Brand new Ruger 10/22 FTE

[heronblue7]

My brand new 10/22 fails to eject about one shell out of every magazine.

It seems like the bolt is dragging a little on the mag lips and weakening the ejection.

Should I try a new magazine?

Look for burrs under the bolt?

 

[Downtown]

Both of those are good ideas, but I'll tell you the story with mine. This was with both a new 10-22 and a new Charger, with the same extraction issue, regardless of magazine. I tried different ammo until I found one that functioned. Then discovered that the more of that brand I fired, the more other brands began to function. Finally after ~500 rounds, both pistols eat most everything.

 

[JLP.Payette]

Try different ammo. Once you find an ammo that functions good and shoots good groups stick with it.

 

[Moose]

It does take at least 500 rds to break a 10/22 in.I agree with Downtown.I also had to change all my extractors to Volquartzen for better reliability.

 

[Landon4]

I’ve got several 10/22’s and they were all like that when new, one of them is still pretty picky about ammo, like the others said find one that works and stick with it, I’ve had good luck with cci in most of mine and is usually what I run

 

[MarkCZ]

My brand new 10/22 fails to eject about one shell out of every magazine.

It seems like the bolt is dragging a little on the mag lips and weakening the ejection.

Should I try a new magazine?

Look for burrs under the bolt?

I got a new Target model a few years back. Same as yours. The bolt was covered with something like varnish. I buffed the bolt and Mag., it got a lot better. I got a new Kidd extractor, bolt handle and guide rod. works great now. I later found out a lot of my problem was the new BX25 mag and a mag loader. The mag loader was causing most of the problem. If load by hand no problem. I may have not needed the Kidd parts, but they are nice, all worth the cost. The guide rod comes with 3 springs to match your ammo.

The first thing to look at with feeding and ejection problems, is the mag

 

[Moose]

CCI RN mini mags and Blazers run really well in mine.

 

[heronblue7]

It was choking really bad on CCI standard velocity but did ok with Winchester HV.

Should I just keeping shooting and hope it breaks in or buy a new mag?

Should I try to polish the underside of the bolt?

 

[Tiger_Shilone]

Do the easy thing first, clean it well and get some high quality grease on the bolt and the especially the bolt spring/charging handle assembly. Also inspect for burrs or anyplace the bolt is rubbing on the charging stroke. Use a high quality grease like Twb-25 or Geissele purple grease. Dry lube for these areas is not enough, I know I've tried using just One Shot or Ezox in the past and it just doesn't work on the problematic 10/22's.

Your primary ejector for a 10/22 is the notch in the magazine lip, the ejector arm coming out of the trigger pack is a secondary ejector if the first misses.

2 hardware items for chasing failure to eject after cleaning/lubing:

1) KIDD 10% lighter bolt spring, by itself or in the charging handle kit $10. If you really want to cheap out you cut start cutting coils off the spring to lighten tension, but that's redneck and causes other problems if it spreads or cones.

KIDD Guide Rod & Spring Kit-KIDD-22GRSK

2) stiffer magazine plunger release spring. $3 Not a magazine spring, but the plunger spring that holds the mag in the magwell. IF this is weak it tips the magazines at an angle but this is usually a failure to feed fix.

Magazine Latch Plunger Spring -Standard-KIDD-SPNG-TG1-22PL-S

One of my KIDDS was temperamental on ejecting SV rounds for the last couple of years. Worked fine with HV, but HV ammo consistency isnt what I wanted to use in it. Spent more time clearing malfs and troubleshooting it than shooting. 10% lighter bolt spring helped but did not cure problem. Proper grease on bolt and charging rod cured problem.

Cure the semi-auto problem forever by getting a quality bolt action, that is the route I've pretty much taken.

 

[ta6ppc]

Polish everything inside and out, on the bottom edge of the extractor claw roll the edge ever so slightly with a fine stone wipe everything clean and spray hornady one shot dry lube on your bolt and in inside of your action, let it dry a good while before reassemble, you may polish the metal lip of your mag as well.. should run just about any flavor of ammo you wanna shoot.
I also dovetail /bevel the aft lower portion of the bolt so it glides over the hammer rather than slamming the hammer to reset, there’s a bunch of post with pictures on rimfirecentral.com under 10/22 tips and tricks, sure helped in mine to cycle match and subs..

 

[heronblue7]

I buffed the bolt and mag lips with a medium and fine buffing compound this morning.

Took it to the range this afternoon.

Used Winchester Xpert HV and federal 555 bulk pack.

Got through a few mags with no issues. Usually had about one stoppage per mag. Definitely some improvement.

Ran about 300 rounds through it.

I noticed the Winchester had some misaligned bullets that seemed to cause stoppages.

I guess I should just get some CCi mini mags and try those.

Also the bolt catch was acting funny.. not sure if it was contributing to stoppages, but it was sometimes difficulty to release the bolt.

 

[TxWelder35]

Order a volquartzen extractor. Definitely worth the $10 upgrade for better reliability