone had drug it thorugh a sand storm. There was so much crap from what I assume was dirt rounds. Can anyone suggest a cleaner ammo? I realize that the weapon will need to be cleaned after every use or at least that was what I was taught, but it literally took an hour just to get all the crap out of the trigger so that it felt right again.

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In general, .22 ammo from all makers is dirty stuff. Avoiding the bulk pack/promo stuff will help a bit, but for the most part 300 rounds of anyone's ammo is going to dirty up a gun.

Joe
 
It's been my experience with my MK II that Remington bulk ammo is extremely dirty, and Rem in general is pretty dirty stuff, followed by Federal bulk, with Winchester bulk being fairly clean...Now, I'm not sure about most hyper-velocity stuff, but CCI Stingers seem to burn fairly clean.
 
Powder residue loves oil. If you over oil your gun you wll have a powder/oil mud after a couple hundred rounds. Oil lightly the parts that rub against each other, all other parts should have nothing but a wipe down with an oily cloth. If you didn't clean your new pistol before shooting as you should, the excess powder fouling was likly acumulated by the rust preventative the factory puts all over the gun for storage and shipping.
 
I've been using Dupont Performance Teflon Dry Film lube on my Rugers. Its $5 for a 4 oz bottle from Lowe's and I no longer get the oil-powder mud I used to get with Break-Free.

Easily go 1500+ rounds of Federal bulk pak or Remmington Golden Bullet bulk pak (forget Rem Thunderbolt, as it leads the barrel very badly after a couple hundred rounds) with noting more than a wipe down (I use a Q-tip to clean wipe clean the bolt and breech faces and a fresh squirt of the lube, wipe off the excess carrier and let it dry.

--wally.
 
CCI is pretty clean stuff and recommended by most gun manufactures
 
Snoogens

Recently bought (and still waiting to pick up), a Ruger 10/22 rifle for plinking. I always use S&B ammo in both of my 9mm pistols, as it is the cleanest, least corrosive, and least toxic round I could find (they even seal the primer and the cartridge with red lacquer, which is a nice touch). Also this Czech ammo is very accurate and super consistant. After buying the Ruger, I went on S&B's website and found a .22 LR round that has a jacketed bullet....listed as .22 LR HV, 36gr with a brass-nickeled cartridge and a lead-Cu bullet. I'm sure this ammo is going to be fantastic, as S&B has never let me down....something you might want to check out. Happy Holidays and good shooting!!
 
I went on S&B's website and found a .22 LR round that has a jacketed bullet....
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It's not jacketed. It is a copper wash over a lead bullet, same as CCI & Winchester Super-X uses.

Their .22 WMR is jacketed, same as many other brands, but nobody I know of makes heel-type jacketed .22LR bullets.

rcmodel
 
22's run best with little lubrication, many people over lubricate their pistols. Too much just gives the powder fouling somthing to stick to. Clean it well and lightly lubricate the metal to metal cantact parts whipe down the other parts with an oily rag (not dripping in oil) and you'll have a gun that's much cleaner when your are through shooting.

I shoot my target .22 usually all season (800 rounds or so) without needing to clean it beyond a simple wipe down of the exterior.
 
Snoogens

Thanks man, being a rookie of sorts, I didn't pick up on the Cu wash thing....still love the S&B ammo, and still love coming to this place, cause I get to learn from some true experts!!! thanks for being here guys.
 
I'll disagree with ".22 is dirty" as a general rule of thumb. Perhaps "Bulk pack .22 ammo is dirty" would be more accurate.

When you spend more money, you get better reliability, better accuracy, and clean burning. I generally spend four to six dollars per box of fifty cartridges and clean the gun* every one or two thousand rounds.

*I simply don't clean .22 bores any more. With decent ammo, most .22 bores don't foul and cleaning them is counterproductive.
 
Just kinda talking about those 550 bulk packs of .22s. I'm pretty sure there's a darn good reason throwing in an extra 50 rounds. That's about how many duds I've found in the most recent box I've bought. Most of these were stone cold duds too. No amount of refiring would make them go bang. A lot of sub velocity maxi squibs too. Oh well, you get what you pay for I suppose.
 
Which 550 gave you so many bad rds nitetrane98 ? I've had good luck with the Remington golden bullet packs...:confused:
 
try remington "CYCLONE" ammo. i happened to buy a box of 500 for my son's new rifle when we bought it (it was on sale) and it is the absoloute cleanest shooting 22 ammo i have ever come across. i just got another box of 500, this time to try in my guns, and if goes as good in my handguns, as it did in his rile, i am going to buy a case of 5000 of them.
 
I generally spend four to six dollars per box of fifty cartridges and clean the gun* every one or two thousand rounds.
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Wow, I reload 45acp for about six bucks per box. If I had to pay that much for .22LR that would run through my .22s, I'd sell all of those .22s and just shoot .45.

I shoot .22LR because it is cheap, fun and reliable. All three of my Rugers (two MkIIs and a MkIII) do just fine with the Federal bulk Pack stuff--maybe a misfire every couple hundred rounds, I can afford to throw away 2-3 out of every $13 box of 550.

I agree with the "clean a lot, lube a little" school of thought. I only disassemble mine every 500 rounds or so, and that is probably excessive. A quick wipe down of the chamber/feed ramp area, a patch down the bore and a wipe down of external surfaces seems to work fine for weekly range sessions (100-200 rds).
 
I shoot .22 because nothing in the world is as accurate. If I just wanted to make noise I'd buy firecrackers. :neener:
 
I've tried a bunch of ammo types and lube types. Lube: least is best. Ammo? Gee, I haven't found any really, really clean .22's, but Stingers (and other stuff with higher velocities) seem to "blow out" more of the .22 gunk.

I use Federal Premium Golds, mainly. I get the best groups for the buck with that. The Federal Value-Pack stuff (the 550-rd box) seems pretty good, but not (in my particular III) as good. The Federal AutoMatch bulk was awful. I mean, three of us, with stuff bought at different times, all had problems --- in three different gun models.

Have some fun and go broke: get some Lapua Midas. Amazing stuff. Not worth the $$ if you're not pro, I think, but I found it grouped better than anything else. Lot's of lube on it, though.

Aguila HyperVelocity is kind of interesting. It doesn't leave much behind.
 
I have found CCI MiniMags to be a very clean shooting, very consistent .22LR ammo. Another one that is unusually clean is Wolf Match Target. The lead bullet seems to be coated with some sort of lubricrant that feels like a very light penetrating oil. I don't know what it is exactly but the ammo is very accurate, and my guns are surprisingly clean after I'm done shooting it through them.
 
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