Ruger MkIII 22/45 with BAD Remington Thunderbolt .22LR ammo

I shoot a Ruger MkIII 22/45 .22LR pistol with a Ruger scope mount and a BSA reflex sight. While this gun is normally accurate, accuracy depends on good ammo! I purchased two bricks of Remington Thunderbolt and after just 300 rounds I left the gun club in disgust, having lost all accuracy due to wax fouling. By then end of the 300 rounds the gun was keyholing like crazy and shooting a consistent 2 feet right from just 10 yards away!

Moral of the story: buy Federal copper-washed bulk ammo in 550 round bricks, it's 10.50 at Wal-Mart and it never suffers this kind of debilitating fouling even after 1100 rounds downrange in an afternoon.

(Be kind, this is my first real attempt at video editing and I ad-libbed the narration!)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• ruger
• .22
• .22LR
• MkIII
• pistol
• ammo
• gun
• handgun
• shooting
• remington
• thunderbolt
• scope
• target

[MRzilla66]

first off ....you should check your gun after a few rounds ...that is...if you care for your gun ....also too if you fired all 300 rounds and never checked your gun .....your an idiot ......be a responsible gun owner is also to know what your shooting and to keep your gun in top shape....and i have a ruger 22/45 pistol and i do shoot those rounds and i have no trouble with that ammo ....now federal bulk ammo....that is a different story.

[paintballplayer700]

@MRzilla66 I guess you think 300 rounds is a lot, but to some of us, it's nothing. I routinely shoot 1,000+ rounds of other ammo through that gun in a day, and it never hiccups with anything else. All my firearms are kept "in top shape."

[Dp908]

There is nothing wrong with that gun.Remove the bolt and mainspring so you can get to the breech with a brush, soak it in a little hoppes 9 and get after it. I don't know why people go to the pac-lite uppers, there is nothing wrong with the stock ruger upper.

[paintballplayer700]

@Dp908 I went to the PacLite so I could attach my .22 suppressor.

[ils360]

did you clean it and it was fine??

[paintballplayer700]

@ils360 I used it as an excuse to buy the Paclite upper I needed anyway (for suppressor use).

[paintballplayer700]

@oldmoney74 I have shot thousands of rounds of other cheap ammo without this problem. Federal bulk is as cheap as it comes, I routinely shoot 1000 rounds of that in a sitting and my gun never, ever looks like this.

[1979aerocaprice]

@Shockem841 feel better? good job. you look awesome right now. callin people dumbfuck in youtube comments. real mature.

[Shockem841]

@1979aerocaprice no dumbfuck......its lead 100% lead!!!cci mini mags use a wax coat on ammo thats it.

[1979aerocaprice]

@bigdave35180 you can not ruin a barrel by cleaning it. that is the most ignorant thing ive ever heard in my life.

[1979aerocaprice]

@showdonttellyyz dude clean your fuckin gun. how retarded do you have to be that you think lead will ruin a steel barrel? i use thunderbolts all the time and i get the same fouling. it cleans up in a matter of minutes with some hoppes

[1979aerocaprice]

@Shockem841 uh no its not, its wax. and either way, wax and lead are both softer than steel. Do you people not clean your guns or what? jesus, i mean ill take your "ruined" rifle or pistol off your hands for ya. just PM me and we'll figure it out.

[1979aerocaprice]

this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. there is absolutely nothing wrong with that gun. just freaking clean it bro. its wax. there is no way in hell that some wax build up "rendered the chamber non-cylindrical". i mean seriously bro, you think wax could do that to steel?

[TheHockeykid989]

Today I shot 500+ rounds of this ammo with no misfires no fail to fires and no problems with accuracy from my Henry golden boys .22. I even shot 2 shots in the same hole. Your gun is messed up!

[nk47b]

That would piss me off

[WheresMyXR8]

i totally agree!! i used to shoot hundreds of rounds through my old .22 rifle.. i remember buying the cheap thunderbolt ammo before our trip up north. which was around the time i started having problems with the gun. i also had misfires, the gun wasnt ejecting casings properly, there was alot of grey residue in the ejector area, we tried cleaning it but it was horrible.. i didnt know much at the time i was just a kid, and a havent been shooting long.. so we just gave the gun to my uncle..

[greenspiraldragon]

don't use cheap ammo get the CCI brand ammo.