I bought two BC mags for my 10/22 this spring. One black one, called Hot Lips and one clear one called Steel lips. The Hot lips has pink plastic lips, the steel lips has what appears to be cast stainless feed lips. The hot lips mag fed flawlessly from day 1. The steel lips mag required time to "break-in". It seems the follower lost tension when you pushed in the first few rounds and froze down, not placing tension on the rounds. This slowly corrected itself, and now the follower keeps tension on all rounds, 1-25. It works as well as the factory ten rounder now. I hope that info helps. I'm not sure about whether clear vs black means anything, it might, but its mostly whether its the steel lips or plastic "hot lips".
25 round mag for 10/22 won't feed.
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Plastic-lipped is not necessarily bad; the wear (and readiness to feed well), for that matter) just sets in a bit sooner......
I really would like Remington to produce steel-lipped hi-caps fo the 597, but until they do, I'm sticking with my 10/22...
Someone will post "the article" soon enough
, but the short answer is that if you don't over-load, you're ok! I also have good luck with t-bolts and cyclones fed from BC steel lips mags. Dirtiest ammo I've ever seen, but feeds ok.Federals (dont know the exact name, blue/gray box) jam or stovepipe at least once per 25 rounds.
None of my 5 mags have be modded yet, so maybe that's the problem with Federals, but I have bigger issues with my 10/22...like 3 inch groups at 25meters (that's with a scope).
The federals WERE "hollowpoint" so perhaps that was the issue with them feeding. I'm curious to see if they'd work in my mark3. I bought some mini mags for the mark3 but they're twice as much... I like the 20 dollar federal boxes for plinking outdoors.
take a real GOOD look at a 22 hollowpoint round- the "hollow point" looks like someone penetrated the thing with a NEEDLE- there is no difference in the way they feed afaik- the only thing is a 3 grain reduction in weight
Ibought 4 of the same mags 1 had the same issuse you had.. I just loaded and undloaded it a few times and it seems to work with 0 issuses after dumping a few rounds through it try putting in 20 rounds and shooting that for a while should fix some of the problems and if you still have issuse put pressure on the mag so it forces it up top of the gun.. that was another trick that after a while I didnt have to do anymore because it was fireing fine after that..
Well I can't even get one loaded in the gun without it jamming. But I'll give it a shot.
That's what I would have thought but\/ \/ \/
Exoce†;3432356 said:
I haven't taken it out again. I've loaded it a few times with different amounts to try and break it in and then got bored of that. But while doing that I noted that I can't take my nail and push out the top round from the rear of the cartridge until the last 3-2 or so. I was trying to ownload the mag quicker by just pushing them out but there is too much tension (i guess?) for them to slide out of the mag until the last couple. Is the problem that the spring is just reallly tight until it's broken in?
