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Just bought a 22/45 lite, replaced the trigger, removed the rail waiting for the maddmaccs mount and red dot, but I started shooting it and have realized that the barrel as shiny as it looks, holds lead like a bastard! I usually just run oily patches to clean rimfires, not this one, I’m shooting Remington Thunderbolts, because I have them, but this is the only firearm that I’ve shot that makes lead like this. I’ve emailed Ruger, just wondering if anyone else has seen similar? Had the pistol out about 4 times cleaned after each trip, it seems perfectly happy to tax each bullet that leaves it, to the point that accuracy diminished drastically. Anyone else seen anything similar? Thanks
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Nope...but I don't shoot Thunderbolts(in anything) and for a multitude of reasons. Congratulations?!?
Hint............
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No leading issues with mine.
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I’ve had nothing but problems in multiple pistols using Thunderbolts... switched ammo and the problems went away...
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Yes, it is the ammo. I like CCI over most.
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What makes you think it's leading excessively?
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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It ain't...it just boolit lube.
Hint..............(grin)
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Ammo would be the easy one, but I’ve shot a truckload of TB’s through countless other platforms? They aren’t the greatest, but I like I like the solid bullets on game, and again, I have them.
After the first outing I noticed a gob hanging out in the bore that CLP on a patch wouldn’t dislodge, a phosphor bronze brush with MPRO7 would break it up and get rid of it, and it continued that way. The fouling was so bad, I was able to actually push some lead away from the bore at the muzzle with my fingernail, and the brush ejects lead shards as it breaks up.
I’ll try some other ammo, but I can’t see the ammo being that bad?
Thanks for the help, doesn’t sound like there are any other pistols doing the same. Guess the Woodsman will have to eat all the TB’s😁
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Nope...but I don't shoot Thunderbolts(in anything) and for a multitude of reasons. Congratulations?!?
Hint............ Thunderbolts are the biggest piece of crap ammo created
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Yep, it’s lead, enough that I was able to verify with my fingernail with the product hanging out the muzzle.
I can agree on TB’s not being the best, but I’m past 5,000 of them in everything I put them in, Winchester, Colt, Remington, Savage, S&W, Ruger, Anschutz, and a few others, all followed with a CLP patch to clean with no issues like this little Ruger is showing me.
I will try another brand next, but I am also going to see what the Kroil loosened up tonight from yesterday’s shooting, I’ll see if I can push a piece out in tact, it might be interesting?
Thanks again for the thoughts, hope this is the only one
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If you fool around on rimfirecentral very much, you will find your complaint of leading with Thunderbolts is VERY common, almost everyone has a complaint or twelve with the stuff. It's just crap.
Instead of shooting the cheapest crap you can find, try something a bit better. There are alternatives that do NOT lead like Thunderturds, in the same price range. Federal bulk box ammo usually shoots like crap in my rifles, but it's better than anything Remington produces now.
In the immortal words of Doc Campbell, on HeeHaw, "If it hurts when you do that, don't do that."
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Sound advice, thank you, I’m going to go look.
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Somethings not right with this story. Rimfire bores "season" after a few shots and you don't need to clean them. In fact, they shoot worse after being cleaned. And if you're getting strips of lead out of the bore, then the bullets would be tumbling (sound like bees). My 22s shoot Thunderbolts as well as any other uber-cheap 22lr and I clean the bore in my 22lr pistol about once in a never.
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I came down from cleaning like a centerfire, to the oil patch and done. I didn’t hear the tumbling, but accuracy did go to crap, and holes were getting out of round. I haven’t had issues with the TB’s either, and I’ll keep shooting them, just seemed weird that all of a sudden this pistol decides to hate them?
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[img]http://https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/galleries/13745207/ruger-mark-4-22-45-lite-barrel-leading#comments[/img]
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Well, maybe I’ll figure the picture posting out, but there is a pic of the lead in the image gallery
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Got the email today, Ruger wants to look at their pistol.
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ak,
I can't view your pic but if bullets are keyholing perhaps you got a bad tube.
Will be interesting to see what Ruger says.
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