Re: Sako Quad 10 Round Mag issues
I don't know that I do anything differently than anyone else. Me and both my uncles bought Quads back when they first came out and I had feeding issues with the .22lr/.17HM2 5 rounder that came with mine new. I ordered a few more mags, at that time only 5 rounders were available as far as I knew and they were on backorder for seems like a year from Impact Guns. In the meantime, I shot the .17HMR/.22Mag combination - which I have never had a problem with mags or ammo.
I mean, we had forgotten about ordering the mags when I finally got an email saying that 3 of the 10 we ordered were shipping - that is how long it took and we only ever did get 5 out of the 10 we originally ordered.
I ordered some more from Brownells, 10's and 5's, and when I got those and we divi'd them up, I ended up with another 5 rounder that had issues. No issues reported on any of the other magazines regardless of loaded capacity.
We shoot these guns a lot and I don't know that I do anything other than load the mag, whack it into the palm of my other hand to seat the rounds back into the mag once it is loaded (a habit I do with all of my mags regardless of caliber or make) and start shooting.
I have Eley .17HM2 ammo that will fail to extract from time to time, but no feeding issues from the mags....I don't know why mine work, but I'm happy that they do.