Dirty, Filthy, Icky Rimfire

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Took a pair of my .22s out on a date tonite. I'd forgotten just how filthy they are to shoot. My poor Walther P22 and AR-15 w/ M261 adapter and lungs are now coated in smokey grey gunk. Yuck. Doesn't anyone make any clean .22LR? If I wanted that sickly sweet taste in the back of my throat for the next 2 days I'd mix up some .38spl reloads with Bullseye. Anyone who believes these things use "smokeless" powder needs his eyeballs and nose hole checked.

Of course I did get to make that funny bang bang noise 3 or 4 hundred times for the cost of a box and a half of .40S&W ammo so I guess it wasn't all a loss.

Seriously though, Does anyone make any relatively clean burning .22LR?
 
CCI Mini-mags are a clean burning lot.

This may not help you (and sheer fun aside) but I realized long ago that the manual actions (bolt-lever-pump) keep their actions a LOT cleaner than semi-autos.

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Yup. Just the nature of the beast with 22 rimfire autos. They make a mess. The closed action guns keep the gunk in the barrel so not as bad to clean up.
I have a Ruger MKII that's made several range trips without a cleaning and it's due an oil change before the next trip or else it will start to jam for sure. Ya gotsta pay if ya wanna play!
 
Don't know what you are shooting gun wise but my 10-22 has over 30,000 various rounds through it without a major cleaning (just some gun scrubber once in a while) and functions fine unless I use Winchester. Ba Most of the rest of my .22's only get cleaned every 2-3 years and I shoot LOTS of .22.
Some brands a worse than others but a good wipe down is generally enough.
 
I like what Microlon Gun Juice has done for my Ruger 22/45 Mk III (which only gets fed CCI Minimags). Before treating it, 200 rounds or less would crud up the insides of it something awful; greasy, gritty black crud throughout, difficult to clean from all the little corners.

After treatment with Gun Juice, the only thing there is a very thin film of gray stuff, resembling graphite powder, and it doesn't accumulate. I no longer have to strip the gun at all; just clean the bore and that's it.
 
Everything but the Rem GB bulk stuff (needed to be cleaned every few hundred rounds) has been relatively clean in my Marlin 60. Minimags, Maximags, Stingers, Winchester bulk, Federal bulk, and anything from Aguila has worked great for me and have gone several thousand rounds between cleaning using these rounds.

I've only had the "icky" feelings with Remington.
 
Besides that lovely aroma, the thing that sets the .22 apart these days is the fact that you can afford to shoot it. For that matter, you have at least a decent chance of finding, and then buying, .22 ammo at a relatively reasonable price, all else being equal. My 9mm handguns have been in lock-down for a long while; at least my .22s are seeing the light of day outside the safe from time to time. And that alone is worth a little grit and dirt.
 
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