Ruger 10/22 mags - is it just me .... ?

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A while back at a gun show, I bought an 'as new' Ruger 10/22 mag fer cheep. Wouldn't feed.

I took it apart, but it wasn't dirty, cleaned by the seller and incorrectly reassembled. Didn't take long to figure out that you need to wind up the spring with the hexagonal nut at the rear of the mag, keeping it under tension as you position it into the recess at the rear of the magazine. Takes a little doing, and a third hand would be an asset.
Anybody got a sure fire method that is a little less aggravating?

A clear plastic Ruger mag I bought at the same time comes apart with an Allen key. My older black mags all need a Torx screwdriver tip. Looks like Ruger got some feed back on this and decided to make it a little easier.
 
I'm not sure if your talking about the 10 or 25 round mag. I've purchased several butler creek 25 round mags and have never had to do a thing to them except i do run a q-tip over the lip to get some crud off. I've probably fired several hundred rounds easily from each one. I've also found the bulter creekloader is great, not much faster but keeps your hands cleaner.
 
Sharps '63 said:
A while back at a gun show, I bought an 'as new' Ruger 10/22 mag fer cheep. Wouldn't feed.

I took it apart, but it wasn't dirty, cleaned by the seller and incorrectly reassembled. Didn't take long to figure out that you need to wind up the spring with the hexagonal nut at the rear of the mag, keeping it under tension as you position it into the recess at the rear of the magazine. Takes a little doing, and a third hand would be an asset.
Anybody got a sure fire method that is a little less aggravating?

A clear plastic Ruger mag I bought at the same time comes apart with an Allen key. My older black mags all need a Torx screwdriver tip. Looks like Ruger got some feed back on this and decided to make it a little easier.
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I've found that clamping the mag in a vice helps when your trying to tension the spring.
 
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Obviously I'm talking about the ten round mags.

Mjolnir

Thanks for the tip! Doing that would have helped a lot.
 
I personally love buying "broken" mags from people who say they are junk for dirt cheap... Hit them with some cleaning filing and some light mods then shooting the crap out of them... Anyone have some "junk" promag 10/22 mags they'd like to sell me haha
 
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