10/22 picky with ammo?

I had a lot of issues with my current 10-22 and I think an often over looked issue is how tight the mag is held in the mag well.

I adjusted mine so that there is more force pushing the mag forward towards the chamber. This does two things, likely more, it give more consistent feeding as the mag doesn't rock front to back, and also gives better ejection again because the mag isn't rocking around as much.

Mags are also an issue. My BC Steel Lips needed some fitting as well.

The 10-22 is a fantastic gun and a tinkerers dream gun.
 
My new 10/22 has had three jams in about its first 500 rounds, using a BC steel lips and the Ruger factory mag. Its used Federal Champion, Rem Golden Bullet, Win Wildcat, 555, Expert HV, and Blazer.

Im totally happy with the purchase.
 
I have 4 10/22's in different configurations. They all eat every ammo I throw at them without hiccups. That being said, I don't buy remington ammo. I stick mostly to winchester and cci with some federal thrown in and they all work well. I find most reliability issues with 10/22's are magazine related.
 
My Ruger has about 20k on it..will feed anything with rotary mags..can be sketchy with aftermarket..with plastic lipped 30rnders it prefers a solid bullet to hollowpoints.
 
Cleaned my ruger thoroughly and shot around 150 rounds of Remington bucket bullets today with no issues. Butler creek steel lips and the rotary mag
 
G.Mitchell said:
I had a lot of issues with my current 10-22 and I think an often over looked issue is how tight the mag is held in the mag well.

I adjusted mine so that there is more force pushing the mag forward towards the chamber. This does two things, likely more, it give more consistent feeding as the mag doesn't rock front to back, and also gives better ejection again because the mag isn't rocking around as much.

Mags are also an issue. My BC Steel Lips needed some fitting as well.

The 10-22 is a fantastic gun and a tinkerers dream gun.
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You're right. The other day I did a test shoot and my older mag is not clicking into the mag well tight enough. The newer one clicks in fine and performs flawlessly. So it IS a mag issue. I will have a look soon.
 
FTE problems for me are due to a too strong charging spring for the ammo used. The cheap ammo doesn't have enough blowback to clear the bolt if you have a strong spring. It was happening even with a Power Custom extractor.

I got an aftermarket charging handle with three springs, working with no FTEs now.
 
Remington thunderbolts is the only ammo that gives me 100% reliability with my ruger regardless of what mag im running, that being said ive not shot anything cci. Wildcats, blazer, bucket o bullets, 222s/333s/555s, dynapoints, all just give me headaches.
 
My buddy has a 10/22 laminate stock. When he first got it, it jammed on every mag. Shot AE, Rem Bucket o Bullets, Winchester, CCI and Fiocchi. After about 2000rds, the gun smoothed out and now jams about 1/100 rds only. We are considering that a success at the moment! LOL!
One thing we found that helped reliability is to load only 9 rds in the rotary mag. Give that a try!
 
My 10/22 Takedown shoots best (by far) with CCI Standard Velocity and it cycles flawlessly with them. Maybe just lucky.
 
Wow...that's too bad so many folks have problems with the 10/22's...I assume it is newer ones. I've owned mine since about 1987, have 4 different mags for it and they all work great. I can count on one hand how many duds I've had out of many thousands of rounds and I would blame those on the ammo. I wonder what changed? I noticed my buddies newer 10/22 is pretty finicky. ..it only seems to like cci's.
 
I've been shooting hundreds of rounds of the garbage Remington bucket o bullets and as long as my gun is clean I'm getting no issues whatsoever.

Had 2 misfires in the last 500 rounds (im mostly using BC mags)
 
I wonder if it's more of a mag issue ,than a ammo issue? My 10 rounders cycle every thing 100%. My BC, T25' mags ,cycles only rem golden bullits at about 94%. Anything else including cci are even worst. I just picked up a new 30 rnd champion with steel lip mag ,today, I hope that works ok.
 
I have a couple 10/22's, one old one and a new one. Both of them work great on pretty much anything other than winchester bulk stuff. That said, I have a pretty new butler creek steel lips mag that won't feed the first 10 rounds if I stuff it full. The mag follower sticks in the mag and I have a hard time getting it unstuck sometimes. I have a couple older steel lips mags that work great, as well as the 10 round factory mags. Mine both cycle subsonics without issues if I haven't put off cleaning for too long.
Kristian
 
Nope the 10/22 is still awesome. I found what the problem was. The gun is fine the mags are fine, the mechanisms in the mag well were dirty and were not seating the mag into position properly. Just a detailed strip and cleaning needed. When I discovered this was the issue, I was able to seat the mag in manually and the gun began to cycle 3 different types of ammo that I thought were problematic flawlessly without one single malfunction out of nearly 500 rnds. Issue found, problem remedied.
 
i have been using 10-22 for over 20yrs in our you shooting program, we use what ever ammo is donated or the cheapest we can get replaced mag a couple times thousands of rounds through it eats everything we feed it we bought a second last year same result
 
When I first got BC steel lips mags I had problems with them. It's a while ago so I forget exactly what. Charging them up and leaving them full in the gun box for about 2-3 weeks seems to have settled them down and I had no problems after that. THOUSANDS of gophers, all with the federal bulk hollow point.
 
The Steel Lips mags need a bit of breakin until they're good to go. I started with 20, now all my mags will feed 22 and some will feed 23. Will wanna get'em up to 25 before I start shooting matches with it.
 
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