D.B. Cooper
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So I bought a POS 10/22 for my son in June. He sot the local youth league with it, and I just started the adult rifle/pistol league with it. It has less than two bricks of ammo through it.
In last week's league shoot, it started locking up. It would fire, fire, fire, not fire. Cycle the bolt, fire, not fire, cycle again, fire, not fire. Finally, the thing jammed up so bad, I couldn't get the mag in or out. The RO called it a safety issue about 10 seconds before I was going to say it myself, and that was that.
Stripped the gun, found nothing obviously wrong. Cleaned the heck out of it and put a drop of CLP in the receiver anywhere metal slides on metal. Now the darn thing won't function at all.
I pull the bolt back and it locks back and won't release. Does it every single time. The only way to get the bolt to release is to drop the magazine, and, using my index finger, press on a little metal tab that rides just next to the hammer. The gun is, essentially, totally inoperative/unuseable.
Here is my dilemma: It's beyond my skill set. (Most gunsmithing is.) An FFL is going to charge me at least $25 to ship it and $25 to receive it plus the shipping charges to send it back to Ruger for repair. (So...probably about $100 total.) If I take it to a gunsmith to repair, he's going to charge me $80/hr. The POS only cost $250. I'm seriously wondering if I should throw anymore money into this gun. Should I just cut my losses at the purchase price + the cost of the tek sights?
In last week's league shoot, it started locking up. It would fire, fire, fire, not fire. Cycle the bolt, fire, not fire, cycle again, fire, not fire. Finally, the thing jammed up so bad, I couldn't get the mag in or out. The RO called it a safety issue about 10 seconds before I was going to say it myself, and that was that.
Stripped the gun, found nothing obviously wrong. Cleaned the heck out of it and put a drop of CLP in the receiver anywhere metal slides on metal. Now the darn thing won't function at all.
I pull the bolt back and it locks back and won't release. Does it every single time. The only way to get the bolt to release is to drop the magazine, and, using my index finger, press on a little metal tab that rides just next to the hammer. The gun is, essentially, totally inoperative/unuseable.
Here is my dilemma: It's beyond my skill set. (Most gunsmithing is.) An FFL is going to charge me at least $25 to ship it and $25 to receive it plus the shipping charges to send it back to Ruger for repair. (So...probably about $100 total.) If I take it to a gunsmith to repair, he's going to charge me $80/hr. The POS only cost $250. I'm seriously wondering if I should throw anymore money into this gun. Should I just cut my losses at the purchase price + the cost of the tek sights?