ruger 10/22 magazines

[wirewelder]

help ruger guys. son got his first rifle today. ruger 10/22. he wants an extended mag for it. we looked at two types ramline and spomethink creek hot lips they were 25 round mags. read vague reviews. anyone have any of these 25 round magazines, and how do they work and what brand is the best. want him to make good purchase and be happy. Some reviews said they were hard to load to capacity. and do they need special loader devices thanx

 

[spalit]

Definitely get the butler creek steel lips over the plastic ones. The ramlines have been known to have feeding problems. I just got a catalog from Natchez, and it seems they now have the 25 round butler creek with steel lips.

You can get a speed loader for around $30 for the butler creeks. I have one and it is a real thumbsaver, particularly when its cold out and you are fumbling around with the small .22 ammo, dropping them all over the place..

Oh, on loading to capacity.. both my 25 rounders needed to be broken in. I found that tapping the mag on th bench after loading to capacity helped

 

[BryanP]

The Butler Creek mags work very well. Most people say to choose the Steel Lips version over the Hot Lips version as the feed lips are steel instead of plastic. However, I have never seen a single case of someone claiming the plastic lips on a Hot Lips mag have failed in some way.

 

[JohnKSa]

I've thrown away every Ramline product I've ever purchased except for one. It's also totally useless, but I kept it to remind me never to buy any more of the garbage they peddle.

 

[Fumbler]

Butler Creek makes the best aftermarket 10/22mags. The steel lips last longer but now seem harder to find.

Something I've noticed about magazines...If you'r going to get a bull barrel with a Bentz chamber then don't waste your money on a high cap mag. The steel and hot lips mags I've had worked well with my factory barrel, but with a match barrel the feed angle is just a little off and it won't feed half the time.

 

[Gifted]

The Butler Creek bananas will have to be broken in. Expect failures to feed. This is the spring, starting out it's sticky, and will not advance the next round far enough to be fed. I was talking about it at the store the other day, and I was told that you can get malfunctions with the high caps if they aren't snug in the well. I haven't had problems with mine, and I'm looking to get another one if the price is right. As for wear, steel vs plastic, go figure. One would think that the plastic is durable enough to compensate, but I've not shot that much yet.

I've heard of a mag that uses a belt to feed the rounds, that's 50 round, and is supposedly the best you can get.

Loaders are available. They're a little tricky, my Butler Creek one works pretty well, and will load the ten rounders(you have to wiggle them in a bit). There's several make out there with the loaders, find one that works best for you.

 

[wally]

I've got several of the "conveyor belt" 50-rnd 10/22 mags. They work great but are a major PITA to load, and are quite expensive to boot.

IMHO go with the Butler Creek Steel Lips mags and their "speed loader" and you'll spend less time loading and more time shooting.

--wally.

 

[hksw]

Never had any problems with the BC Hot Lips mags. The Ramlines I've tried worked OK for the first few magfuls there after performance fell off a cliff. The teardrop treadmill one I tried never worked wel for me and a friend, loading method was unacceptable as the mag has to be partially disassembled.

 

[Fumbler]

The Butler Creek bananas will have to be broken in. Expect failures to feed. This is the spring, starting out it's sticky, and will not advance the next round far enough to be fed. I was talking about it at the store the other day, and I was told that you can get malfunctions with the high caps if they aren't snug in the well. I haven't had problems with mine, and I'm looking to get another one if the price is right. As for wear, steel vs plastic, go figure. One would think that the plastic is durable enough to compensate, but I've not shot that much yet.

In my limited experience the Butler Creek mags have springs that are too strong.
They press the cartridges against the feed lips so tightly that it can cause a missfeed. It loosens up a little and works fine after a few shooting sessions.
I think maybe that's why they're turning out so many hotlips mags, the plastic is smoother and has less friction than the steel lips thus causing fewer feeding issues (at the cost of longterm durability).

 

[foghornl]

My local "Gander Mountain" store had the Butler Creek 'Hot Lips' on sale recently for about $17, soooooo I now have 4 of them. Will be picking up the 'speed loader' for them in the next week or so....It takes a bunch of thumbin' to load up 4 25 rounders....

I have run a copuple of hundred rounds through each one without any problems, but Your Mileage Will Vary.

Maybe Butler Creek has refined the manufacturing process a bit.

 

[jefnvk]

I have a plastic lip Butler Creek I got from WA a while back, works great for me.

 

[rugerman]

I've tried several different extented magazines for my 10/22's and I've always gone back to the factory magazines because I've never had a problem with feeding and they are easier to load than the others. My .02. rugerman

 

[72Rover]

10-22 mags

While ramline mags might not be all that great, their speedy loader device certainly is.

The magazine is locked in place, then a box of rounds is dumped into its 'magazine'. It'll hold two full boxes, which are positioned in channels by their rims. Close the hopper cover and work the plunger. Quick and easy and sure beats the "Ruger thumb" which I get after a long afternoon.

Cheers

 

[Rockstar]

I own three "Hot Lips" 25-rd. mags. Recently picked up a Steel Lips from Graf's. Steel over plastic, in this application, is a no-brainer for me. None of my Butler Creek mags required breaking in.

I use the Ramline mag loader with my Butler Creek mags.

I've never had any success with factory Ruger 25-rd. 10-22 mags. As a matter of fact, I've never even seen one.