I took my brand new Ruger 10/22 out shooting for the first time and it kept jamming. The factory mag jammed sometimes but my 25 round butler creek hot-lips mag was unable to go threw a mag without jamming at least 4 or 5 times! I had extracted shells getting stuck in the bolt, and I had a spent round jam the barrel. What could cause this problem? Surely a mag cant be designed that poorly.
Ruger Problems
- Thread starter Taras92
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If you were using cheap ammo I would try again with cci mini mags ,as this happened to me until i broke it in with a few hundred rounds of mini mags
Did you clean it thoroughly before shooting it for the first time? It is unusual for the factory 10 rounders to not feed. Are the Butler Creek mags steel lips or plastic? You might as well throw away them away if they are plastic. Steel lips are much better but you will get some misfeeds until the gun is broken in. I have had that issue with a couple of 10/22's I have had when they were new. I agree with 007Derek to use Mini Mags until the gun is broken in. After that almost anything will work in the 10/22.
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Another vote for getting the Steel Lips mags.
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A new extractor will help a ton with reliability. The Volquartsen one works well. Ruger should buy it from them for fack sake.
there is a break in on 10/22s, 500 high velocity rounds is considered standard.
as you shoot the rifle, it will polish the rough internals, and it will smooth out. if you have major problems after 1000 rounds (as painstaking as that may sound!), then you'll have to look deeper.
the other option is to sit down and polish the internals yourself.
BTW 10/22s don't jam alot. last time i had mine out it put 300+- down the tube, and i had one fail to fire, i attribute that to the junk dynapoints i was shooting. it had i good, solid mark from the firing pin.
as you shoot the rifle, it will polish the rough internals, and it will smooth out. if you have major problems after 1000 rounds (as painstaking as that may sound!), then you'll have to look deeper.
the other option is to sit down and polish the internals yourself.
BTW 10/22s don't jam alot. last time i had mine out it put 300+- down the tube, and i had one fail to fire, i attribute that to the junk dynapoints i was shooting. it had i good, solid mark from the firing pin.
I would have to agree, I own 2 10/22's and have shot somewhere in the range of 10000 to 15000 rounds through them over the last 15 plus years with only minor issues, most of which were either related to the ammo I was using or in a few cases the "crappy" after market mags I had tried out.
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i have a 1000 rounds down range from a new 10/22,it gets smoother the more i shoot it, so far cci minimags shoot the best, good hunting round too
x2...probably the best $10 you're going to spend and it's easy to install. Putting a VQ extractor in will allow you to shoot anything reliably...including cheap bulk ammo. My 10/22's used to only like CCI Minimags, but now they'll eat anything without complaint.
I have two BC steel lips mags and one of them is finicky while the other is totally reliable. I probably just have to smooth out the finicky one...
Im gonna return my hot lips mag to bp and order a steel lips version, Im also gonna get a VQ extracter. Thanks for all the advice. I was using Federal ammo, whats the best .22LR ammo I can get?
Also, the bolt on my Ruger can now just be pulled back and release to chamber the first round without using the bolt release. I like this much better but im wondering if its a bad thing
Also, the bolt on my Ruger can now just be pulled back and release to chamber the first round without using the bolt release. I like this much better but im wondering if its a bad thing
If you can pull the bolt back and it will slide ahead and chamber a round, you have either installed an auto bolt release or would have had to take a dremel to your factory bolt release to modify it. If you have never done either of those I would take it apart to check for wear. If it wore out for some reason, there may be metal flakes or bits of metal loose in the receiver. I would take it all apart and do a good cleaning to check.
I just picked up a 10/22 myself and shot it yesterday for the first time, wish I knew about the steel lip 25 round mag sooner! damnit I got the plastic lip ones. It was jamming like nuts the first 300 rounds then smoothed out and is getting better and better, this was also using cheap Winchester rounds.
this ^^^^
i used cci mini-mags to break in my 2 10/22's and i tried most of the bulk packs out there and now they both love the fed 525 packs and is pretty reliable. the VQ extractor should be there first thing you buy for your 10/22 and mod your bolt release yourself its easy.
I have a hot lips and a steel lips mag that I purchased this summer. I'm sure the steel lips has potential to last longer, but the hot lips feeds more reliably than the steel lips. The steel lips has gotten better with use though. It wouldn't always keep tension on the cartridges after you pushed in half a dozen. As of late I've run into some issue with stovepiping. I'm going to take out the bolt buffer and see if that's the problem. I have not changed cartridges, still using AE 40 gr solids.
