Man I feel like a FOOL. Took the new Ruger 22/45 lite to the range yesterday, zeroed it in, extremely accurate. Then the screws came loose on the picatinny rail and I was done, out of ammo too. Brought it home, cleaned it, blue lock tight on the picatinny rail mounting screws, grabbed a box of ammo and headed to the range again today to re-zero it and check everything. Started out and was surprised to find I had to make very little adjustment to the red dot sight to get it re-zeroed in. Shot about 100 rounds and it started losing zero. I checked the rail and sight everything was still tight, no issues there. So I re-adjusted the sight again and started shooting. There it went off again! I tried one more time and noticed the rounds were tumbling and ripping the paper instead of leaving clean holes like the previous day. At this point I was frustrated and decided to pack it in for the day.
Went back in to pay for the range time and asked the guy about it, he checked the gun over and sure enough there was a CHUNK of lead stuck inside the bore and it was so leaded and fouled up I couldn't believe it! He asked what I was using and I pulled out a box of the Rem thunderbolts (bought them about 2 years ago) and he said there's your problem right there, totally junk ammo!
Needless to say I will never fire another round of .22 that is not copper covered... Talk about a nightmare getting the bore cleaned and all the lead that came out. Did a search on internet and there are tons of posts about Blazer lead and Rem Thunderbolts.
Will stick with the Federal and Win X jacked rounds from now on! Lesson learned the hard way! Back to the range tomorrow to re-sight it in and make sure all is well. I'm going to take a break after this week.
Went back in to pay for the range time and asked the guy about it, he checked the gun over and sure enough there was a CHUNK of lead stuck inside the bore and it was so leaded and fouled up I couldn't believe it! He asked what I was using and I pulled out a box of the Rem thunderbolts (bought them about 2 years ago) and he said there's your problem right there, totally junk ammo!
Needless to say I will never fire another round of .22 that is not copper covered... Talk about a nightmare getting the bore cleaned and all the lead that came out. Did a search on internet and there are tons of posts about Blazer lead and Rem Thunderbolts.
Will stick with the Federal and Win X jacked rounds from now on! Lesson learned the hard way! Back to the range tomorrow to re-sight it in and make sure all is well. I'm going to take a break after this week.
