Ruger SR22 and LCR-22
Updated: January 9th, 2013
Today I shot the Ruger SR-22 and LCR-22. The SR-22 jammed once (unsure if the fault was the pistol, magazine or ammo). The LCR-22 worked as expected.
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Today i just purchased a new ruger sr-22, and took it to the range with some cheap bulk federal ammo. The first clip went very smooth just as it should, the second clip however jammed (FTF), almost every round i had to pull back the slide release the clip and dump the round. I tried several more clips with the same result, so when I got home I field stripped it and game it a deep clean, then lubed the gun, racked the slide and ran a clip through by manually working the slide and it still would jam almost every round. After taking a closer look the malfunction wasnt in the gun its in the clip, For one there wasnt enough spring tension, so i took the clip apart and stretched it a little more, second i noticed once the magazine was full it almost went to a double stack configuration the last four or so bullets, what was happening is, as the slide went to chamber the next round the double stack would tweak the bullet sideways resulting in a FTF. The solution, I took a pair of needle nose and squose the mouth of the magazine so the tolerance between it and the bullet was smaller, forcing the bullet straight with the feed ramp. Long story story short the mouth of the magazine is way to big allowing for too much slop as the bullet gets fed, squeeze it just a little and you should be good to go. Hope this helps
i bought this gun new,with the sights centered on the gun it was shooting high and left a foot or more and 70% of the time after the first shot it would ftf,rack it back manually then you could shoot the rest of the magazine,i sent it in to ruger and they did nothing but sight it in and told me there was nothing wrong with it,the ftf is still there and the rear sight is screwed all the way down and so far to the right the the frame the sight blade is in is patially in the sight window and the white dot is one third covered by the sight frame,ruger sighted it in at 10 yards at 25 it is still high and left with no sight adjustment left,ruger says this falls within their standards,rugers standards must be set pretty low,they gave me a free rag though,i'm gonna dump this piece of crap and use the free rag to clean my smith&wessons.