Hi,
In the past month or so I have put about 1500 rounds through my ruger mark iv and after few small issues it has been working flawlessly with the exception of the screw on the takedown bar coming a bit loose on it's own, which isn't a huge deal. While cleaning it after putting a ton of copper plated ammo including CCI mini mags and even 50 rounds of CCI copper 22 I believe the barrel is starting to get mucked up with copper. While cleaning it most recently the barrel seemed reluctant to get clean. Every time I put a wet patch through it, the barrel visably became more dirty and dripped out this weird greenish/blue fluid. After about 60 or so patches I became fed up and ran several dry patches through it and called it a night.!Is copper fouling this quickly normal and how urgent is it to remove it? As well how do I remove it most effectively? (I assume it is copper fouling) Is it best to use non plated ammo in a 22 to avoid this fouling?
Thanks so much.
In the past month or so I have put about 1500 rounds through my ruger mark iv and after few small issues it has been working flawlessly with the exception of the screw on the takedown bar coming a bit loose on it's own, which isn't a huge deal. While cleaning it after putting a ton of copper plated ammo including CCI mini mags and even 50 rounds of CCI copper 22 I believe the barrel is starting to get mucked up with copper. While cleaning it most recently the barrel seemed reluctant to get clean. Every time I put a wet patch through it, the barrel visably became more dirty and dripped out this weird greenish/blue fluid. After about 60 or so patches I became fed up and ran several dry patches through it and called it a night.!Is copper fouling this quickly normal and how urgent is it to remove it? As well how do I remove it most effectively? (I assume it is copper fouling) Is it best to use non plated ammo in a 22 to avoid this fouling?
Thanks so much.