UpperAtmosphere
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I've been shooting in a rimfire league with my father. He and I normally shoot Ruger Mark IIs that have been heavily tricked out.
Two weeks ago, my Ruger started giving me monster problems - failure to feed, bullets failing to go where I instruct them to go, the bolt eaaaaasing forward instead of snapping forward when I hit the release. Cost me a lot of bonus points I should have gotten.
I figured it was dirty (even though I clean it religiously between matches) and the ammo was crap, so we took it out for practice with some better ammo and it worked flawlessly - fed, accuracy was much improved, bolt slid forward with authority. Cleaned it again, lubed, let's go shoot.
Last week, it jammed a variety of times - not quite as bad as the week before, but I had informed the Ruger that this was the last chance it had, so after last week's league night I started practicing with my CZ Shadow with its Kadet upper. Swapped out hammer springs to make it more reliable, take it out for practice a few days, happy happy happy.
Last night was league, and I take the Kadet. I get off two rounds (we shoot in strings of five) and then it goes click instead of bang. Pull trigger again, figuring light strike - still click. Range officer inspects it, and the gun didn't pull the third round off the magazine. I reseat, pull the slide back, chambers a round. Pull trigger, gun goes bang. Pull trigger, gun goes click. Same deal - it didn't pull the next round from the magazine. They're all brand-new magazines, I had the two that came with the Kadet and then ordered two more.
"You have a backup gun you can use?"
Yeah, the Ruger.
Which proceeds to run flawlessly for the remainder of the match.
So I say:
My Ruger says:
The Kadet says:
Two weeks ago, my Ruger started giving me monster problems - failure to feed, bullets failing to go where I instruct them to go, the bolt eaaaaasing forward instead of snapping forward when I hit the release. Cost me a lot of bonus points I should have gotten.
I figured it was dirty (even though I clean it religiously between matches) and the ammo was crap, so we took it out for practice with some better ammo and it worked flawlessly - fed, accuracy was much improved, bolt slid forward with authority. Cleaned it again, lubed, let's go shoot.
Last week, it jammed a variety of times - not quite as bad as the week before, but I had informed the Ruger that this was the last chance it had, so after last week's league night I started practicing with my CZ Shadow with its Kadet upper. Swapped out hammer springs to make it more reliable, take it out for practice a few days, happy happy happy.
Last night was league, and I take the Kadet. I get off two rounds (we shoot in strings of five) and then it goes click instead of bang. Pull trigger again, figuring light strike - still click. Range officer inspects it, and the gun didn't pull the third round off the magazine. I reseat, pull the slide back, chambers a round. Pull trigger, gun goes bang. Pull trigger, gun goes click. Same deal - it didn't pull the next round from the magazine. They're all brand-new magazines, I had the two that came with the Kadet and then ordered two more.
"You have a backup gun you can use?"
Yeah, the Ruger.
Which proceeds to run flawlessly for the remainder of the match.
So I say:
My Ruger says:
The Kadet says: