Feeding and Sighting Issue

[Lex0]

So I went to the range today to try my new 10/22 Tactical for the first time. Within a short time I had it sighted in for 50 yards and was really impressed with the accuracy. While setting it up I was trying different types of ammo to see what worked best. Started with CCI they shot great, then tried Federal and didn't care for them as much. They didn't seem as accurate and had multiple hang ups. Then went to Target Rifle and they shot great and had the best accuracy. Went back to CCI as I had a second box of them, which had I shot the box I would have been at about 200 rounds total. Though at maybe the 180 mark every shot began to hang up, nothing would eject and bullets were getting bent and deformed inside the action. I had to extract the shells manually after each shot. This is the strange thing when the gun did fire my accuracy was way off, not inches either I mean about three feet low. I was actually hitting the ground in front of my target, this all following a round where I was hitting near centre on the target with no extraction problems. Now I get that the gun is going to get dirty after 150 rounds of so but to have every single shot hang up and accuracy be off by three feet seems really strange to me. Had I not been sitting with the gun I would think someone would have had to tamper with my scope for it to be that far off. Any help or similar stories would due greatly appreciated. My first 22 so any and all advice is welcome. Sorry for the long post.

 

[Pat-inCO]

Since it is your first one, I suggest reviewing the Ruger videos and see
if anything there will help.
http://www.ruger.com/videos.html?vid=185541100&cat=3682966

It sounds like it might be a cleaning issue.

 

[Captain America]

I agree with Pat, my wife's 10/22 was loaded with some sort of thick metal preservative that is not a lube. .22lr can be dirty, combine that with the cosmoline(if you didn't clean and lube the gun first) and the action can get gummed up pretty quick.

 

[Lex0]

Thanks Pat,
I will definitely check out the video. I neglected to mention in my first post that I did clean the barrel and breach following this and it still continued to do the same thing. The hang ups I could understand will happen with carbon build up but the sight going off that much really has me stumped. Thanks again for the advice.

 

[Mobuck]

Is the barrel still tight(no wiggle or twist)?
I don't usually see such a big POI shift even when the crud builds up and ammo begins to get kinked during cycling.

 

[coach]

I've had scopes loosen or shift. Could be the mount, rings or scope. Never thought the .22 was particularly hard on any.

 

[ldalcorn]

So the same thing is happening to my wife's MKIII - sort of. We bought it new just this past August and had fired about 200 rounds through it during our first range session. Dead-on accuracy and not an issue with anything. Cleaned and lubed it well when I got home. Then...half way through the last range session (after 50 - 60 rounds), it would not feed from a full magazine. If we loaded it with just nine, it worked (for a while). The accuracy was off, too...was shooting up 3" and left 2", when before it was dead on. Then, it wouldn't feed at all (every bullet it tried to load had a small half-moon depression on the nose so it was clearly hitting something. I bought some better bullets, thinking that might help and no change...and then the last bullet lodged at a weird angle in the barrel and I had to work it hard to get it out. Came home, cleaned and lubed it again and racked a bunch of bullets through it with no apparent problem. This time, I also lubed up each of the mags before loading them, thinking that just maybe they were introducing the bullets at a weird angle from being tight (??). Took the gun out today and racked a bunch of shells through it with no issue. So...this is a new gun to me and I have no knowledge on it. Has this happens to any of you, and how did you fix it? Do you all think its simply a cleaning/lube issue, or should I contact Ruger about this and figure out if its mechanical?

Also, my natural tendency is to go light on the oil for my guns, but the range officer that was working with us on this issue said that he thought it wanted more oil. Any thoughts on that?