Ruger SR22 multiple FTF

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Hi,
i just purchased this little beauty, brought to the range last night for a meet and greet and faced quite a few FTF jams with Winchester and Aguila ammo. I gave up fighting with it after a 2 boxes of each brand.

Does anyone have suggestions to correct this behavior or is this just one of those guns that requires a significant break-in period. I did break it down and give a full cleaning before hitting the range, just wondering if i just got a bad unit and need to call Ruger

Thanks in advance.
 
Every time I've seen an SR22 on the range, I've seen the same sort of thing. Best of luck with it.
 
I've got over 5K thru my SR22 with no issues...that being said my Dad had one and he needed a break in period of several hundred rds...use quality ammo esp during the break in period
 
Bostonbravesfan said:
Hi,
i just purchased this little beauty, brought to the range last night for a meet and greet and faced quite a few FTF jams with Winchester and Aguila ammo. I gave up fighting with it after a 2 boxes of each brand.

Does anyone have suggestions to correct this behavior or is this just one of those guns that requires a significant break-in period. I did break it down and give a full cleaning before hitting the range, just wondering if i just got a bad unit and need to call Ruger

Thanks in advance.
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I had problems with mine. You can see some suggestions in the thread below.

I had to send mine back and they ended up giving me a new one.



http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/298726-New-Ruger-SR22-Issues?highlight=Sr22
 
They like HV ammo at least for the break in period. Not sure what type of ftf you are experiencing but if it just isnt picking a new round it probably just needs some time. Try some mini mags and see how it works.
 
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Bostonbravesfan said:
Hi,
i just purchased this little beauty, brought to the range last night for a meet and greet and faced quite a few FTF jams with Winchester and Aguila ammo. I gave up fighting with it after a 2 boxes of each brand.

Does anyone have suggestions to correct this behavior or is this just one of those guns that requires a significant break-in period. I did break it down and give a full cleaning before hitting the range, just wondering if i just got a bad unit and need to call Ruger

Thanks in advance.
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I highly recommend a good cleaning & lube, followed by shooting 200+ rounds of CCI stingers or CCI minimags!!!
 
No problems with ours. But, the Winchester stuff can be like a new Golden Bullet sometimes.

From the manual:

AMMUNITION
The RUGER® SR22® pistols are chambered for the 22 Long Rifle cartridge. Do not attempt to load any other 22 caliber cartridges into the magazine or chamber of the pistol.

The RUGER® SR22® pistols are compatible with all factory ammunition of the correct caliber loaded to U.S. Industry Standards, including high-velocity and hollow-point loads. However, sub-sonic or match-grade ammunition may not have sufficient energy to cycle the slide. If you find that the slide does not cycle fully, try another brand of ammunition.
 
Mine can be finicky unless I use HV ammo.

as above, try minimags and clean the feed ramp (or whatever technical term it's called)
 
Do the mag followers move smoothly, if not, a little sandpaper on the sides of the followers usually helps
 
mikelawtown said:
Break it in with Mini Mags then junk the Winchester ammo.
Mine runs 100% with Fed AutoMatch 325 bulk packs and any CCI. It does bad with Winchester 333 and 555 packs.
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This. Make sure feed ramp is cleaned. The 333 and 555 is crap 22. Probably the only 22 ammo I won't buy.
 
Sorry to hear of your problems with the SR22. I have had mine for a few years now and have only had one single issue after a few thousand rounds, a single instance of stove-piping. I have probably run at least a half dozen different brands of ammo through it including every brand mentioned in the post, again without any problems.
 
Thanks everyone, this is exactly why i love this community. The issues are failure to fire, the rounds chamber the hammer falls, but no bang :) Just a little unnerving pulling a live round out of the gun when you know that it should have gone off. I'll give it another good cleaning and read through the thread again that Barnabus linked earlier if it doesn't get better after a few more sessions at the range i'll have to call.
 
Mine and my sons will only eat remington golden bullets consistently. Most times its the ammo.
 
Alright well let's see two fold here one does it look like your primer got a good strike from the hammer? Will the round go off if you pull the trigger again?
 
What are you using for lube ?
A friend of mine insisted on using that frog lube crap on his and the thing wouldn't work right till we stripped it and scrubbed all that crap off and used CLP .
After that no problem.
 
When I bought mine new from Four Seasons, I had to send it back to Ruger a month later because it was failing to feed on ~3-4 rounds per mag with all different types of ammo. When I got the pistol back, ruger sent a repair summary stating they swapped out the barrel and slide with a new one. Since then, its been running much, much better. Is it perfect? No...but its rimfire. I ONLY shoot Federal AutoMatch 325rd bulk packs (lead) as they are readily available at both my LGS. Sometimes I can shoot the entire box with no issues, other times, I have failures to feed but its ammo related. The round was hot enough to eject the spent case but not hot enough to totally cycle the slide to chamber another round. Is what it is. The gun does not need to be ran "wet." In fact I would avoid against that as the oil will trap fouling. At one point, I had over 2k rounds through mine without cleaning (thread on here somewhere) and it kept running just fine. I currently have 800+ rounds without cleaning and it runs great. Moral of the story, run it more dry than wet, and use good ammo. Mini mags or AutoMatch should do the trick.
 
I've only put about 400 rounds through mine since I acquired it used last year. I had 0 malfunctions with federal automatch, cci standard velocity, golden bullets (the 100 pack not the bulk), and winchester super x. Put 100 rounds of each through it.

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Most of my .22's won't cycle the Winchester white box hollow points if that is the Winchester you are using. Bullet nose is a bit of a cone shape vs round.
 
I had a few fte when new. I fed mine a steady diet of CCi mini mags. When I field stripped it after the first range trip I noticed there was a small thin piece of metal that rose up from the frame and it looked slightly bent. The slide rides over this piece of metal. I straightened it out and the slide moved so much more freely and has been problem free ever since. I have probably a thousand rounds through it now and it pretty much eats anything.

Jim
 
so just another update, fed 200 rounds of golden bullets and another 100 rounds of Aguila and still had quite a few FTF. This brings the total rounds through the gun approx 600-700. While i was cleaning, i noticed that on the underside of the rail there was a spot that was quite worn which does not seem normal.
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Bostonbravesfan said:
so just another update, fed 200 rounds of golden bullets and another 100 rounds of Aguila and still had quite a few FTF. While i was cleaning, i noticed that on the underside of the rail there was a spot that was quite worn which does not seem normal.
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Yeah, that doesn't look normal. Mine has 1,000 rounds or so through it and almost no signs of wear, nothing like that and I've had 0 malfunctions. I don't even clean and lube it very well. You may be sending that one back to Ruger.
 
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Bostonbravesfan said:
so just another update, fed 200 rounds of golden bullets and another 100 rounds of Aguila and still had quite a few FTF. This brings the total rounds through the gun approx 600-700. While i was cleaning, i noticed that on the underside of the rail there was a spot that was quite worn which does not seem normal.
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That certainly doesn't look like anything that a gun with a few hundred rounds through it should look like
 
I had no problems with my SR22 if I kept it and the mags spotless and well lubed. Spent 10-15 minutes after every range trip...if I did not, I had FTF's.
 
Are your FTFs a failure to feed or fire?

I've had my SR22 for a few years and it's been flawless with any ammo. However, a friend bought a new one last week and it fails to fire about 25% of the time. It feeds fine, but wont ignite the primer, even after pulling the trigger a few times in a row double action. In fact, when this happens, there are no strikes on the case when we manually eject it. Something is going on with the firing pin. He brought it back to the gun store and they are sending it back to Ruger. Never saw that happen before.



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mikelawtown said:
Break it in with Mini Mags then junk the Winchester ammo.
Mine runs 100% with Fed AutoMatch 325 bulk packs and any CCI. It does bad with Winchester 333 and 555 packs.[/QUOTE


Cleaning any brand new firearm is a necessity. Mine runs the same ammo with no problem.
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I had issues with the pistol failing to cycle with *any* plain lead round, but a quick fix by Ruger solved that problem. I have noticed that Fed Automatch will still fail-to-cycle on occasion (about every 10 or 20 rounds) so I have shot through what I had left and won't buy any more

CCI mini-mags and CCI AR tactical rounds are only a half penny to one cent more than the crap ammo, so I just save myself the aggravation and now just run rounds that always fire and cycle the pistol
 

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