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Posted: 7/22/2011 7:06:26 PM EDT
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Long story short both of my 10/22's are having issues with feeding and ejecting, and various other problems. Even with the ruger 10 round magazines.
Some of this is ammo and magazine issues, but they are just too finiky in general. I would not really care but this is my wife's SHTF rifle. Are there any simple reliability upgrades that I can do myself on these rifles to make them a bit more robust? |
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the bolt can be worked over. the lower rear corner can be raidused which helps cycling with lower power ammo , the firing pin can be pinned to make it strike the primer more consistently and the bolt face can have the headspace corrected. you can also upgrade the extractor to a Volquartsen or other aftermarket unit.
the guyd rod can be polished or replaced completely. most aftermarket extractors are about $10 and most aftermarket guide rods are about $30. you can also send the bolt out to have ti reworked and it's usually a reasonable price. IIRC i think some places do it for about $50 including the new extractor and they usually clean up the bolt and jewl the outside face. or oyu can have it blued. get a bolt buffer while you're at it. |
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Long story short both of my 10/22's are having issues with feeding and ejecting, and various other problems. Even with the ruger 10 round magazines. Some of this is ammo and magazine issues, but they are just too finiky in general. I would not really care but this is my wife's SHTF rifle. Are there any simple reliability upgrades that I can do myself on these rifles to make them a bit more robust? I don't doubt that you have had issues, but I wonder why. I have five 10/22's, some I have been using since 1976, and I have no problems with any of them. What ammo are you using? Try some CCI in them. Really, none of my 10/22's has ever missed a beat, with good ammo, and all have factory stock parts. Maybe I am the luckiest guy in the world? Only issues I ever had were ammo related and easy to fix...dump the bad ammo! |
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Long story short both of my 10/22's are having issues with feeding and ejecting, and various other problems. Even with the ruger 10 round magazines. Some of this is ammo and magazine issues, but they are just too finiky in general. I would not really care but this is my wife's SHTF rifle. Are there any simple reliability upgrades that I can do myself on these rifles to make them a bit more robust? I don't doubt that you have had issues, but I wonder why. I have five 10/22's, some I have been using since 1976, and I have no problems with any of them. What ammo are you using? Try some CCI in them. Really, none of my 10/22's has ever missed a beat, with good ammo, and all have factory stock parts. Maybe I am the luckiest guy in the world? Only issues I ever had were ammo related and easy to fix...dump the bad ammo! CCI works great. Eagle some other bulk ammo works terribly. |
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I really need to get a buffer... there's a guy on rimfirecentral.com selling 4 buffers shipped for $5 next best deal is the Tuffer Buffers which is 3 shipped form Canada for $12 since most vendors want about $10 for one and many vendors will charge $8 or so for shipping the two above are very good deals. heck, i ordered 8 of the cheap ones for $10 had enough for all the 10/22s i have and spares for any friends who needed one. |
I had the same probs with mine terrible reliability jamming, extracting etc. Mine is torn down right now since the front sight post was broke and the stock dented i decided to go all out and upgrade it. I got a new bull barrel, had the bolt polished new extractor installed, buffer, new hex screws, new stock, paint, scope, trigger job ,ext mag relase, scope and more importantl CLEANED it was really nasty. See how it does when its all back together hopefully it'll be much better  .
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the bolt can be worked over. the lower rear corner can be raidused which helps cycling with lower power ammo , the firing pin can be pinned to make it strike the primer more consistently and the bolt face can have the headspace corrected. you can also upgrade the extractor to a Volquartsen or other aftermarket unit. the guyd rod can be polished or replaced completely. most aftermarket extractors are about $10 and most aftermarket guide rods are about $30. you can also send the bolt out to have ti reworked and it's usually a reasonable price. IIRC i think some places do it for about $50 including the new extractor and they usually clean up the bolt and jewl the outside face. or oyu can have it blued. get a bolt buffer while you're at it. Kidd Innovative Designs makes one hell of a guide rod assembly for around $15.00. |
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