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After shooting poorly with stock 10/22 sights on my All Weather and my Take Down at Appleseed, one of the orange hats had us try a loaner with a cheap Simmons scope on the last AQT. Our scores shot up so I ordered the exact same scope before we left the parking lot. I installed the scope on the All Weather and added Tech Sights to the Take Down.
During the installs I carefully (or so I thought) added some blue Loctite via a toothpick to each screw. The scope was removed after I didn't like the factory rail and crappy rings. I installed an all in one mount/ring set, again using Loctite.
I took some friends out shooting today, using mainly 22s. My son was helping a young shooter with with Take Down 10/22 and brought it to me with the bolt stuck open. I dropped the trigger group and sprayed some cleaner inside the bolt area. I had to smack the handle some to free the bolt. It was dirty from not being cleaned in 700+ rounds so I thought that was the problem. I oiled it and they shot 10 rounds ok.
A few minutes later they were back with the all weather 10/22 which would not chamber a round. It looked like it was getting stuck 1/2 way. While I was working on it without any luck they brought the Take Down back over with the exact same problem. A couple old timers were in the area so I asked them to take a look. They seemed shocked my plinker 22s were not spotless and said it was all a cleaning issue. I wondered out loud why two different guns with different round counts would have the exact same failure on the same outing when neither had ever failed even when dirtier. All they could tell me was to clean them.
Arriving home we went to work field striping, not even stopping for dinner. As soon as the bolt was out I knew the problem. I could see traces of loctite on the bolt. The firing pin was even gummed up.
We deep cleaned them and removed every trace of loctite. They load flawlessly once more and we learned a valuable lesson. Well two lessons if you count reading the manual, which says not to loctite or something like that.
In the future if I need to reapply loctite I'll remove the bolt.
During the installs I carefully (or so I thought) added some blue Loctite via a toothpick to each screw. The scope was removed after I didn't like the factory rail and crappy rings. I installed an all in one mount/ring set, again using Loctite.
I took some friends out shooting today, using mainly 22s. My son was helping a young shooter with with Take Down 10/22 and brought it to me with the bolt stuck open. I dropped the trigger group and sprayed some cleaner inside the bolt area. I had to smack the handle some to free the bolt. It was dirty from not being cleaned in 700+ rounds so I thought that was the problem. I oiled it and they shot 10 rounds ok.
A few minutes later they were back with the all weather 10/22 which would not chamber a round. It looked like it was getting stuck 1/2 way. While I was working on it without any luck they brought the Take Down back over with the exact same problem. A couple old timers were in the area so I asked them to take a look. They seemed shocked my plinker 22s were not spotless and said it was all a cleaning issue. I wondered out loud why two different guns with different round counts would have the exact same failure on the same outing when neither had ever failed even when dirtier. All they could tell me was to clean them.
Arriving home we went to work field striping, not even stopping for dinner. As soon as the bolt was out I knew the problem. I could see traces of loctite on the bolt. The firing pin was even gummed up.
We deep cleaned them and removed every trace of loctite. They load flawlessly once more and we learned a valuable lesson. Well two lessons if you count reading the manual, which says not to loctite or something like that.
In the future if I need to reapply loctite I'll remove the bolt.
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