Hi All:
About three weeks ago, I purchased a Ruger III 22/45 Hunter, to use: a) in local speed steel shooting events; b) as a cheap way to supplement my practice for IPSC. But the gun has been failing to feed and jamming pretty regularly. I did not dare use it in competition.
I managed to troubleshoot the problem: it turns out that none of the four magazines that I have for it will reliably lock into place. They'll appear to be locked in, but when you tug on them, they come right out. What's been happening is that when I'm firing, they're backing out of the handle, ergo the eventual FTF and the jams.
I took it back to the gun shop where I purchased it, and their gunsmith has declared "the gun is not out of spec" and that the magazines will lock into place "if you press on the rear of the magazine base." By that, he means that all the normal means of insertions (a press of the entire palm, a solid slap in, or even a meticulous pressing up on the middle of the base with your fingers), won't make the magazines click in. You have to press on the rear base edge just right.
So, it's the shop's position that the gun is fine, and that all Ruger III 22/45's need can only have a magazine reliably fed by a specific rear-of-the-base-pushing insertion method. It's my position that this is mind-numbingly pathetic nonsense.
But to be certain, I thought I'd ask: has anyone ever heard of Ruger III 22/45 having such a systemic idiosyncrasy with its magazine feeding?
And for that matter, what's a consumer to do in a case like this? (I'm a newbie.) The shop is saying that if I press this matter, there'll be nothing to be done but to ship the gun off to Ruger, and my expectation is that I won't get it back again for a looooooong time. Personally, I'm of the opinion that a gun that just doesn't work right should be returnable. (And I'm particularly browned off at the shop, because I've been a sterling customer of theirs.)
About three weeks ago, I purchased a Ruger III 22/45 Hunter, to use: a) in local speed steel shooting events; b) as a cheap way to supplement my practice for IPSC. But the gun has been failing to feed and jamming pretty regularly. I did not dare use it in competition.
I managed to troubleshoot the problem: it turns out that none of the four magazines that I have for it will reliably lock into place. They'll appear to be locked in, but when you tug on them, they come right out. What's been happening is that when I'm firing, they're backing out of the handle, ergo the eventual FTF and the jams.
I took it back to the gun shop where I purchased it, and their gunsmith has declared "the gun is not out of spec" and that the magazines will lock into place "if you press on the rear of the magazine base." By that, he means that all the normal means of insertions (a press of the entire palm, a solid slap in, or even a meticulous pressing up on the middle of the base with your fingers), won't make the magazines click in. You have to press on the rear base edge just right.
So, it's the shop's position that the gun is fine, and that all Ruger III 22/45's need can only have a magazine reliably fed by a specific rear-of-the-base-pushing insertion method. It's my position that this is mind-numbingly pathetic nonsense.
But to be certain, I thought I'd ask: has anyone ever heard of Ruger III 22/45 having such a systemic idiosyncrasy with its magazine feeding?
And for that matter, what's a consumer to do in a case like this? (I'm a newbie.) The shop is saying that if I press this matter, there'll be nothing to be done but to ship the gun off to Ruger, and my expectation is that I won't get it back again for a looooooong time. Personally, I'm of the opinion that a gun that just doesn't work right should be returnable. (And I'm particularly browned off at the shop, because I've been a sterling customer of theirs.)
