The F word, fouling at its worst!!! this sucks

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So to start this off fouling sucks the big one, I had a bad issue with fouling in my 10/22 at the range yesterday shooting winchester wildcat ammo, shot about 300 rounds and made decent groupings at 100 yards, then the next 200 rounds of the box could not hit the blind side of a barn at 100 yards if my life depended on it. So I came home and cleaned the barrel and gun THOROUGHLY, today at the range it was even worse, got to about 200 shots of wildcat ammo (finishing off the rest of what I have) and the sound of the gun changed and once again not a single shot was connecting with the targets. Does anybody else have this bad of an issue with fouling in there 10/22's? or is it strictly the ammo I am using? is it less likely to happen with hollow point in comparison to full nose? oiling more or less? or do I have to add Winchester ammo to the already large list of ammo my 10/22 doesnt like (Remington ammo in every form is terrible).

What should I do to help prevent this!???

The culprit came out in one solid chunk, I have another pic to add later.

 
It's going to sound horrible on my part :redface:, but there are several "leaded round-nose" .22 LR types that I only use in my bolt actions, for fear of what they'd do to the semi-automatics....;)
 
The first cleaning, thin strips of lead kept coming out, I scrubbed it clean with the wire brush repeatedly followed by many patchs of hops 9 solvent until it came out clean. The second day at the range after 200 shots, I came home to clean it and this chunk of lead came out of my barrel.
 
it wouldn't be a bad idea to check the v- block as well- if those two hex bolts are loose, even just a little, then there goes your accuracy- failing that, the ruger barrels are no great shakes compared to some of the aftermarkets- there's a lot of 10/22s out there that have no stock parts save the receiver
 
The V block is really tight, I took the barrel off to clean the barrel on the second go and torqued her down nicely. I think I might go in one of two ways, a bull barrel and sand out the stock to fit it, or strictly use copper jacketed ammo, just sucks since shooting a 22 is just about large numbers for small prices.
 
Those are chunks of lead not fouling - something is seriously not right there....feeding crooked or burr in the chamber would be my guesses. I run all forms of CHEEEEEEEEEAP remington crap and winchester wildcat through my volquartsen barrel 10/22 - I clean it once a year - groups minute of gopher to 100 yards.
 
Could be the ammo, I had that happen before with one type of plain lead ammo, I do not recall the type but might of been the AE stuff.

Maybe that back just has the odd oversized bullet, I would try some other ammo and see if it does the same before you start worrying too much. But still would take the barrel off and give it a good look down to make sure nothing is in there.
 
Is this a used rifle or new? It could be that the rifle was fired a lot and once the accuracy was no good the original owner decided to "dump" it. I have never seen chunks of lead fall out of a barrel before but anything is possible.
 
if there is nothing wrong with the rifling my guess is you got a batch of bad ammo. try a different brand of ammo. if that solves your problem then you know the casue of your grief.
 
peter2772000 said:
What the.....?

That's nuts! I never thought that this could happen. Has anyone else ever seen this? :confused:
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I saw a Ruger MkII have the same issue once at my range. Shots were actually key-holing at 10 yards!! Guy took it home and cleaned it and brought a chunk of lead to the range to show everyone what he took out of the barrel. I was surprised it even shot with that in there.
 
Glock4ever said:
Is this a used rifle or new? It could be that the rifle was fired a lot and once the accuracy was no good the original owner decided to "dump" it
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Surprisingly this is the brand new 10/22 I have, the used one didnt have this issue. I stripped it down again today barrel off and all, re cleaned it even though it was already clean, there are no dings or scrapes in the rifling, vblock was tightened down well and re assembled.

So I am going to run a different type of ammo through the gun and if it still occurs I am going to bring it back to the store I bought it from.
 
Something is not right with that rifle - a new rifle shouldn't foul so badly that there are chunks of lead falling out of the barrel. I would just take it back.
 
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