HELP! Carbon Flakes? Over-Cleaning?

[dnlgao]

OKay, so ive put about 500 rounds through my taurus 24 7 pro 9mm. Everything has been absolutley fine, ive shot WWB, federal, and the remington umc, and not a SINGLE FTF or FTE. However, last time i went to the range, i shot the federal rounds for the first time and experienced a problem.

I again had no FTE or FTF's, however, there was a black powdery/flakey area on the paper targets right next to me. They looked like little gold flakes laying around except black. a even more accurate description would be like pencil lead shavings. Im pretty sure they are carbon flakes. The flakes came out during the ejection process from the side of the firearm. So i stripped the apart the gun to see if the plastic on the recoil spring or ANYTHING looked wrong. However, NOTHING. the gun looked just like normal.

I took the gun home and gave it its conventional cleaning. I clean it after every single time i shoot it. Except this time i cleaned the magazines as well, i hadnt previously done that.

Can ANYONE tell me what the possible cause of this could be? im clueless, everything looks normal.

HELP!

thanks,

Dan.

 

[hoghunting]

That sounds like unburned powder. It won't hurt your pistol.

 

[Walkalong]

Sounds like crappy ammo.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Sounds like you need to do a lot of reading about firearms and what they burn. You might read a reloading manual too...

 

[BCRider]

Help out with sweeping up the brass at an indoor range at the end of the night and you'll find enough unburned powder all over the first 15 feet of the firing line to reload for a whole evening and then some. Revolvers also spit some of this out the side and semis don't quite squirt it all downrange before the casing comes out the end of the chamber so some comes out the ejection port and some "dusts" up the inside of the gun along with the black powder like "ash" left over from what does burn.

Winclean ammo is an odd powder. It shoots out a lot of unburned powder but what does burn seems to burn exceptionally clean. Winclean ammo casings could easily be reloaded without the need for any sort of cleaning. I just wish I could buy powder that burned that clean.

All of which is to say that your gun if fine.

 

[Just One Shot]

Just how close are you shooting?