22/45 Ruger Issues

[harbormaster]

Found a great price on a used one, a friend wanted one and so I sent him out and he bought it. it came with two mags, and won?t cycle either magazine thru ten rounds with out jamming up. Same ammo used in a buckmark he has is of no issue. I feel bummed as i recommended the gun and it?s not working for him. Good enough friend I?ll buy it off him if we can?t remedy.

Looking for any known reasons why the Ruger would be having this issue. It?s clean, not overly lubed, and should be fine.

[SkyHawk]

what type of failure does it have? stovepipe, failure to extract, failure to feed etc

[Bullwinkle]

Photo, too, if you can.

[Paseclipse]

Try different magazines before anything else.

[sirgrumps]

1.) try minimags. If they work, it’s the ammo.
2.) try someone else’s magazines. If that solves your problem, look for Tandemkross YouTube video to tune magazines. You should do this anyway.
3.) if you are stove piping, change the extractor, get a Volquartsen.

Based on it’s age, consider changing the recoil/bolt, firing pin, extractor, and magazine springs anyway.

Failure to eject — ammo or extractor problem
Double feeds are a magazine problem.
If it is a MkIII, remove the LCI.

If none of these work, look at the chamber, it may need to be swaged, if it was dry fired too often without an empty casing or snap cap.

[harbormaster]

It’s a failure to feed from what I can tell. I’m loaning him some other magazines to try and we will see what happens after that. Thanks for the tips.

[G-forceJunkie]

Put a Volquartsen extractor in it, It made mine 99.9% reliable.

[Gat Man]

It?s a failure to feed from what I can tell. I?m loaning him some other magazines to try and we will see what happens after that. Thanks for the tips.

Mark II 22/45 or Mark III 22/45? If Mark III 22/45, remove the LCI and replace with a filler (Tandemkross or Volquartsen).

[smle-man]

If it isn't magazine related, send it back to Ruger. They will cure the problem and clean it for you and, if it wasn't abused, do it for free.

[XL650]

Try different kinds of ammo and see that helps also.

[BrokerB]

this was my experience..never fixed it

22/45 FTE- ramming rounds into feedramp lip on a regular basis

[SoCal Choppas]

My 22/45 MkII was once only reliable on CCI Mini Mags. It is heavily modified too with Industrial hard chromed, action work, ported, extractor. My biggest improvement to reliability was changing the lube to Frog Lube, making sure its a film and not wet. After a couple thousand rounds, it's now pretty reliable with Federal bulk pack.

[Quiet]

An issue, my friends and I have encountered, with the Ruger Mark III and Mark IV series are the magazines need to be modified/polished in order to prevent failure to feed stoppages.
This year, friend with his factory new Ruger Mark IV 22/45 Tactical experienced 3-4 stoppages per magazine. After being sent back to Ruger for repairs, Ruger stated nothing wrong with pistol. After we modified/polished the magazines (see vid below), it fixed the failure to feed stoppages.

Tandemkross Ruger Mark III/IV magazine mod video

[desertrider]

OP, your friends issues sound very similar to the problem I had with my 22/45. Here are a couple of posts I made years ago about the issues I had with my 22/45 and what fixed it.

PROBLEM https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/...22%2F45&page=2

22/45 MKII here.

It is an absolutely awesome paper weight. Probably could be substituted as a wheel chock in a pinch for a Prius or a Honda Fit long as the vehicle isn't parked on a grade. Deep sea sport fishing weight comes to mind also.

Most useless chunk of stainless steel I have in my collection.

Please don't take offense, I'm really not a hater. I'm speaking specifically about my own personal piece, I am jealous as hell of all you guys with reliable 22/45's.

I'm the original owner, bought it new at Turners in San Berdoo in '01 (?). First and every subsequent range trip it reliably stove piped at least one or two rounds with each mag. Tried all kinds of sub, std, and high velocity ammo. Disassembled and cleaned thoroughly. No relief. Took gun back to Turners to compare with other model and ultimately returned to Ruger for inspection/repair. Ruger returned it in a couple weeks with a spent case and said it functioned fine. BS.

Over the last 12 years it has definitely had less than 1k rounds through it, just too frustrating with failures out of every single mag. I kid myself thinking it will one day break-in and actually function like a relaible weapon should.

Can't tell you how many times it's been taken apart, cleaned, lubed and reassembled. Tried different mags. Modified one of the mags (rounded the forward edge of the rear feed lips). Used a variety of different ammo (various velocities, HP, RN, lead, plated, etc).

My 22/45 is an absolute POS. Only reason I still have it is because I can't bring myself to throw away my $200 investment in it, and I couldn't live with myself if I sold it to some poor sap. That kind of bad karma would surely follow me to my grave.

FIX https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/...hlight=22%2F45

Yup, absolutely hated my 22/45 before I installed the Volquartsen extractor, damn thing stovepiped every single mag, usually multiple times per mag.

It still has the occasional stovepipe, but I'm talking once in every ten or so mags now.

The VQ extractor is the one on the right, OEM is on the left.

I think I paid $20-ish for the Volquartsen extractor and it fixed the problem. I've since put thousands of rounds through the gun with only the occassional malfunction. I can't guarantee it'll fix your friends gun, but it worked on mine.