10/22 extractor...vq?

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hey, so my new 10/22 has this wonderful love for stovepiping empty cases....i tried modding the extractor from a little how too, and it was good for about 1 mag, then back to jamming again. i tried a couple places for a vq extractor but no luck, does anyone know where i can buy one from? preferably one that is in canada or ships to canada lol.
 
Hmmm, stove-piping on a new 10/22 not good.

Does the ejector look ok?

Did you clean it well (i.e. strip it down?) a really "gummy" bolt might not move with enough force to properly send the cases flying.

Also if you are using something like Remington Thunderbolts that could cause the problem as well. I recommend the Federal 36gr HP bulk-packs.

The Ruger extractors as of late are really decent. I did see that you modified it so that could be a concern now.
Anyway, good luck getting it sorted.
 
I have built a few 10/22's, and found the VQ bolt to be junk, ANYTHING is better than a VQ bolt. Try this and you will see why, take a ruger bolt, a kidd bolt, or any other bolt, and beside a VQ bolt, place a round into the bolt (while bolt is removed from the rifle) and you will see that the VQ bolt is so sloppy that you can tip the round away from the extractor out of the bolt, my kidd bolts hold the round tight enough to wave it around the room and the round stays put.

VQ has some useable components, but their bolt will ALWAYS stovepipe because the headspacing is so huge the spent casing can move to the left away from the extractor. This will cause the casing to just bounce around instead of being ejected to the right out of the action. I have two of their bolts, and VQ tells me it is not a defect (possibly as it is a design flaw), so I am stuck with 2 paperweights. Therefore I will not purchase any of their products from now on, no matter their quality.
 
I got the power custom titanium extractor to replace the stock ruger extractor that was stove piping every few rounds. What a great upgrade.
 
ok so i got my exact edge vq extractor the other day. installed it last night, and went to the range today. well theres no change. and every case comes out in a different direction? its always shot the spent cases out in all different directions tho. im not sure what to try now?

*edit* i adjusted the mag springs on the promag mags and it helped alot with the stovepiping. i also tried a steel lips mag in the nomad and it worked perfectly. it seems the promag setup uses the rim of the next round to eject the current empty round. a weird setup indeed, but it works i guess.
 
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