Overheating a Ruger Mark II/III Bull Barrel?

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Is it possible to damage the bull barrel on a Ruger Mark II/III pistol by overheating it?

I am not talking about shooting a thousand rounds through it fast, or some kind of torture test, but say I am shooting 200 rounds over the course of half an hour, and the barrel starts to get kind of hot. Not too hot to touch, but hot enough to say "that's getting pretty hot" when you wrap your fingers/palm directly around the barrel.

Will this ruin the barrel doing it once in a blue moon? Or am I being too cautious? :redface:
 
In my opinion you couldn't overheat these even if you wanted to. Unless you had maybe 10 mags pre loaded and rapid fired them all. :)
 
Overheating is when the barrel is between red to white hot, and you can see the projectiles travelling through the barrel like x-ray vision.



Of course, you would need to be in the military, on a military range, using military belt fed ammo, full auto. Then you might also get to experience either a swift kick in the arse, or a "left, right, left, two feet and a heart beat"...
 
G P said:
In my opinion you couldn't overheat these even if you wanted to. Unless you had maybe 10 mags pre loaded and rapid fired them all. :)
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That won't do it either. My 9 and 11 year old girls banged off almost 1/2 a case of American Eagle with an Ultimate clip-loader rapid fire and never got my Mark 11 past luke warm.
 
I put a box of federal 525's through mine in less than an hour last trip to the range, with my ultimate clip loader. And I just have a regular barrel. It was barely warm.

Now, my 45acp glock, after 3-4 magazines quickly, the front of the slide turns white, and the slide gets pretty warm by the muzzle. But even that doesn't stop me. Pistols are by nature very forgiving of heating up.
 
tjhaile said:
I doubt you could get any rimfire hot enough to cause barrel damage.
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I've used 4 of the 8-shot magazines & 1 25-shot ramline in my Henry AR-7 in rapid succession :yingyang: ; if that didn't make the "infamous" lined-barrel too hot to handle, I doubt a Ruger bull-barrel would be any worse for wear :), given reloading times. ;)
 
When water sizzles on the barrel, is is beginning to get hot.
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Don't buy a used gun from this guy .... :(

Overheating is when the barrel is between red to white hot, and you can see the projectiles travelling through the barrel like x-ray vision.
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Wow! Definately never consider buying a used gun from this guy.

FWIW a barrel that is too hot to hold onto is being damaged with each shot. This is way cooler than it takes to boil water.
 
OldRanger said:
Overheating is when the barrel is between red to white hot, and you can see the projectiles travelling through the barrel like x-ray vision.


Of course, you would need to be in the military, on a military range, using military belt fed ammo, full auto. Then you might also get to experience either a swift kick in the arse, or a "left, right, left, two feet and a heart beat"...
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That sounds like the "endurance/sustained-fire" testing they used to do with M-60's.....:yingyang:
 
I love these replies.......the simple answer to the original question is NO.

You will not damage the barrel by overheating it while shooting it. Not even close. You may get worse (or better) groups when it is warm, but it will not damage the barrel at all.

I have seen hundreds of pistols get too hot to touch the barrel from rapid fire competition (specifically IPSC), and the barrels continue to last for tens of thousands of rounds accurately. You will NOT ever get your .22 barrel to get that hot no matter how rapidly you fire it. You are fine.:D

Worry more about cleaning the rifling properly and not damaging the crown. Those are elements that will damage the barrel.
 
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