10/22 loading problems

Jason Forrest

Jason Forrest

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Hi, I picked up a new standard stainless 10/22 last week, and have been less than impressed with the number of jams and loading problems I have been having so far in the first 200 rounds. Most of the problems may be caused my the cheap Remington "Game Load" ammo, which I am using in my cheap Butler Creek 25 shot clip.

The following picture was taken of a loading jam I had today with the Butler Creek clip. This problem seems to happen quite often on the first 3 or 4 shots on the 25 shot clip. The last 20 shots in the clip usually work better. The picture isn't great, but it shows how the new bullet misses the chamber on the high side, and becomes jammed.

Does this look like a common sight to anyone else running this clip, with cheap ammo in the 10/22? I want to ensure this is a clip or ammo problem, not a gun problem, before I start upgrading my stock 10/22. If it is a gun problem I will go back to my cheap 20 year old Lakefield...........

thanks,
Jason.

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Does this happen with the 10 shot factory magazine. mine did this with my two plastic butler creek mags. basically i'd put 25 rounds in(over night) and let the spring stretch out a bit. It cycles all 25 rounds now with only the odd jam and my 10/22 is over 15 years old with no mods. They are cheap clips but work fine eventually.
 
Cheap Remington Game Loads? That's an excellent round..

It would do that with the best match ammo you could buy,your mag is crap
 
I was given the Remington "game loads" I assumed they were cheap, sorry.

As far as the factory 10 shot mag, I haven't used it enough to make a decent judgement on it. I will give it a full test with the same ammo, and report back.

A buddy jammed his identical Butler Creek 25 shot mag (although a few years old) into my gun, loaded with stingers, and it worked perfectly. He says his old 10/22 works 99.9% of the time when running stingers.
 
American Eagle (plinking/target and gophering) and Stingers (especially for gophering!) work best in mine, but I stay away from Super-X and PowerPoints.

Also, my BC HotLips mags are probably getting goopy with residue and need a cleaning. Thirdly, most of my jams were occurring in colder temperatures.
 
Just get a VQ exact edge extractor from Rimfire Sports or Hawk Tech Arms and be done with it. While you're there, might as well also install a VQ auto bolt release and extended mag release. They're cheap enough to do and are upgrades that are actually useful.

My 10/22RR had the same problem until I changed the extractor. CCI Minimags do virtually eliminate the problem, but doing the above mods will most likely let you shoot any cheapo brand with no jams...at least that's what I experienced. :)
 
i bought a 10/22 in december and when i first got it almost every 5th round would either do that or would "stovepipe" (empty case sticking halfway out) i just kept cleaning it and putting more rounds through it after about 2000 rounds with various brands and weights my last 500 were a 40 grain winchester wild cat and it only happened 8 times that i had to manually clear. i did some looking and the 10/22 is apparently not broken in untell after 1200 rounds or so.
it also didnt matter if i used the factory 10 or my 25 banana steel lip mag.
 
especially if your gun is new, why not break it in with the factory magazines.
2/3 of the problems people have with 10/22s are due to crap aftermarket mags. youll find some people swear by the steel lips, some like hot lips, but youll always be able to find people #####ing about either.

ive never had a single problem with a factory ruger 10 rounder, other than one clear 10-rounder that i received from the factory with the spring overtensioned, which was a 1 minute fix.

youll never be able to find out if your feeding issues are with the gun or the aftermarket mags unless you try the gun with the factory mags first.
 
do exactly what allstone said and you will be delighted as i am.totally different rifle and that exact edge extractor is only ten bucks:)
 
I tried the factory clip and was having trouble getting the bullets to feed out of the mag at all. I took the tension out of the spring and tightened it 7 turns and it seemed to fix the factory mag. I guess the factory tension must have been off a little.

I didn't have time to play with the Butler Creek 25 shot mag.

My new hammer, extractor, and bolt buffer arrived today, any tips on installation?
 
Sounds like your magazine may be either sprung too tight or not sprung tight enough. When I take my factory magazine apart to clean it and put it back together if it is not tight enough it will do the exact same thing with the round hitting the chamber face. If you can try experimenting with tightness and see if that will help :)
 
The BC mags (both hotlips and steellips) tend to be tight at the start. I found that taking them in and out of the rifle repeatedly, and taking a full mag and running the bolt back and forth a bunch eliminated that problem within 24 hours. A lot of it is about making the magazine FIT the reciever.
 
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