Ruger SR22... Send for service or fix it myself?

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I'm having problems with two Ruger SR22 pistols.

Pistol 1) Maybe 50/50 if the extractor will grab and extract a live round (always extracts spent cases). A few rounds (out of a couple hundred) were a misfeed where the bullet would kinda get jammed into the chamber sideways and the slide would crush the case .

Pistol 2) Same misfeed problem as above but a ton more of them, maybe 15% were misfeeds (again out of many magazines worth, at least a couple hundred rounds).

I'm thinking a bad magazine may have been causing the misfeeds. One magazine was a little tight so you actually had to barely push the rounds in, the other magazines you could drop the rounds in (when holding the follower down).

I just got off the phone with Ruger, they're claiming that it's normal for a firearm to not be able to extract a live round from the chamber. I asked "How are you supposed to make the gun safe during a ceasefire?" and they didn't really have an answer for me. I can actually see that the extractor on both guns kinda disengages from the rim in the last millimeter or two of travel when the slide is closing.

I've already decided I'm sending the magazine in for replacement. I haven't decided if I should send one or both guns in as well to be checked over. I did find mention of fixing the extractor on another forum by filing a couple thousandths off the extractor or the extractor notch in the barrel (I would have to research a little to make sure I filed the correct item by the correct amount).

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[JJ]

Is thins with multiple types/manufacturers of ammo? Or just a single type?

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All different ammo... Blazer standard velocity, Remington high-velocity, and CCI hyper-velocity.

[The Famous Grouse]

Send back to Ruger with a very specific description of the problem. Which shouldn't be difficult for them to reproduce given your description. Let them sort it out.

There is absolutely no way that this is normal functionality. I could speculate on what's happening here and what might be done to fix it, but there's no reason to go there. I'm assuming these are both new pistols, so let Ruger figure it out under warranty.

Grouse

[armedwalleye]

Grouse is on point If you've got the warranty, why not use it?

[Packrat]

both the mags for my SR22 are drop in when the finger slide is used (i do have an occasional ftf). I would call Ruger back, they are one of the few companys left that
understand customer service and stand behind their products.

[FJ540]

I have to put a couple hundred rounds of dirty ammo through mine before it starts misbehaving. I'd send 'em in.

[cs tunes]

I've put thousands through mine with no issues. Several hundred between cleaning on occasion with little fuss. I agree, send it back and see what they say.

[old guy]

It looks to me like the cartridges are not sliding up the bolt face or are catching on a rough extracter, I just looked at my Wifes gun and when I jacked it open it flang the loaded shell 6 feet to the right.
We have only about 350 rds thru this one and it has been perfict so far,we both love this little gun and I have owned 8 or 10 of the older Ruger autos. If I were you I send em back for repair.

John

[gdubya]

I had a very similar feed issue on my SR22 that Ruger repaired, paid shipping both ways, and had less than a week turnaround. They said they replaced the magazine disconnect and takedown lever. I would send it back.

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I have had some other issues with the takedown lever since, although I think aftermarket replacement has actually finally resolved this after last couple of problem free range trips, but the feeding issues were absolutely resolved by Ruger at the factory the first time.

[LePetomane]

I think they are blowing smoke up your butt. Send it back.

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gdubya: I fail to see how replacing the mag disconnect and takedown lever could fix the problem, but if it did fix it then I guess that's why I'm not a gunsmith...

I took them both out to the range again today and tried to isolate which (if any specific) magazine may be causing the problem. First magazine with pistol #2 had the same stoppage (Blazer High Velocity). I marked that magazine with a piece of tape, then the gun proceeded to run flawlessly with 2-5 magazines of each of the following: Remington Subsonic, Remington High Velocity, Blazer High Velocity, Norma Tac-22 Standard Velocity, CCI Stinger Hyper Velocity.

Pistol #1 ran about 80-100 rounds flawlessly, then experienced a stoppage with the non-marked magazine and CCI Stingers... crap, there goes my bad magazine idea and any chance that it was from a bad batch of ammo. I ran another 250-300 rounds through it using the above mentioned mix of ammo, and I re-introduced the slightly-too-tight magazine into the mix...couldn't get another stoppage.

So with the second range report would you still send them (both guns and all four mags) back or would you go for more break-in time before calling them duds?

[gdubya]

gdubya: I fail to see how replacing the mag disconnect and takedown lever could fix the problem, but if it did fix it then I guess that's why I'm not a gunsmith...

Didn't make sense to me either, just what the invoice said. Takedown lever was definitely flaky, the factory replacement also chipped, and I put in an aftermarket one. But fail-to-feeds with bullet nose jammed against barrel above the ramp and dented cases never happened again, so they sure fixed 'something'.

[grimbeaver]

I just sent in the wife's SR22. The gun shop offered to send it in for me so I didn't even talk to Ruger about it. It's been acting up since we got it, shrugged it off at first as needing to be broken in. Took it to the range the other week and shot 270 rounds of 5 different kinds of ammo through it. Of those 270 rounds I had 22 FTL and 3 FTE. Now my failures to load were it flat out never even took the round off the magazine and 50% of the time the hammer didn't get cocked. Remarkably of those 22 failures to load 11 of them were with the 60 rounds of Federal Auto Match. Yep 11 out of 60 rounds didn't load. Heck the CCI Subsonic fired better than the Auto Match. I shot both magazines equally and had equal failures from both. Shop said it sounded like the chamber is too tight. We'll see what I get back from Ruger.

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grimbeaver: Do you have an update?

I got my free mags and ammo from the rebate... one of the free mags is also just a touch too tight. That makes 3 tight mags out of 6. I have a range trip scheduled for Jan 24th with some people from work, we'll see how they perform during that trip. Any more jams and they're going back.