Anyone who shoots a Ruger 10/22 is aware of how dirty the action gets.
Couple this with the use of a sound suppressor on an SBR and you end up with a weapon who's action quickly becomes sticky after just a couple hundred rounds.
In my case, I could shoot no more than six 30 round magazines before the rifle became completely unreliable.
As a comparison, my 10/22 marksmanship trainer will run for about 1,200 rounds before any problems start to creep up.
The problem isn't so much keeping everything lubricated as it is keeping all the wax & carbon off the top of the receiver.
Anyhow, these fouling issues have been haunting me with that rifle for the last few months and started me on a search for a solution.
First thing that I tried was to polish all of the internals and then run only graphite powder for lubrication.
This did help, but did not even come close to an adequate solution.
I also tried the Miltec-1 heat treat and then wipe dry method.
Similar results to the graphite.
So, I was placing an order to Midway USA last week and thought that I would look at their "Dry Lube" section just to see what offerings they had.
I decided to pick up two products to try.
The "Hornady One Shot Gun Cleaner-Degreaser and Dry Lubricant"
and the "Sentry Solutions BP-2000 Dry Lubricant"
Well, I had a friend that was transferring to a new unit and he stopped by this weekend for a quick goodbye and wanted to shoot my "Krinker".
(The "Krinker" being the suppressed SBR in question.)
The gun being an SBR Krinker Plinker kit takes quite a bit longer to break down to do a propper cleaning than a standard Ruger 10/22.
Since we were short on time to begin with and the rifle was already so dirty that it was at the failure point,
I decided that I would try to hit the action with a quick spray of the "Hornady One Shot Degreaser / Dry Lube".
So I locked the bolt to the rear, sprayed the receiver, breach, bolt face, the bottom of the bolt, and then wiped everything dry.
We then went outside and proceeded to empty twelve 30 round magazines without incident.
Later on in the weekend, I checked back in on the rifle to do a proper cleaning.
I found that the action was as smooth and as free as it was when I last cleaned it.
This was truly impressive to me since I've had so much difficulty with this in the past.
I'm now a big fan of this Hornady stuff.
The powder stuff that I bought I haven't tried in the action since the Hornady product worked so well.
I have used it to replace the graphite that I normally use in my high capacity plastic 10/22 magazines and 5.56mm BETA mag.
At this time, it does appear that it is superior to the graphite in this application.
I hope this information is of use to anyone that has had similar issues.
Couple this with the use of a sound suppressor on an SBR and you end up with a weapon who's action quickly becomes sticky after just a couple hundred rounds.
In my case, I could shoot no more than six 30 round magazines before the rifle became completely unreliable.
As a comparison, my 10/22 marksmanship trainer will run for about 1,200 rounds before any problems start to creep up.
The problem isn't so much keeping everything lubricated as it is keeping all the wax & carbon off the top of the receiver.
Anyhow, these fouling issues have been haunting me with that rifle for the last few months and started me on a search for a solution.
First thing that I tried was to polish all of the internals and then run only graphite powder for lubrication.
This did help, but did not even come close to an adequate solution.
I also tried the Miltec-1 heat treat and then wipe dry method.
Similar results to the graphite.
So, I was placing an order to Midway USA last week and thought that I would look at their "Dry Lube" section just to see what offerings they had.
I decided to pick up two products to try.
The "Hornady One Shot Gun Cleaner-Degreaser and Dry Lubricant"
and the "Sentry Solutions BP-2000 Dry Lubricant"
Well, I had a friend that was transferring to a new unit and he stopped by this weekend for a quick goodbye and wanted to shoot my "Krinker".
(The "Krinker" being the suppressed SBR in question.)
The gun being an SBR Krinker Plinker kit takes quite a bit longer to break down to do a propper cleaning than a standard Ruger 10/22.
Since we were short on time to begin with and the rifle was already so dirty that it was at the failure point,
I decided that I would try to hit the action with a quick spray of the "Hornady One Shot Degreaser / Dry Lube".
So I locked the bolt to the rear, sprayed the receiver, breach, bolt face, the bottom of the bolt, and then wiped everything dry.
We then went outside and proceeded to empty twelve 30 round magazines without incident.
Later on in the weekend, I checked back in on the rifle to do a proper cleaning.
I found that the action was as smooth and as free as it was when I last cleaned it.
This was truly impressive to me since I've had so much difficulty with this in the past.
I'm now a big fan of this Hornady stuff.
The powder stuff that I bought I haven't tried in the action since the Hornady product worked so well.
I have used it to replace the graphite that I normally use in my high capacity plastic 10/22 magazines and 5.56mm BETA mag.
At this time, it does appear that it is superior to the graphite in this application.
I hope this information is of use to anyone that has had similar issues.
