I picked up a new LC9 about a month ago at the range. I fired some WWB through it that night, brought it home and cleaned it up real nice. Didn't notice anything unusual other than the rough barrel surface. Next time out, I fired a bunch of cast work-up loads which leaded the barrel horribly - the whole length. Took me quite a while and a lot of scrubbing to get it cleaned out. Over the next two trips I fired up to 40 cast firelap bullets with LBT compound. Barrel still looks very rough. Next time out it leaded up badly again. I tried some montana gold cartridges I had made up a few years ago for my XD9, just a few mags. I was shocked to see gold streaks along both the leading and trailing groove edges. This past weekend I made up 3 mags of XTP work-ups with Blue Dot, resulting in lots of copper streaking, again full length.
I figure it's time to call Ruger (on Friday my day off), but I figure I'd ask the experts here in the mean time for suggestions as to what's going on. The roughness I'm talking about follows the grooves and lands...looks like they used a disk harrow to machine it out. In complete contrast, my Smith's have a mirror like finish. Well, except the latest one at the forcing cone...that will be another post.