Broken brand new 10/22 worth fixing, or throw away?

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Skylerbone said:
Fourth, if you start with a closed bolt and attempt to load a magazine you can have a real fight on your hands.
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Sorry guys, I was writing just after midnight, after a 3-State drive with 6 kids and the wife (weekend road trip). What I meant to imply was that the OP should not be loading a magazine in at any point at home while having issues with jams. Where my addled brain got those specifics about opened or closed I don’t want to fathom. FWIW I load mine closed as well, always have.
 
I'd ship the gun back, but if you don't want to - just buy the Ruger BX trigger for it. It includes an entire new trigger group with upgraded trigger so you'll be getting an upgrade an fixing the problem part all in one swoop.
 
Skylerbone said:
Sorry guys, I was writing just after midnight, after a 3-State drive with 6 kids and the wife (weekend road trip). What I meant to imply was that the OP should not be loading a magazine in at any point at home while having issues with jams. Where my addled brain got those specifics about opened or closed I don’t want to fathom. FWIW I load mine closed as well, always have.
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Fair enough. Hope you've recovered.
 
Heck, I'd take it off your hands. Have everything to make one except the "upper"......Kidd trigger, walnut stock, stainless barrel, mount, scope.....
 
Spats McGee said:
Could your location (AK) have anything to do with that?
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No, I had that problem when I lived int he Lower 48, too. I've posted about it here before. Short story is, regardless of what the law says, I've never been able to get an employee of USPS or FedEx to actually accept the gun at the counter. They have always refused. Supervisors have always supported them.
 
fpgt72 said:
Simple, use it as a tomato stake and get yourself a model 60

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I will be hiding somewhere.
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I already have one, and it is farrrrrrrrr superior to this 10/22. (And my Model 60 is over 30 yrs old.) That said, the Model 60 has never been what I'd call a stellar performer, although both guns are pretty accurate.
 
Are you going to a ups hub or to the ups store? Never had a problem shipping from an actual ups location. The ups stores will not ship firearms. At least around here they wont.
 
PapaG said:
Heck, I'd take it off your hands. Have everything to make one except the "upper"......Kidd trigger, walnut stock, stainless barrel, mount, scope.....
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Yup...like most 10/22's you have to replace everything to make it a good gun.....where if you got a Marlin 60 you could just shoot it.

Is this too much trolling......where did that other thread go.

I am funning here guns (kinda)......
 
As for shipping the gun back to Ruger, you do know that you can mail long guns via the U.S. Postal Service? USPS only prohibits non-FFLs from mailing handguns.

But first, I would watch this video, then detail strip, inspect, and reassemble the trigger group. I think you'll find either your trigger group was mis-assembled, something broke, or there is debris in the trigger group.
 
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Took it back to the range today. Test fired 10 rounds through it with no problem. Started my first string of the stage, gun jammed on the 9th shot. Exact same failure mode as last week. One round half way in the chamber and another in the chamber at an angle with the bolt slammed onto both of them. We had to pry one of the rounds out with a knife.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
Took it back to the range today. Test fired 10 rounds through it with no problem. Started my first string of the stage, gun jammed on the 9th shot. Exact same failure mode as last week. One round half way in the chamber and another in the chamber at an angle with the bolt slammed onto both of them. We had to pry one of the rounds out with a knife.
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Both unfired? If so magazine issue.

I've got a mag here somewhere I think. I'll go look for it, and if I can find it you can have it.
 
Texas10mm said:
https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2011/pb22321/html/updt_001.htm

That's all ya need to get the window clerk to let you mail a long gun.
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Been there, done that. Doesn't work. I've done everything short of hiring an attorney and suing the post office.

Bottom line is this: when you're standing at in the post office with a packaged and addressed rifle, and NO employee or supervisor in the building will physically accept your rifle for shipping, and you've sown them their own rules, what else can you do? Absolutely nothing.
 
LoonWulf said:
Both unfired? If so magazine issue.

I've got a mag here somewhere I think. I'll go look for it, and if I can find it you can have it.
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Both unfired. Two different magazines. Both Ruger factory. Both 25 rounders.

However...now that you mention it...

This didn't happen when my son was shooting it in youth league. (Slow fire from the bench) It only started happening when I started shooting it in adult league (which is very similar to USPSA). It was at that time that I also switched from two, new factory 10 round magazines, to these 25 round magazines.

I let another competitor, who builds race gun 10/22s, take it home for the week and take a look at it. If he comes up with nothing, I'll go back to the 10 round magazines and see what we get.
 
10/22 's can be stubborn and will be easier to operate when you more familiar how it operates . I bought a bunch of stuff for mine and sold it all Magpul stock and Kidd parts , automatic bolt release and over size receiver pins is all I kept. Nobody wanted Trushot sights so reinstalled them
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D.B. Cooper said:
Been there, done that. Doesn't work. I've done everything short of hiring an attorney and suing the post office.

Bottom line is this: when you're standing at in the post office with a packaged and addressed rifle, and NO employee or supervisor in the building will physically accept your rifle for shipping, and you've sown them their own rules, what else can you do? Absolutely nothing.
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Ask to talk to the Post Master. If that fails ask them for the number to the local Postal Inspector.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
Been there, done that. Doesn't work. I've done everything short of hiring an attorney and suing the post office.

Bottom line is this: when you're standing at in the post office with a packaged and addressed rifle, and NO employee or supervisor in the building will physically accept your rifle for shipping, and you've sown them their own rules, what else can you do? Absolutely nothing.
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DB, that is when you pull out your cell phone and call USPS postal Service Customer service at 800-275-8777. Explain the issue and have them talk to your postmaster.
 
stringnut said:
Are you going to a ups hub or to the ups store? Never had a problem shipping from an actual ups location. The ups stores will not ship firearms. At least around here they wont.
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Here in the Ft. Pierce UPS Hub, I had to call Ruger and have them fax a copy of their FFL, before they would ship the firearm. The same thing happened when I was sending a revolver back to Dan Wesson, for repair.
 
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