10/22 high capacity mags
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Gator
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Butler Creek Steel Lips are good.
alucard0822
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The butler creek steel lips feed fine, but are a little long, I like the 30rd ram-line mags, probably not quite as reliable as the steel lips, but more compact than the single stack 25rd butlers and fit with my muzzlelite stock, and hardly ever jam with decent ammo
rangerruck
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Tactical Innovations, has the best high caps, period. they are completely field strippable, either a metalic mix or solid Aluminum, and havd fully adjustable heads, for tilt, gimble, left or right cant, etc.
rangerruck
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but they are money. otherwise the steel lips are what you want.
Neo-Luddite
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Steel lips are great (Butler Creek), but remeber that the receiver/trigger housing is aluminum. Fine if your gentle, but a concern over the VERY long haul.
For my money, I can attest that my ramlines I bought for 5 bucks in 1986 are still great. Several 1000's of rounds through each. No, I don't drop them on concrete and I load them up by hand only. The only thing better is that factory rottary mag.
Buy both. My money says, you'll like the Ramlines too.
For my money, I can attest that my ramlines I bought for 5 bucks in 1986 are still great. Several 1000's of rounds through each. No, I don't drop them on concrete and I load them up by hand only. The only thing better is that factory rottary mag.
Buy both. My money says, you'll like the Ramlines too.
http://www.tacticalinc.com/ti25-advanced-composite-steel-magazine-ruger-1022-p-532.html
The Tactical Innovations composite mags are not that much more than the Butler Creek mags and they have a lot going for them.
The Tactical Innovations composite mags are not that much more than the Butler Creek mags and they have a lot going for them.
No_Warning
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I have had horrible experience with anything that has plastic lips. All my future mags will be steel lips.
TimboKhan
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Simply put, if you buy a mag with plastic lips you will be unhappy. I have used lots and lots of magazines over the years, and plastic-lipped magazines never fail to suck. If you really need to get your hi-cap roll on, spend the extra money and get steel lips.
Gator
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Hmmm.....just what is it you are doing with those mags?
The feed lips on the Butler Creek mags are steel, the rest of the mag is plastic, exactly like Ruger factory mags. The only part of your rifle that should touch the feed lips is the bolt....unless I'm doing something wrong
kcmarine
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The problem he was talking about is that if you keep slamming steel- lipped magazines into an aluminum receiver, the harder steel will damage the aluminum. Also, these two metals don't react well, so you shouldn't keep a magazine in at all times.
TimboKhan
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First, I am not sure how one would slam a magazine into a 10/22, but more to the point this issue with the lips and the reciever is bunk. I have had a steel-lipped factory magazine placed near constantly in my 10/22 for well over 25 years and I have had absolutely zero problems. I actually just looked at my old 10/22, and there is no "damage" whatsoever. I think this is just pure bunk.
Why not buy 5 or 6 Ruger factory mags? 10/22's load so fast, and it keeps the gun clean on the bottom for easy transport in the field.
Don't get me wrong everyone likes different things, but they just seem to be in the way out hunting or on the range.
Good luck whatever you decide.
Longboard
and it keeps the gun clean on the bottom for easy transport in the field.Don't get me wrong everyone likes different things, but they just seem to be in the way out hunting or on the range.
Good luck whatever you decide.
Longboard
madmike
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Every item I bought from Ramline was crap and wound up in the trash--magazines, mag release, shroud, all of it. Badly cast, badly toleranced, cheap junk. I recommend not giving them the time of day.
Eagle and Butler Creek work well.
Eagle and Butler Creek work well.
Hemicuda
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I own 4 10-22's, a 77-22, and a 96-22...
I have 12 magazines total... ONE Ramline 50 rounder, (POS, it really only works well in ONE of the guns...) and 11 FACTORY magazines... they fit flush, load quickly, and always wortk...
Do as you like, but the factory ones DO work!
I have 12 magazines total... ONE Ramline 50 rounder, (POS, it really only works well in ONE of the guns...) and 11 FACTORY magazines... they fit flush, load quickly, and always wortk...
Do as you like, but the factory ones DO work!
Dave Markowitz
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The single Butler Creek Hotlips mag I have works flawlessly in my 10/22. Granted, that's a statistical sample of one, but for $14.95 or thereabouts why not give one a try, and see how it works in yours?
craig
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i have 2 of the steel lip 25 rounders.
one didn't work at all until i filed the inside a little. the rounds weren't popping up after the 1st shot, and now it works sometimes.
the second one is a great single shot mag., and i might use it for target practice if i can't get it to work.
this is using rem golden, cci stingers, and cci velocitors.
the standard mag works with everything.
one didn't work at all until i filed the inside a little. the rounds weren't popping up after the 1st shot, and now it works sometimes.
the second one is a great single shot mag., and i might use it for target practice if i can't get it to work.
this is using rem golden, cci stingers, and cci velocitors.
the standard mag works with everything.
dispatch55126
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I'll never you aftermarket again
I bought a steel lips once, a 25 rounder, and after three cycles it was in the trash. The first time cycled fine. I reloaded and had a few misfeeds but it wasn't bad. Reloaded again and after about 10 rounds the bullets inside the magazine stood up and jammed inside the mag. After trying everything (shaking, tapping, coat hanger, harsh language), I finally took a hammer to smash it open and remove the bullets. It was an expensive learning lesson.
I bought a steel lips once, a 25 rounder, and after three cycles it was in the trash. The first time cycled fine. I reloaded and had a few misfeeds but it wasn't bad. Reloaded again and after about 10 rounds the bullets inside the magazine stood up and jammed inside the mag. After trying everything (shaking, tapping, coat hanger, harsh language), I finally took a hammer to smash it open and remove the bullets. It was an expensive learning lesson.
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Neo-Luddite
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Hmmm..just what is it you are doing with those mags?
Gator--
You are very right--the ruger 10 rounder is steel on top. The difference for me (in terms of wear on the rifle) is that I tend to 'pop' the little mag in straight away. Maybe I'm sloppy, but the larger mags get sort of 'rocked' into place a bit. For my purposes, the ramlines are easier on the rifle in that regard.
I also use the feed lips as an aid to oral hygiene if I get somethig caught between my teeth on the firing line--doesn't everybody?!!
Gator--
You are very right--the ruger 10 rounder is steel on top. The difference for me (in terms of wear on the rifle) is that I tend to 'pop' the little mag in straight away. Maybe I'm sloppy, but the larger mags get sort of 'rocked' into place a bit. For my purposes, the ramlines are easier on the rifle in that regard.
I also use the feed lips as an aid to oral hygiene if I get somethig caught between my teeth on the firing line--doesn't everybody?!!
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