Bore conditioning

[JSH]

Opinions are like elbows, everyone has a couple.
I would look hard at the bore. When ever where ever any lead stripping starts, it moves rearward towards the chamber.
With basically a notch in the bullet, you now have basically a hole in it. Can cause issues other than lube. If your a believer in Calfee, it might possible be a large spot in the barrel allowing gases to pass by rather than push, that will only escalate. Bill’s rigs have won enough “wood” it’s hard to argue with his findings. Much like saying Harry Pope didn’t know what he was doing.

I have in years past read where some did a spray job with moly on 22RF, when moly was the fad.
Seems I recall reading some dipped 22RF in Lee mule snot lube that had been thinned with Alcohol.
Sounds like a lot of work for little return to me.
I would sell it all and buy quality over quantity. Blasting ammo is just that.

 

[flatlander]

The only 22RF bbl that I've had leading issues with was the factory bbl on a Browning-marked 52C reproduction sporter that I bought used online (not hard to figure out why it was for sale, after the fact). There wasn't a mark or scratch of any kind on the stock or the bluing on the metal - who ever the original owner was, he or she was very careful with it. But the bore was so full of lead fouling that I could feel it when running my 20 cal cleaning rod with thread adapter & 22RF jag w/o a patch on it through the bore. It took a couple of hours working with a fresh 22 bronze brush & lead solvent to get it all out of that barrel, and when I inspected it with my Hawkeye borescope, it was fairly obvious why it was leading so badly. The leade was rough, with a steep angle, as opposed to the 1.5*-2* leade angles that my match reamers cut. There were also several rings in the bore that looked like they'd been cut into the steel somehow. Never seen anything else quite like it before, and hope to never buy another rifle with anything close to as poor a bore as this one had. Anyway, after I'd gotten the leading out, I took it out to zero the scope I'd mounted, and put 65rds of a good lot of fresh SK Std+ through it, without getting one single 5-shot group that was anywhere close to what most of us would consider to be respectable. And when I brought it back in to clean it, I found the bore to be leaded very nearly as badly as it was when I first got the rifle.

That did it for me - I bought a very high quality custom barrel that had been contoured to match the OEM bbl, only left .050" larger in diameter. I cut the tenon and threads, chambered it with an EPS reamer, then cut the extractor slots on the mill, and after sanding the stock's bbl channel out far enough to put the bbl'd action into the stock, took it out to do some shooting with it. Groups were far better than before, though they aren't quite as good as I'd hoped for - yet. I need to finish sanding the bbl channel to the point where the bbl is fully floated. I was out of time to do any further gun work with spring spraying & planting needing to be done, and the farm work has been kicking my butt ever since. Some one of these days, I'll get caught up on field work (or winter will come, and I'll have a month or two before farm work starts all over again), and I'll put the finishing touches on this rifle...I hope!

Back to the OP's question - as others have recommended, I'd get rid of that Federal ammo, and start over with something quite a bit better...

 

[pascalp66]

Cleaning followed by conditioning, always. I mostly shoot SK Rifle Match, rarely Lapua CenterX.
Whatever kind of cleaning, from light (2-3 pass of boresnake) to full (rimfire blend + carbon remover ). After, I put a light coating of Wonder Lube or Bore Butter (same as for my black powder rifle), I retrieved my POI/POA in few shots (could be 1 or 2 for light cleaning)

 

[DShortt]

Cleaning followed by conditioning, always. I mostly shoot SK Rifle Match, rarely Lapua CenterX.
Whatever kind of cleaning, from light (2-3 pass of boresnake) to full (rimfire blend + carbon remover ). After, I put a light coating of Wonder Lube or Bore Butter (same as for my black powder rifle), I retrieved my POI/POA in few shots (could be 1 or 2 for light cleaning)

This is what I was curious about. Seemed like it would work but I never have thought about trying it myself.

And as others have suggested I'll definitely be trying some different ammo.

Thanks for all the input and suggestions.

 

[Idaho-Lefty]

I'm really hoping it's not an ammo problem. I bought a bunch of it shortly after .22LR finally wasn't nearly unobtainable.

I've been shooting up ( wanting to get RID of it ) a LOT of Fed Auto Match ammo as,.. it's, a MESS !
Won't ever buy any, FED Lead Bullet, NON- Plated ammo, again.
Can't even give this crud away, to my grandson, as his Dad ( my son ) is too smart to take it,.. LOL !
The Bullets are made from, VERY Soft Lead and it literally drips out of, the Bore at around, 250 shots !
SAD to see Federal,.. making this, Dirty, Gummy, SOFT,.. Krap !

 

[ROBARRC50]

This is interesting to me i will soon be shooting alot of cheap ammo to burn it up. Currently shooting cci blazer that shoots awesome and the lube is dried up on it. I will be shooting thunderbolts, fed target, fed auto match and golden bullets very soon it will be interesting to see how they shoot and if they lead up the bore in my cz 457. Only barrel i havehad that lead fouled badly was a smith custom shop 45acp revolver out of time and very rough spot in rifling lead scrapes off and just gets pushed all the way down bore.

 

[pmpski_1]

This is interesting to me i will soon be shooting alot of cheap ammo to burn it up. ... I will be shooting thunderbolts, fed target, fed auto match and golden bullets very soon

Why torture yourself like this? Just give it away and get some karma.

I don't know what kind of karma you'd get from giving someone crappy ammo, so be careful.

 

[DShortt]

I'd never sell it to anyone without full disclosure.