So I cleaned my 10-22 today...

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After being kind of lazy with it's cleaning. I have shot probably around 1000 rounds since the last clean and have been busy with another gun for the last while. The last 2 times I used it, I didn't clean it after and was surprised to find that when I cleaned it today, it was clean! I got some soot out of the receiver and cleaned the bolt ect. but the first patch I ran down the barrel came out clean. Explain. :popCorn:
 
Powder residue is dirty so the action will be filthy but the plated rounds keep the barrel clean but I willing to bet your chamber was dirty.
 
skoal said:
Powder residue is dirty so the action will be filthy but the plated rounds keep the barrel clean but I willing to bet your chamber was dirty.
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The outer face of the chamber was dirty, I couldn't get much out of the bore at all. I've been using Winchester M-22 rounds. I thought they were lead but I just read the box and it says "black copper plated" interesting. Shows you how much I know about 22 ammo, lol...
 
I ran over 30,000 rounds through my 10/22, without cleaning it. Not even once.
When my bro got his pal, I gave it to him. He was disgusted :).

I prefer chocolate chip, thank you.
 
Lol I just cleaned mine yesterday cause I had it apart. I go through armfulls of bricks between cleanings. My SR-22 barrel has a nice bore that doesn't lead up in the throat like some of my sporter barrels do.
 
Clean the barrel with copper "washed" rounds? I've tried it with jacketed rounds in other calibers too try and clean a leaded barrel. While it looked clean , all I had done was lapped a layer of lead under some copper fouling. But that with an actual jacket. Wouldn't think a copper wash would have the same effect as a copper jackets seeing how soft it is.
 
I know i've put around 2000 rounds through my 10/22 and only cleaned it 3 times so far and I was very surprised at how clean it was. A couple wipes and it was all it took, I shot mostly federal champion ammo with a bit of remington golden bullets.
 
my first 10/22 i got in 1984.
it got its first cleaning 5-6 years ago.
not counting shots of WD-40 into the action to 'get things moving again'.
and all that was while i grew up on a farm shooting every afternoon and all weekend, so 80,000 - 100,000 rounds?

rest assured my cleaning practices are much better now but goes to show you that those guns are tanks!

so..... where are these cookies i was led to believe where being handed out here?
 
You guys are crazy! Some of my target .22's don't even start shooting worth a damn until 500-1000 rounds are down the barrel.

I pretty much never clean my .22s barrels, actions and exteriors are clean and lubed.
 
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