Battledyne arrive, quick review.

I think I'll have to take your offer to exchange them as well hical.

I went out to the range today to test the mags. I did a full clean & lube with FrogLube on my 10/22. Lubed the mags as well. On one of the mags I sanded the follower down to help with the angle. Still had lots of jams and misfeeds. I tried everything I could think of on my end to fix it, even clipping a few coils off the spring. Probably just got some of the troublesome ones with bad lips.

Here are my results:

CCI Minimags 25 rounds:
Modded mag: Failed to feed the first round all the way, also bent round 24. Failed to feed rounds 21, 19, 16, 15, 11 (also bent round 10).
Normal mag: Failed to feed the first round, while scratching the side of 24 badly. Jammed at round 13, and then a hard jam at 12. Had to take the bottom off the mag to fix it.

Ran them with thunderbolts at 25 rounds, had 1 jam each mag. Thunderbolts aren't accurate in my 10/22 though.

Tried Federal Champion, and CCI AR Tactical, full mags. Had to many problems with both modded and normal mags so I just stopped.

I'll email to sort things out hical, thanks!

hical.ca said:
Thats your call! We will do either.....
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Dweano said:
Next Batch ETA? I'll still risk it to be Tacticool!
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We need more people with reports of having 100% working mags. Seems like the only people that are posting are ones with issues.

The more people that try them and are willing to report their findings, good or bad, the better.
 
bowzy said:
We need more people with reports of having 100% working mags. Seems like the only people that are posting are ones with issues.

The more people that try them and are willing to report their findings, good or bad, the better.
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Ya, fair enough, but the only mags that are 100% are factory Ruger 10 rounders.
Of 4 Butler Creeks I've owned, one was total garbage, one is 90%, and the other two can't take more than 20 rounds or else I get failures to feed for the first 5 rounds.
Of 3 aluminum TI25s, one was complete junk and was returned, one used to work with no more than 18 but now it is useless junk, one works 100% with 25 rounds loaded.
Aftermarket hi-cap mags for the 10/22 are a gamble, full stop.

But ya, I'd like to hear from those with working mags too...
 
bowzy said:
Seems like this guy had pretty good results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KnYh1QCNA
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Ya, until trying to feed them into the SR-22. He potentially attributes the SR-22 difficulties to the weather... I'm not so sure.

I did notice that all 3 rifles he tried seemed to have (please correct me if I'm wrong) a standard chambering vs. the target chambering in my rifle. I wonder if that is part of my problem...
 
bcbravo2zero said:
Here's a good fix for FTFeed. I tried it on 2 BC mags that wouldn't feed reliably with more than 20 rounds. Did a little light filing in the red area in the pic and they feed beautifully now even with 25 rounds loaded. It seems the casings can hang up in this area:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f200/goose_25/25583SteelLips-med.jpg
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Nice, if I have any issues with my replacements I'll try that. I already sent back my faulty two mags.

Hopefully the new ones "just work".
 
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