Thread: cleaning a 22lr my thoughts

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

There is a thing called Carbon Ring. It is a ring shaped carbon build up just around the throat of the barrel.

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All 22LR guns will suffer from this and it will affect accuracy. Different grades of ammo would build up this carbon ring at different pace. Match chamber will experience this a lot faster than sporting chamber. But plenty of CZs can get it quickly too. Once you have it, cleaning with a patch or snake will not do. you really need to use solvent or scrub it.

Some ammo also leaves a lot of wax residue. When I use CCI STANDARD VELOCITY on my Kidd 10/22, after 150~200 rounds or so there would be so much wax build up that the rounds will not be loaded properly into the chamber, resulting in FTF. This can be cleaned with a snake, but the wax is sticky and can makes the snake very hard to pull. I have snapped a snake doing this. Imagine my headache at the time having a bore snake stuck in the barrel.

But after I switched to SK Magazine, which is a much cleaner ammo, I do not get this problem for 1000 rounds or more.

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