Polishing My 10/22

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Hello!

So I just got my first 10/22 and I'm thinking about polishing the internals, my question is, does it actually make a difference? Or does it just make us feel better?
 
munki63 said:
Hello!

So I just got my first 10/22 and I'm thinking about polishing the internals, my question is, does it actually make a difference? Or does it just make us feel better?
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Just run a brick of cheap ammo through it without cleaning... voila! Polished.
 
I doubt polishing the bolt carrier will make much of a difference, carbon may wipe off easier, but I don't think it will work any better. Polishing the trigger group will make a difference, it will get rid of the gritty creep, and all ow a much smoother trigger pull.
 
I've always done this to my 10/22s and it does make everything a little smoother, but its not a necessity. If you LIGHTLY stone the sear and hammer connection you can reduce you trigger pull weight aswell.
 
Magellann said:
I doubt polishing the bolt carrier will make much of a difference, carbon may wipe off easier, but I don't think it will work any better. Polishing the trigger group will make a difference, it will get rid of the gritty creep, and all ow a much smoother trigger pull.
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I cant disagree with you more. If you polish the inside of the receiver and bolt it help with any little snags. Most receivers are very rough on the inside but few actually look at it.
Doesnt cost anything but his time. Why not try it?
 
Your right, it doesn't cost anything but time on your part, perhaps on a brand new gun there may be some rough edges inside, but after a couple hundred rounds or so they are usually smoothed out on their own.
 
With rotary mags and hv ammo most 10/22s are little troopers. With subsonics or hicap mags I find a little smoothing out helps them run more reliably. Some of the key areas for me are guide rod, charging handle bore for guide rod (make sure it doesn't bind when misaligned, slightly open with number bits) The hammer spring strut is often rough and benefits atleast from knocking the burrs off with a fine jewelers file, polish the underside of the hammer infront of the hook so it rotates smooth, and I like to radius and polish the bolt and polish the hammer face. With properly fitted BC steel lips mags the gun works great. I clean and oil when I start getting stovepipes.
 
silverfoxdj said:
That's all mine took no babying.. maybe it's the luck of the draw but it worked and has worked flawlessly ever since
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Same here...golden bullets,white box Winchesters...no issues what so ever...although I've been using mini mags lately, around here, there close to the cheapest I can find.
 
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I have polished all of my 10/22's... and I plan to do it to any more that I buy. It's a simple task to do all the trigger bits and the receiver and radius the bolt. Just takes an evening to do. Sit down in front of a movie with everything laid out and have at er. It's cheap, easy to do, and makes everything move smoother. Why wouldn't you do it? It's a no-brainer to me...
 
ert said:
I have polished all of my 10/22's... and I plan to do it to any more that I buy. It's a simple task to do all the trigger bits and the receiver and radius the bolt. Just takes an evening to do. Sit down in front of a movie with everything laid out and have at er. It's cheap, easy to do, and makes everything move smoother. Why wouldn't you do it? It's a no-brainer to me...
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Absolutely agree!!! I myself do it to all my .22s. They run so much smoother! Yup... No brainer!!
 
I have a 50th anniversary 10/22 and it's been nothing but problems. I polished up the receiver and bolt which were both very rough and it helped a lot. I still have a lot of trouble getting it to feed but I think it's mostly mag related now. My opinion is some of them won't require any and others will. It's just up to chance as to which you get.
 
salmonriverfire said:
I have a 50th anniversary 10/22 and it's been nothing but problems. I polished up the receiver and bolt which were both very rough and it helped a lot. I still have a lot of trouble getting it to feed but I think it's mostly mag related now. My opinion is some of them won't require any and others will. It's just up to chance as to which you get.
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Is it stove piping? If so I'd put money on extractor issues. I have quite a few 10/22's and all run KIDD or Volquartsen extractors and will chew up, spit out and feed any ammo that's not sub-sonic. If you are running anything other than factory mags or Butler Creek steel lips you're going to have an issue here and there. I've set up one of my TDSS 10-22's to cycle sub-sonic CCI Quiet ammo and it cycles without error. In addition to all this I now have switched over to dry lubricants such as fine graphite powder and have easily reduced bolt face carbon build up by what I'd say 70% and reliability has been drastically increased.
 
salmonriverfire said:
I have a 50th anniversary 10/22 and it's been nothing but problems. I polished up the receiver and bolt which were both very rough and it helped a lot. I still have a lot of trouble getting it to feed but I think it's mostly mag related now. My opinion is some of them won't require any and others will. It's just up to chance as to which you get.
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You say you have problems feeding... What ammo have u tried?
 
Mine does stovepipe sometimes but often it jams the head of the bullet into the chamber which is why I think my issue is mag related now (butler creek steel lips). The factory 10 rounders work great. Before I polished it they would have jams every few rounds.

As for ammo I've tried a bunch of different stuff.
Initially it didn't like American Eagle (which sucked because I had 6 bricks of it) but it did like remmington golden bullets. I have also used federal blue box 3 types of winchester and an unknown golden bullet looking round bought from the range in a zip lock bag. Since polishing the receiver it will eat everything from the factory mags. Even the American Eagle
 
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