Butler Creek Feed problems

I had a steel lips mag that no how no way would function in my 10/22. I was moments away from pounding it into dust when I saw another guy also shootong a Ruger down the line. Gave it to him. It seemed to work better in his gun. Strangely, I have a hot lips mag that works just fine.

Auggie D.
 
Load the mags full and lock them up.. Leave them for about a week or so, empty the mags by hand and then repeat the process.. Should break the spring in real nice and avoid all issues! Happy shooting :)
 
I had to file the follower on mine , also put some weld were the nose of the bullet would sit and ground a little feed ramp into it , no problems since
 
kb007 said:
I have a few and dopped a little bit of graphite into each mag. I also leave them loaded most of the time. After a couple of range trips, they all work great now. Also, try different .22 ammo in the SR-22. I found it needs a somewhat hotter round to cycle reliably.
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I like the graphite idea.. nice
 
Check to see if your bolt is hanging up on the feed lips on the mag. That's the first thing i check when ever I get a BC steel lips mag for a gun. If it is take a file to it until the bolt runs smooth over an empty mag. I've never had a problem with any BC steel lip mag that I've done this with. Just put the empty mag in the gun and manually cycle the bolt slowly, see if it is hanging the bolt up or creating a lot of friction for it. The first BC mag I bought would actually stop the bolt completely when I did this, so I filed it down rounding the corners as well and I've never had a problem with it since.
 
Chem said:
Check to see if your bolt is hanging up on the feed lips on the mag. That's the first thing i check when ever I get a BC steel lips mag for a gun. If it is take a file to it until the bolt runs smooth over an empty mag. I've never had a problem with any BC steel lip mag that I've done this with. Just put the empty mag in the gun and manually cycle the bolt slowly, see if it is hanging the bolt up or creating a lot of friction for it. The first BC mag I bought would actually stop the bolt completely when I did this, so I filed it down rounding the corners as well and I've never had a problem with it since.
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With an empty mag in the gun, the bolt seems to cycle fine without issues. I will check again when I get home today
 
I've had a pile of BC steel lips mags over the years and after proper fitting and a little lube all have run flawlessly.
Very important that the stock isn't holding them off kilter. I had to do a little filing on a BC folder and a factory synthetic to get the mags to sit right.
Spray graphite is a good choice for lube.
 
Only problem I've had with mine was in the winter when testing a fresh build custom 10/22, wanted to just put a couple hundred cheap rounds through it to check function. I used I think it was blazer and the wax from the tips flaked off in the mag and caused missfeeds what a nightmare to get it out, reloaded with rem subs and mini mags and worked fine.

I find I just use the factory mags usually though as they sit flush and I prefer that when shooting, rarely ever use my BC mags.
 
And right after I post this I head out to the range to sight in one of my 10/22's that I changed scope rings on, and figure I'll grab my BC mags as and put some rounds through them, well low and behold one works perfect and the other was a POS and kept hanging up.

Got home and blew it all out cleaned and dried it and put graphite in both, it seams to work now just testing by hand so we will see next time out if it's a keeper or a target.
 
I picked up a SR-22 rifle last week and just got it to the range yesterday. Like an idiot, I forgot the small 10 round magazine that came with the rifle, so I picked up both a Butler Creek 25 and a HC3R 25 round magazine seeing as I planned on doing so anyways. The only ammo the range had at the time was Thunderbolt, so I grabbed a box and went at it. I had constant ejection issues that had me stopping every other shot to clear the jam. It was very frustrating. I figured it was the ammo.

Today I went and picked up 3 different types of .22LR and brought my 10 round mag back to the range along with the 2 other mags. Didn't matter what ammo I used on the 2 aftermarket mags, they had the same issue. However the factory 10 round mag shot everything without any issue. Out of the 300 rounds I fired today with that mag, I had one jam, and I'm pretty sure it was because my grip was loose for that shot. I talked to a guy working at the shop and he mentioned that he had the same issues with the butler creek mags and he took his and loaded them up with 25 rounds and kept them in the safe for a couple weeks. He didn't have any other issues with the mag.

Personally, I'm just glad I found out it was the mags and not my rifle being picky with the ammo. It shot great, tight patterns and was real fun to shoot.
 
Chem said:
Any luck getting your mag to work after?
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Hey guys. So I kept them loaded for a couple weeks and everyday I loaded and unloaded them 2-3 times to try and break them in. Today I fired them and WOW, what an improvement! I had a couple fail to fire (likely an ammo problem not a problem) but they fed nice and smoothly now. Thanks for the tip guys!!!!!
 
bruh said:
I picked up a SR-22 rifle last week and just got it to the range yesterday. Like an idiot, I forgot the small 10 round magazine that came with the rifle, so I picked up both a Butler Creek 25 and a HC3R 25 round magazine seeing as I planned on doing so anyways. The only ammo the range had at the time was Thunderbolt, so I grabbed a box and went at it. I had constant ejection issues that had me stopping every other shot to clear the jam. It was very frustrating. I figured it was the ammo.

Today I went and picked up 3 different types of .22LR and brought my 10 round mag back to the range along with the 2 other mags. Didn't matter what ammo I used on the 2 aftermarket mags, they had the same issue. However the factory 10 round mag shot everything without any issue. Out of the 300 rounds I fired today with that mag, I had one jam, and I'm pretty sure it was because my grip was loose for that shot. I talked to a guy working at the shop and he mentioned that he had the same issues with the butler creek mags and he took his and loaded them up with 25 rounds and kept them in the safe for a couple weeks. He didn't have any other issues with the mag.

Personally, I'm just glad I found out it was the mags and not my rifle being picky with the ammo. It shot great, tight patterns and was real fun to shoot.
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Try what I did. Load them full and keep them that way for a few days. Then every day, unload and reload them 2-3 times. Doing this for a couple weeks made the world of a difference for me.
 
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