ontarget
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The SS I picked up this week looked pretty good in the poor lighting of the lgs.
Bore and chambers were dirty as if not cleaned after the last range trip.
I figured, it's a Ruger .22, what could go wrong?
I promised myself I was going to do some shooting today, so I grabbed my new six gun and headed out the back door.
I opened the loading gate, dropped in the first cartridge, advanced the cylinder, tried to drop in the next cartridge, but no way it was going in without a fight. Next one same, next one drops right in, next one drops in, next one no way.
I mean I had to use enough force to push them in that it hurt my fingers. Before anyone asks, I do have lumberjack hands, not snowflake hands..
Now, after 3 cylinders I could no longer load 2 of the chambers at all, so I put it away and grabbed my 1956 flat gate SS and finished my range time.
Now that there is a smooth operator.
Afterwards I cleaned and polished the chambers of the offending cylinder, thinking maybe someone was firing shorts through it without good cleaning. I saw no signs of a crud ring or anything else that looked like it would cause my problem, but kept scrubbing and polishing with Mothers until I could easily chamber all of the rounds. There was also alot of lead build up in the leade so I cleaned that barrel and leade very well too.
I hope to be able to retest this one on Tuesday.
Other than fouling, has anyone else experienced chambers that tight on their SS?
Bore and chambers were dirty as if not cleaned after the last range trip.
I figured, it's a Ruger .22, what could go wrong?
I promised myself I was going to do some shooting today, so I grabbed my new six gun and headed out the back door.
I opened the loading gate, dropped in the first cartridge, advanced the cylinder, tried to drop in the next cartridge, but no way it was going in without a fight. Next one same, next one drops right in, next one drops in, next one no way.
I mean I had to use enough force to push them in that it hurt my fingers. Before anyone asks, I do have lumberjack hands, not snowflake hands..
Now, after 3 cylinders I could no longer load 2 of the chambers at all, so I put it away and grabbed my 1956 flat gate SS and finished my range time.
Now that there is a smooth operator.
Afterwards I cleaned and polished the chambers of the offending cylinder, thinking maybe someone was firing shorts through it without good cleaning. I saw no signs of a crud ring or anything else that looked like it would cause my problem, but kept scrubbing and polishing with Mothers until I could easily chamber all of the rounds. There was also alot of lead build up in the leade so I cleaned that barrel and leade very well too.
I hope to be able to retest this one on Tuesday.
Other than fouling, has anyone else experienced chambers that tight on their SS?