Northman999
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Yukon
Fellows,
I just got a minty R22 and picked up a couple of Butler Creek 25 rd mags, one steel (used from the R22 seller) and one new plastic lipped. I noticed right away that the mags are crazy easy to knock out of position when in the rifle - I mean, you can move them around with the end of your finger on the bottom of the mag. Also, the pins on the front/back of the mags that lock the mag into the rifle seem just too short to cach properly in the mag well - they're just barely holding on there, and any pushing or pulling on the bottom of the mags pops the mag right out of place.
Careful inspection of the rifle around the mag well shows it to be near new, with no dents, bends, significant wear, or significant scratches. I'm convinced the rifle is in the condition it was originally manufactured in, and not broken.
I hit the range today, expecting problems with this, and got them full force. The plastic lipped (new) mag will feed rounds only when I manually work the action - it jams every time when feeding semi-auto. The steel lip mag jams every 3-4 rounds when firing. Both mags are loose, but the steel seems a slight bit firmer. I was shooting Winchester bulk HP's and Remington Subsonic HP's; I did not find any difference in jamming based on ammo.
After I got back home I again carefully looked at the mag well and surrounding areas and it just looks to me like the mags are simply too small for the rifle - like even though Rhineland Arms made this rifle to use Ruger 10/22 mags, it's like they made thier mag well 105% the size it should be, and Ruger mags are just are too loose.
A temporary fix I did was to wrap three layers of black electrical tape around the heads of the mags, making them fit tight in the rifle. I haven't been able to shoot since, but I think this will help significantly. The other thing I'm doing is to make the larger (front) pin on the mag longer, by building it up with JB weld, so that it really grabs into the rifle; which has deep opening that is not being used by the factory mags.
Anyways...I'm not sure my bubba fix will work and I can't be the only guy who has run into this.
What have you done or heard of others doing?
I just got a minty R22 and picked up a couple of Butler Creek 25 rd mags, one steel (used from the R22 seller) and one new plastic lipped. I noticed right away that the mags are crazy easy to knock out of position when in the rifle - I mean, you can move them around with the end of your finger on the bottom of the mag. Also, the pins on the front/back of the mags that lock the mag into the rifle seem just too short to cach properly in the mag well - they're just barely holding on there, and any pushing or pulling on the bottom of the mags pops the mag right out of place.
Careful inspection of the rifle around the mag well shows it to be near new, with no dents, bends, significant wear, or significant scratches. I'm convinced the rifle is in the condition it was originally manufactured in, and not broken.
I hit the range today, expecting problems with this, and got them full force. The plastic lipped (new) mag will feed rounds only when I manually work the action - it jams every time when feeding semi-auto. The steel lip mag jams every 3-4 rounds when firing. Both mags are loose, but the steel seems a slight bit firmer. I was shooting Winchester bulk HP's and Remington Subsonic HP's; I did not find any difference in jamming based on ammo.
After I got back home I again carefully looked at the mag well and surrounding areas and it just looks to me like the mags are simply too small for the rifle - like even though Rhineland Arms made this rifle to use Ruger 10/22 mags, it's like they made thier mag well 105% the size it should be, and Ruger mags are just are too loose.
A temporary fix I did was to wrap three layers of black electrical tape around the heads of the mags, making them fit tight in the rifle. I haven't been able to shoot since, but I think this will help significantly. The other thing I'm doing is to make the larger (front) pin on the mag longer, by building it up with JB weld, so that it really grabs into the rifle; which has deep opening that is not being used by the factory mags.
Anyways...I'm not sure my bubba fix will work and I can't be the only guy who has run into this.
What have you done or heard of others doing?
