Ruger MK IV problems

L Ross

Well-Known Member
L Ross,
That's some good shoot'n ...210 yards :eek:
With Federal Auto Match, I wouldn't expect BIG failure, or Super Bad accuracy ...but I would expect to see one or two fliers, in a 10 shot string at a 50 yard target from the bench.
Thanks Jon. We started shooting .22 BPCR rules silhouette quite a few years ago and ever since 200 yards just doesn't seem too hard any more. The same friend, (also a Jon), that shot with me Friday, once shot a mini Creedmore with me in Iowa a few years ago. 1,000 feet with our single shots with tang sights and even that wasn't too bad once we had dialed in 14 minutes of windage. That was from seated with cross sticks. I used my turn to dope out the wind as we already had our 333 drop figures and Jon dialed in 14 minutes on his MVA sight and hit the 11" center with 10 of 10 shots and won the match. Best part is, he was shooting a Cody Ballard 45-70 with a Steve Crossno liner in .22. We were shooting Wolf Match Target for that event.
 

Petrol & Powder

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I wonder if he meant to write "feet" instead of "yards"?

210 yards is 630 feet, The bullet drop at that distance is in the 40"+ neighborhood and the time to target is so long that even a little wind will cause huge problems.
 

Rick

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Staff member
Quite common in silhouette to shoot 200 yards. Most ranges are in meters which if memory serves correctly is 218 yards. The normal handgun smallbore (22) range is to 100 meters but quite common to shoot 22 on the big bore handgun range.
 

L Ross

Well-Known Member
I wonder if he meant to write "feet" instead of "yards"?

210 yards is 630 feet, The bullet drop at that distance is in the 40"+ neighborhood and the time to target is so long that even a little wind will cause huge problems.
210 yards. It happened to be the amount of distance I had from my shootin' shack to the tree line across my former agricultural field, (now pollinator friendly prairie). I put up two 30 ft. long pieces of rail road track up side down in short wooden posts to set various steel knock down targets on. I also have a .22 BPCR range in a different former abandoned pasture with precisely measured rails set at 50, 100, 150, and 200 yards with 7 gauge steel backers instead of berms. The backer sheets are mounted on poles behind the rails and are painted white. During a match the folks who take ATV/UTVs down to set targets also repaint the targets and touch up the backers. When I first retired and was still full of pizz and vinegar my wife and I got all of this stuff done. Just maintaining it now is enough.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
That's getting out there with a rimfire. Good shooting!
Rick and his iron-chicken-blaster partners impressed me in no small way during the years they held handgun silhouette matches at my old "home" range site. Seeing a REVOLVER topple a ram at 200 meters with regularity is a thing of beauty. With iron sights. I am a fair-to-decent handgunner, but Rick and his bunch put me in the shade so deeply as to make my kind invisible. That group can make a handgun TALK.
 

Walks

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I just checked my Mark II Target from 1983. No lead build up that I can detect. For the 1st 10yrs I owned it, I shot 400-500 rds a week. I used Remington Target .22LR, Standard Velocity. Routinely cleaned twice a month, 800-1,000 rds.
Never had much of a failure to eject problem until I got to 800+ rds of lead bullet wax/lube build-up.
If I Shot Fed 710's I had no ejection problems regardless of 3-4 bricks in a row without cleaning.
But I really cleaned, using scrubbing pipe cleaners and brake cleaner made a big difference. So did the light application of Ballistol
 

Rick

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Staff member
Rick and his iron-chicken-blaster partners impressed me in no small way during the years they held handgun silhouette matches at my old "home" range site. Seeing a REVOLVER topple a ram at 200 meters with regularity is a thing of beauty. With iron sights. I am a fair-to-decent handgunner, but Rick and his bunch put me in the shade so deeply as to make my kind invisible. That group can make a handgun TALK.

Many a time I invited you come out and shoot with us. Even offered the use of guns, ammo & instruction/coaching. Just couldn't get ya to do it.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Duly noted. I NEVER had weekends off in those days. That was when I was working drug labs, a real growth industry in my county and adjacent areas. I had Tuesdays and Wednesdays off (when I actually GOT the days off), and made a truckload of money.......well, Uncle Sam & River City did all right, too. I saw enough of your cadres' practice sessions during the weekdays to see just how well a handgun could be directed.

After the drug work, I was sent to Robbery/Homicide, from which I retired in 2005. Not much free time during that assignment, either. I was able to use up some of the thousands of hours of "cuff time" in 4-hour increments on Tuesdays to attend Buckshot's "Burrito Shoot", but again I was on call and/or working most weekend days throughout that time. Retirement came just in time for the closure of Inland F&G Association's range site. Expletives deleted........
 

MW65

Wetside, Oregon
I'm going to check the S&W 41... It loves most STD velocity food, and have had more than my share of issues with the shorter barrel (5"?) Vs the long barrel. It let's ya know when he needs a bath!!!
 

Walks

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Am I the only shooter that has never had trouble with Rem Golden bullets.
It sure seems like it.

No wait I had a taurus 94 that didn't like it. But that gun didn't like anything. Why I don't own it anymore.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Remington Thunderheads, aka Thunderduds, have a notoriety for FTF. I have used many bricks of them and would get maybe one FTF in a brick. That is until, last week. Cindy was shooting the LCP II and had eight FTF in 150 rounds. I loaded them, at the end of the secession, and they failed on the second and third strike. Pulled the bullets and dumped the powder. This brick, I had dated 2005.

Very next day, I ran one hundred of those offending rounds and had seven FTF. Hopefully, I don't anymore of those bricks, dated 2005.

Remington Golden bullet's. :headscratch: Are those the bulk packed ones, that came in the 250 round milk carton type box? I quit purchasing them, years ago, because they were too waxy.
 

Rick H

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I know everyone has trouble with the Remington Thunderduds….but my Ruger 10-22T loves them. Cheap, shoot into 3/4" or better at 50 yds. and I haven't had a misfire problem to speak of. Use the 10-22 for practice and if I get a misfire or two a brick it doesn't matter. I small game hunt with the HP Cyclones too.
The Golden Bullets are the copper washed ones, come in buckets of 1400rds or so, and regular boxes. I don't shoot many of them, they cost more than the others.
 

Petrol & Powder

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If you ever read about how rimfire .22 ammunition is made, you might be amazed that the reliability is so high.
The manufacturing process is a giant exercise in economic efficiency or, "just how cheap can we make a boatload of cartridges".

I think we may have become a bit spoiled with cartridges that are made by the millions, cost less than 10 cents per round and have failure rates less than 0.3%.