You ate some poorly cooked chicken, pooped out both ends at once, and concluded that chicken is inherently dangerous to eat.Thanks all. I admit I probably do clean too often.
My main concern with a .22lr revolver is lead fouling. I only shot lead round nose bullets in my .357 revolver *once*. 158 grain LRN target loads. After a box of 50, there was a bunch of lead fouling in the chamber throats and barrel, which took a whole lot of time and elbow grease to remove. Maybe it was just bad ammo, but I swore to never again mess with LRN ammo and have stayed with using jacketed bullets in my revolvers every since.
Since all .22lr ammo is soft lead, i'm concerned that I would be dealing with this sort of thing every time I had to clean a .22lr. Is lead fouling buildup in the chambers and around the forcing cone a bear to clean off? Or is .22lr a different animal, in that it doesn't leave a whole lot of lead behind if its quality ammo and the gun is properly timed, good cylinder gap, etc.?
Thank you,
I've done it. It worked. The main trouble is that then I'd have some jacket fouling that needed to come out - for some reason, I've found that even a tiny bit of copper fouling tends to cause severe leading if cast bullets are fired over it. Being as I'd much rather clean out leading than jacket fouling...I've heard/read about people doing that: shoot some jacketed rounds after a number of cast and it's claimed to blow all the leading out, if you have leading.
Any truth to this? I don't shoot jacketed thru my handguns at all, so, was wondering. Thanks.
I own a couple .38/357 revolvers. Love them, but also hate cleaning them. Compared to my auto pistols which take about 10 minutes to clean, I usually spend 30-60 minutes cleaning my revolvers, due to having a barrel plus 6 chambers to clean.
I'm thinking a .22lr revolver would be even more labor intensive, since it is a dirtier round and the potential for lead fouling in the chambers, forcing cone, etc. I really want to get a .22 revolver, but i'm concerned that it would be such a pain to clean that it would stay in the safe most of the time.
Am I overthinking this, or should I just stick to semi auto 22s?
I have had far too many instances of crud making cartridges tough to insert, or worse stick in the chambers, to not brush out my rimfire chambers after every use like you do.I used to be an obsessive overcleaner, no more. For my .22 revolvers I wipe the cylinder face, the extractor star, under the extractor star, the “square” of the frame, I wipe the forcing cone, and then I run a bristle brush a few times through each charge hole in the cylinder. I never clean the barrel unless something is really wrong.
That is a lot of chambers! I often will chuck a brush into a drill motor and give each chamber a quick spin. Then a pass through each one with a lightly oiled patch or Boresnake and I call the job done.I never before thought I overcleaned my 22LRs, but after reading this thread, it sounds like maybe I do. This Beauty doesn't make it out to the range often enough because I abhor cleaning it. My 22LR semiautos are WAYYYY easier to clean.
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I don't bother cleaning the outside of my revolvers but the chambers get a very good cleaning after every trip to the range.
One or two passes with a bore snake. That's it.What about the barrel?
There is some question about this. Spme attest to its value, others say it merely forces the lead into the grooves and sort of polishes it. Me, I use stainless steel brushes. While you may cringe at this, its a practice I've done for some forty years or more with no harmful effects.I've heard/read about people doing that: shoot some jacketed rounds after a number of cast and it's claimed to blow all the leading out, if you have leading.
Any truth to this? I don't shoot jacketed thru my handguns at all, so, was wondering. Thanks.