Thread: Consumer Guarantees Act - Rifles

Purchased a brand new 77/22 22LR yesterday and it took it to the range last night. It shot alright but barrels not floated so I'm happy enough with accuracy really.

Issue is it's has feeding and ejection issues. It feeds most rounds alright maybe jammed 5 of the 100 odd assorted bullets (8 types) but it jammed every single PowerPoint without fail. This is the lesser issue as I can deal with this by using other ammo.

The biggest issue is it doesn't eject maybe 10% of the rounds once again some brands are better than others but for a relatively expensive 22 this isn't ok. It stove pipes every federal bulk round and the Browning BPR rounds (a shame as is the most accurate round. The rim just slides past the fixed ejector and doesn't eject holding on to the case. The only cases that didn't have an issue were cci stingers and they shot like shit so that's not an option also only shot 10 rounds of them.

Possible issues:
Bolt is lose as anything (can wobble in any direction but the old one I shot was like this and has no issues so i didnt really care and I don't think it ever jammed and I used it most nights spotlighting with the old man.)
Magazine is also loose and almost looks like a fake (a 10/22 mag and ruger American mag fit much better. It's a different colour, shape, and has bad joints etc. I couldn't test the other mags as another store just let me have a look while I was talking about the issue.)

So I have taken it back and they want to send it to a gunsmith. I'm not really happy with this as it's new and it should work. I won't be buying anymore mag as for a while so if it only works with this magazine after the fix then I feel I don't have a comeback as I likely won't know for a wee while. Do I have to accept the repair and does the consumers guarantee cover me? I feel feeding and ejection is a major fault and as such I shouldn't have to accept a repair. If be happy with a credit and just get a different model rifle.

I think the worse was the excitement of the rifle only to have it fail and make me wish I had just brought a different rifle.