10/22 Takedown Shakedown: Jamming With Lead!

[jaryd67]

Howdy!

This is my first "question" post, so apologies if I'm in the wrong place. I just got back from some late-night range time with a friend and my new Ruger 10/22 Takedown rifle. I put about 40 or so lead nosed CCI's downrange before the thing kept jamming every other round. Barrel is tight, and she shoots fine with the copper jacketed mini-mags, but the gun suffers from "Fail To Feed" with lead. You can actually see where the barrel "bites" into the bullet, deforming the lead. We tried several different mags, and ran my mags thru another 10/22. Everything is fine except for the lead bullet & 10/22 Takedown combo...

Thoughts?

 

[Jason Flare]

I just bought a new 10/22 Takedown on Friday and haven't shot it. You might want to bump this thread in the morning to get some responses. I'm listening patiently to learn.

 

[doctorbossman]

I just got one this Saturday. Put about 100 rounds CCI mini mags and 50 rounds of no name lead nosed. I did notice that one lead nose I unchambered did have a notch in it. Are the dimensions/overall lengts of the copper and lead rounds the same?

 

[Dirtypacman]

I fired most everything out of mine fine. I have had issues with different mags and the tension so double check that for potential problem solver.

 

[dnepro-mike]

i don't have 10/22 so take my advice with the grain of salt
from what i heard from you i believe a bit of a ramp/feed surface polish, smooth/round edges might fix your FTF.

 

[Rob893]

I have two 10/22s, one takedown, one regular. Never had an FTF with the takedown after about 3,000 rounds through it. Had a couple with the regular model (my son's) but after a good cleaning there wasn't any problem.

 

[dnepro-mike]

basically YMMV
just like with sr22 most people have no problems until some one gets defective one.
really inspect the action and maybe even manually cycle it in slow-motion to see where problem possibly is.
worst case scenario you might have to take it to ruger

 

[Harleynut]

I just bought my 3rd 10/22 a takedown model this time. My other two are old and shoot Federal bulk pack stuff and never a problem with it. The new gun didn't like it and I tried the mini mags and it did like them. Now after adding some oil and shooting probably 300 rounds though it the gun is doing much better with the cheap bulk pack stuff I think its really just a break in issue and after you get some rounds though it all will be fine.
I ended up putting a red dot on and and lots of fun to shoot.

 

[Shmittey]

Mine would not feed federal bulk pack at all. Mini mags were flawless. There was a Burr somewhere on the bolt release, could not release bolt until i stripped it down, cleaned and lubed... Flawless operation now.

All i have now is cci standard velocity lead, we will see how that feeds this weekend.

Just got a volquartsen trigger group the other day, can't wait to get it to the range.

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[John4166]

I have seen CCI lead with too much wax on them causing feeding froblems

 

[mike01824]

I shoot the CCI lead with great results from my olympic blue takedown. Mine doesnt like the Federal bulk stuff, but thats fine cuz the CCI lead nose seems to be more accurate out of it anyways.

 

[ToddDubya]

Howdy!

This is my first "question" post, so apologies if I'm in the wrong place. I just got back from some late-night range time with a friend and my new Ruger 10/22 Takedown rifle. I put about 40 or so lead nosed CCI's downrange before the thing kept jamming every other round. Barrel is tight, and she shoots fine with the copper jacketed mini-mags, but the gun suffers from "Fail To Feed" with lead. You can actually see where the barrel "bites" into the bullet, deforming the lead. We tried several different mags, and ran my mags thru another 10/22. Everything is fine except for the lead bullet & 10/22 Takedown combo...

Thoughts?

Is it the rifling that bites into the bullet or is it getting caught on it's way into the chamber?

While you're pondering that, take one of mini-mags and set it next to the lead nose and see if there's a length difference (or measure with calipers if you have them). I would expect that if they fit in the mag, they'd function in the gun but maybe the lead nosed rounds are just enough longer that they jam.

+1 on polishing the feed ramp. That seems to help everything.