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I was given an old Aunshutz/CIL 22. Gun was in horrible shape but bore was cherry so I invested some money in bolt repair but continued to experience difficulty extracting spent cases. After a trip to the gunsmith, extraction was improved but not flawless. I was told bore was heavily leaded from using 22 shorts (It was an old farm gun obviously). Smith had removed much of the lead from the chamber???but some must still remain. I was planning on using some kind of a lead out product and brass cleaning brush and rod chucked in an electric drill. My question is will this work and what lead out product should one use? Normally I wouldn't bother but I have way more money in gun that it's worth so in for a penny -in for a pound AND rifle is stupidly accurate.
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i would not try to turn a brush in the barrel. anyway it needs to travel along the bore to clean the grooves. there is no lead solvent that i know of but i have used jb bore paste and it worked well in a badly fouled old bore.
 
Someone pls correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that "Wipeout" bore cleaner will help with the lead. It may take a few cleaning sessions. DON'T do anything with a checked rod and drill!

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porpoise said:
i would not try to turn a brush in the barrel. anyway it needs to travel along the bore to clean the grooves. there is no lead solvent that i know of but i have used jb bore paste and it worked well in a badly fouled old bore.
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Ditto. Metal fouling like lead is impacted into the grain of the steel. Some .22LR had a really thick wax lube, that might be some of the fouling.

One of my old target shooting friends told about using an Outer's Bore Cleaner and getting 'strings' of fouling come out of a barrel. The cleaner is only a reverse electrolysis device with some clever plugs. Goofle for ideas. When I was playing with this technique to remove heavy rust, the only place that had the right washing soda was Home Hardware.
 
It isn't the bore that is affected by firing a lot of .22 Short ammo, it is the front of the chamber that is dirty and affecting the LR case... just scrub it out with Hoppes #9 and a new bronze brush, full strokes through the barrel out each end.
 
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It isn't the bore that is affected by firing a lot of .22 Short ammo, it is the front of the chamber that is dirty and affecting the LR case... just scrub it out with Hoppes #9 and a new bronze brush, full strokes through the barrel out each end.
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Hey, just a little deserved praise here. I always like reading your posts.
A huge credit to this place. Very knowledgeable and great insight.
 
http://www.rrdvegas.com/rimfire-cleaning.html

I saved this article on rimfire stuff, I think it's very good. You will get various opinions on cleaning rimfires from never to lots. I would read this and come to your own conclusions.

I would guess you probably have a black ring and its probably in the chamber from shooting shorts. I would patch/soak in something you like and go to town on the first 2/3" with a 25cal nylon brush, like 100strokes and redo, let sit and another 100.
 
What I have done very successfully with my pistols is wrap some copper scouring pad material (not stainless!) around a bronze brush and start scrubbing. I scrub it a few times and push a couple of clean patches through. When the patches come out clean your done. It usually only takes a few times to remove the lead and it won't harm your barrel. TC
 
What happens when u fire 22 shorts in a long rifle chamber is corrosion just in front of the 22 short case the 22 LR case chambers past the corrosion and sticks in the rough portion of the chamber where the 22 shorts have been fired . Very difficult to repair the more 22 short fired the worse the damage . You can't lead up a bore on a 22 rimfire the pressure is not high enough lead is actually used as a lubricant example gas back in the day that's why lead was put in gas to lubrecate metal parts
 
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