Fascinating how some companies lube is put on without much thoughts.

We are shooting a variety of 22 rifles and pistols.

Using over 80 types of ammo.

Some of the ammo is impossible to use in semi auto rifles and pistols.

All because of the lube.

Some Winchester with copper coated bullets' seem to hard to chamber, even in bolt action rifles.

Some Remington ammo has very hard, caked on lube, the same thing happens.

Some Eley - like the HV Rabbit, has so much hard lube so much falls off as you open the box.

The ammo has to be rubbed off this or it causes some semi auto rifles and pistols to malfunction!

Funny thing is practically all new European ammo has very light lube.

I had 22LR ammo that refused to chamber in my rifles because unknown to me the lube had hardened.
Now I have ammo that I do not know what to do with it.
What can be done to save this ammo and make it shootable or is it not possible?
BB

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Originally posted by bigbull:
I had 22LR ammo that refused to chamber in my rifles because unknown to me the lube had hardened.
Now I have ammo that I do not know what to do with it.
What can be done to save this ammo and make it shootable or is it not possible?
BB

You can spray a rag with WD40 and use that to rub the lube off.

Hoppes #9 works too.

ARA matches prohibit messing with the factory lube.

I was sent some lube with claims it improves accuracy.

Tried it with different ammo and different rifles.

Was not true.

All the best ammo uses very light lube.