Thread: 10-22 jams -got me stumped

I consider myself as having a pretty good knowledge of 10/22 rifles and getting them to work correctly
My new build is playing up at 1st starting to stovepipe the odd time once a bit dirty 100 rounds or so (since last cleaning)
I was pretty sure it was a bad extractor on the oem bolt
So I grabbed a volquartsen Extractor to replace the oem
I also got the kidd charging handle not that I thought that would help with fiction I just wanted one

Installed the lighter of the 3 springs (got no interest in running high Velocity its a target rifle so gets run purely on match ammo)

This seemed to fix it for awhile but now it back to its old tricks
And worse than ever (its once or twice a mag now) and not only that its also double feeding


Im thinking mag issue (only have one mag handy) should probably go and buy another one

I’ll probably get a kidd bolt at some stage when funds allow as the rifle has a kidd trigger
From memory (back when I had a factory kidd rifle) the bolt is a slightly different profile at the rear to help with function

However it should be working correctly as is
But its got me stumped

Any ideas

cleaned your mag also?

which ammo ???

Originally Posted by mimms2

Yeah pull your mag and reset the spring. I think it's 270° preload from memory.
Pull your barrel and clean the shit out of the extractor grove. Have a look for any indication it's been clipping the sides or bottoming out. Take to it with a file if you like. If it's the clamped barrel make sure it goes in square and you tighten the two bolts incrementally and evenly.
Is your bolt head-spaced?
You can also round off the extractor claw on the slidey-sides.

Once it's clean and back together, you can draw all over the slideybits with vivid, and see where it wears off in use.

Shooting supressed? a whole whack of shitdust blows back through the action. I'd stick with a standard spring for now, just to eliminate one more variable.

All done apart from the mag re-tention which Ill do tonight
Should of thought of that actually

Originally Posted by gonetropo

which ammo ???

Everything from cci to lapua so far
Probably had 1000 rounds though it
Shoots about 0.4 inches at 50m some ammo’s better some worse

Some mags just suck do you have just the one

If I remember correctly the first ejector is part of the mag and the second, part of the trigger group.

1000 rnds is definitely enough to cack up a mag or 2