Ruger 22/45 Lite FTF with VQ bolt tune-up kit

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Title says it all. Fed fine until I installed the VQ extractor and firing pin. Now the first round in the mag looks like it gets stuck up on the extractor and will not feed. Occasionally if I hold down the slide release and rack the bolt again the round will load.

Any ideas? I'm a little pissed at this point...

I will admit that I installed the VQ accurizing kit and had the trigger pin in backwards. Fired fine but it worked its way out. I flipped it around with the gun taken down for basic disassembly before intalling the bolt kit.

 

[Sniper977]

dlarge, I had the same issue with my VQ extractor at the beginning. If you compare the VQ to the stock Ruger extractor you'll notice the ruger extractor is slightly curved on the bottom of the hook to allow the casing to slide smoothly under it and into the bolt notch. The VQ extractor is straight and quite sharp which digs into the casing and gets it stuck. If you want to keep the VQ extractor then you'll need to smooth/round the bottom of the extractor a bit to mimic the Ruger extractor. Just dont round it off as much as the Ruger one since the larger the straight section the more area you have to grip the casing as it bounces around in the bolt notch (and it does bounce around alot in the notch) during recoil. The VQ extractor also works a little better if you have a tight match chamber and match ammo. I actually lost my VQ extractor during a thorough cleaning one day and just put a stock Ruger one back in. I've never had any issue with the stock extractor since its the stock chamber and I use bulk ammo and cci minimags. Hope this helped

By the way, do you have the gold or black 22/45 LITE? Hopefully they will be MA compliant sometime...I want the black one to compliment my stainless MKii 22/45.

 

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dlarge, I had the same issue with my VQ extractor at the beginning. If you compare the VQ to the stock Ruger extractor you'll notice the ruger extractor is slightly curved on the bottom of the hook to allow the casing to slide smoothly under it and into the bolt notch. The VQ extractor is straight and quite sharp which digs into the casing and gets it stuck. If you want to keep the VQ extractor then you'll need to smooth/round the bottom of the extractor a bit to mimic the Ruger extractor. Just dont round it off as much as the Ruger one since the larger the straight section the more area you have to grip the casing as it bounces around in the bolt notch (and it does bounce around alot in the notch) during recoil. The VQ extractor also works a little better if you have a tight match chamber and match ammo. I actually lost my VQ extractor during a thorough cleaning one day and just put a stock Ruger one back in. I've never had any issue with the stock extractor since its the stock chamber and I use bulk ammo and cci minimags. Hope this helped

By the way, do you have the gold or black 22/45 LITE? Hopefully they will be MA compliant sometime...I want the black one to compliment my stainless MKii 22/45.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

Mine is black, but I live in NH.

 

[Sniper977]

let me know if it works for you.

 

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I ended up putting the old extractor back in. Problem solved.

 

[Sniper977]

Sounds good. I have to admit that after using the VQ extractor then going back to the Ruger stock part, I noticed no difference. VQ makes some excellent parts but the extractor seemed like marketing a fix for something that wasnt broken. Anyway, glad your 22/45 is functioning 100% again.