Fouled Barrel

Scott Max Danger

Scott Max Danger

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Got a little crazy at the range and fouled my barrel. Is there any trick to clean it out without doing damage ? It was so bad that my brissle brush actually got stuck in there and i had to really press it through. :mad:
 
OK, I've got to ask - how do you "foul" a .22 barrel to the point you have to force a bore brush through???

If it seems that I'm perplexed it's because I am. I have .22's that I shoot a LOT, and some of them have never had a brush down the bore ever, and I'm talking 10's of thousands of rounds!!! I still have the first 10/22 I ever bought and that one rifle alone has at least 40K through it - nothing but a pull-through every once in a while...

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blake
 
Sustained rapid fire ! Gun loved federal 525 pack but i switched to cci blazers and the gun started getting inaccurate and dropping so i called it a day and went home to clean. Gsg 1911 :eek:
 
mudgunner49 said:
OK, I've got to ask - how do you "foul" a .22 barrel to the point you have to force a bore brush through???

If it seems that I'm perplexed it's because I am. I have .22's that I shoot a LOT, and some of them have never had a brush down the bore ever, and I'm talking 10's of thousands of rounds!!! I still have the first 10/22 I ever bought and that one rifle alone has at least 40K through it - nothing but a pull-through every once in a while...

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blake
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Trust me I've seen some ugly looking barrels on the .22... 1 guy had to have put 5,000+ rounds of really cheap lead ammo through 1 firearm I saw it was 1 big lead ball by the time he was done. You almost couldnt see light through it was so bad. He was shooting remington thunder bolts and it wasn't the first time I've seen that ammo do that.

Best regards,
Scott
 
Yes the cci blazers are deffinitly a down grade from the clean federals. I'd never run thunderbolts even in my 10/22. Just dirty garbage ammo. I guess i should settle down a bit and let the gun cool down. Does fouling damage the barrel ?
 
I've run plenty of thunderbolts through my gsg, never fouled the barrel, lots of dud rounds but great accuracy, cci cycle good but not very accurate, in mine anyway. winchester dyna point gt target are the best I've found so far, accurate and only 1 dud in 1500 rnds($24/500 at CT)
 
mudgunner49 said:
OK, I've got to ask - how do you "foul" a .22 barrel to the point you have to force a bore brush through???

If it seems that I'm perplexed it's because I am. I have .22's that I shoot a LOT, and some of them have never had a brush down the bore ever, and I'm talking 10's of thousands of rounds!!! I still have the first 10/22 I ever bought and that one rifle alone has at least 40K through it - nothing but a pull-through every once in a while...

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blake
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I've done it with a S&W K-22 and Remington Thunderbolt ammo. Bullets were keyholing after about 75 rounds.
 
So i brought it into the local gun shop here and it looks like i did some damage to the barrel.. Need to go test fire it to see if i lost alot of accuracy and if so ill be looking for a new barrel. Where would a guy buy one ? Badger, BlueLine ?
 
I've been shooting CCI Blazers through my Sig P226 classic for a while now, I scrub the barrel every 500-800 rounds or so, brass bristle brush with G96 foaming cleaner/lube, the barrel looks like the day I got it brand new and the gun stays accurate throughout the range session (usually 400 rounds or so, two magazines at a time)
I just got the (lightly used) GSG 1911, I'm planning to shoot Blazers through it as well.
I guess we'll see how this one fares.
 
Scott Max Danger said:
So i brought it into the local gun shop here and it looks like i did some damage to the barrel.. Need to go test fire it to see if i lost alot of accuracy and if so ill be looking for a new barrel. Where would a guy buy one ? Badger, BlueLine ?
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Was the damage done by all the shooting, or by your try at cleaning the gun? I would hate to see shooting lead bullets leading to barrel damage in a newly manufactured firearm!
 
Scott Max Danger said:
So i brought it into the local gun shop here and it looks like i did some damage to the barrel.. Need to go test fire it to see if i lost alot of accuracy and if so ill be looking for a new barrel. Where would a guy buy one ? Badger, BlueLine ?
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Of course the accuracy wil totally destroyed, and the barrel's scrap.
How else is he gonna make you buy a new one?
 
I think the damage was a combo effect of me and the lead build up. First of all ive never had a foul up like this before. I clean the gun every time i return from the range. So it fouled up after 500 or so rounds from its last cleaning. The gun started shooting wild and not very far.. Dropping almost a foot inside 50 yards. So i stopped shooting, took the gun home and soaked the barred in remington bore cleaner. Cleaned the slide, gun and then went back to the barrel. Put my brissle brush though and half way it started getting tight. Not knowing if it would get better or clean through i pushed harder. It came to a stop and i couldnt even get it out backwards (big no no). At that point i forced it through and all the lead came out along with what looks like a chunk of the rifeling. So id say it might be a combo of ####ty ammo, my inexperiance of how to clean it properly, or the barrel.
 
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Did you try to clean it with the brush and solvant again? Maybe what we see in the barrel is lead still stuck in there.
 
Its clearing up !! i hit it with a well soaked patch,, let it sit for 5 min then give it the brissle.. Im at about 10 or 11 reps of that and i can see the lance's full way down the barrel now :) must have just been the mother of all foul ups.. wooohooo
 
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