WarpathEngineering
Single-Sixer
I've had a target grey 77/22 for several years now and it's one of my best shooting rifles but I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of it. I have bought probably a dozen 10 round magazines and every one has failed with little use. I once bought 3 new mags prior to an Appleseed and none of them made it thru the 2 day event without malfunction and I was forced to early because I didn't have any way to load the rifle. I've have some that haven't been taken apart, some that have and been cleaned (never lubricated!) and some that have been flushed out with lighter fluid and none of it has made a difference. Every last one of them will stop rotating at some point and were not talking after thousands of rounds either, more like less than 200.
Case in point. This weekend, I took my nephew out for his first time behind a rifle. I took along the last 2 mags that were in my still works pile. The first mag loaded 2 rounds thru the rifle before it quit entirely. I ejected the mag, turned it upside down to rap it on the bench and 2 rounds fell out onto the ground and the follower never advanced. I brought it home with 6 rounds still in it. The 2nd mag fed about 40 rounds and after that we had to rap it on the bench almost every other round to get it to load. I brought along a new BX-15 hoping the single stack orientation would solve the problem. When locked in the rifle, if you can call it that, it wobbled so much that I had to hold constant upwards pressure for it even to strip off rounds into the chamber.
What the hell is going on? Is it the rifle that's the problem and it's ruining the mags or have I just bought every bad mag out there? The rifle is in excellent shape and the magazine retention button moves freely and has plenty of spring tension.
I'm tempted to send the rifle and all the mags back to Ruger but I'm concerned they would remove the aftermarket sights I've put on it.
Any ideas you may have would be great!
Case in point. This weekend, I took my nephew out for his first time behind a rifle. I took along the last 2 mags that were in my still works pile. The first mag loaded 2 rounds thru the rifle before it quit entirely. I ejected the mag, turned it upside down to rap it on the bench and 2 rounds fell out onto the ground and the follower never advanced. I brought it home with 6 rounds still in it. The 2nd mag fed about 40 rounds and after that we had to rap it on the bench almost every other round to get it to load. I brought along a new BX-15 hoping the single stack orientation would solve the problem. When locked in the rifle, if you can call it that, it wobbled so much that I had to hold constant upwards pressure for it even to strip off rounds into the chamber.
What the hell is going on? Is it the rifle that's the problem and it's ruining the mags or have I just bought every bad mag out there? The rifle is in excellent shape and the magazine retention button moves freely and has plenty of spring tension.
I'm tempted to send the rifle and all the mags back to Ruger but I'm concerned they would remove the aftermarket sights I've put on it.
Any ideas you may have would be great!