10/22 woes continue

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Took it out to the range again with the sole purpose of pouring rounds through it to "wear it in" :rolleyes: After 100 rounds I quit. It CANNOT be that it needs wearing in. On all my F2Fs I looked at all the firing pin/primer strikes on the cases, and 75% of the fail to fires had very minimal contact between the firing pin and the primer. Saying that, I mean that it looks like the firing pin floated up in the channel so that it almost missed the primer completely.
I remember reading somewhere here that guys *pin* their firing pins. What exactly is that?

I figure I'm sending the rifle back to ruger in Montral with a detailed letter of the issues I'm having.
 
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I warned you about them 10/22's :p
 
though I will say that I ended up replacing the bolt with a 'match' bolt and pin, and it seemed to correct the problem.
Pinning the firing pin means drilling a hole above the firing pin in the channel, and running a dowel through it, to reduce the amount of vertical play the pin has.
 
I've never had that problem in 1000s of rounds through mine with the stock bolt. I drylube the pin and try to clean out the crud every 500 or so shots though.
 
Yea mine is fussy too, only cycles the good ammo. Probably put 10,000 round through it and probably onle a dozen misfires....just won't cycle.
 
Hi Rick,

I drilled a bolt and installed a pin for a friend. He said it worked well. It is not quite as straight forward as it would seem. You have to be very careful in locating the hole...within a few thou of where you want it pinned, and the case hardening on the bolt is tough stuff. You can get through it with solid carbide drill bits, but make sure you have everything clamped down tight. The slightest wiggle with those little bits snaps em off which is pricey, and the broken bits would be a pain to remove from the hole if any got left behind.

Cheers,
Scott
 
It might be easier to look for a used bolt. Maybe there is one kicking around here somewhere.
 
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But what if he wants hi-cap mags? Not so easy with that Remmy 597...

:);):)[/QUOTE Eagle now makes hi cap mags for the 597 30 rounds. I have both a 597 and a 10-22 the 597 yellow jacket has thus far worked very well my newest 10-22 was a dud right out of the box would not feed the cheaper shells so radiused the bolt put in a titainium extractor and cut aloop off the hammer spring and now its working much better .I was very disapointed when I first tried it I had 2 standard ones that worked great the stainless target diddn't .but I got to agree they should work great from factory.
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Eagle now makes hi cap mags for the 597 30 rounds...
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I cannot speak from personal experience, but prior to making a purchase of a 597, I specifically asked the fellows at Rimfiresports (not Rimfirecentral) about the Eagle magazines. They politely informed me that they no longer carried the Eagle magazines for the 597, indicated that the reason was that the mags were...less than desirable, and advised me to go with the 10/22.

Might I politely ask what your experience with them (the Eagle mags), if any, has been?

cyclone
 
I just ordered 2 they are not here yet so no experience yet I hope they work I'll let you know when I get them .
 
Shouldn't the striking end of the firing pin be sharply defined? :confused: The corners look rounded. And its not from my polishing.
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the firing pin is a stamed steel piece, the rounded corners are normal for a ruger .22(10/22, Mk1,,22/45)

the impact from the pin does not have to be square what matters is that the pin strikes the rim with enough force to cause the chemical cascade reaction to occur.

you should post a pick of a FTF case that would give more info for diagnosis ( are you still using the Cyclones??? buy a box of CCI standards, or federal champion or anything else and see how they work)


tg
 
Yeah...I should have taken pics of those cases. I used 50 CCI stingers and still had about 2 to 3 per mag. Yup, I use the cyclones.
Tonight I stripped the bolt, receiver, and firing pin. Completely wiped away any oil present. I tried something else too... I loosened the clamp holding the barrel into the reciever and re-indexed the barrel. I made absolutely sure the extractor was not binding on either side of the notch in the barrel.
Just measured it as well. 3.3855 inches long. I wonder if the stampings are consistant?
 
Theres a store here in Edmonton that sells used gun parts.
"Western Gun Parts" Maybe I'll buy an extra and weld on a blob and shape it so its a few thou longer than the one I have now.
 
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