ruger mkiii ejection issues

[RAMCHARGER]

tried out my new mkIII pistol at burro cyn. very accurate and fun. had a lot of failer to ejects. the empty shell would stay in the receiver when a new round would start to chamber. I would have to pull back the bolt a little the tilt shake the empty shell out. I was using remington champion bulk and minimags.

[SoCal Bob]

I replaced my 22/45 & 10-22 extractors with Volquartsen extractors, as a pre-emotive strike, and have not had any issues. Just a note, if you go this route you keep the Mark's factory extractor spring and don't use the one supplied by VQ.

[G-forceJunkie]

Get the volquartsen extractor, it will solve this.

[riftol]

tried out my new mkIII pistol at burro cyn. very accurate and fun. had a lot of failer to ejects. the empty shell would stay in the receiver when a new round would start to chamber. I would have to pull back the bolt a little the tilt shake the empty shell out. I was using remington champion bulk and minimags.

If the forward surface of the rim is slightly curved, an ammo defect, the extractor will slide off of it and leave the empty case chambered.

I had failure to extract from my Savage .22 LR bolt action; it was caused by this slight curvature of the rim's forward surface.

The ammo was:

FEDERAL

550 Rounds

- Value Pack -

[shakyshoot]

Another vote for the Volquartsen extractor. I had about 1 out of 100 FTE early on with my 22/45. After spending the $11.99 on the VQ, I went 1500 straight rounds without an issue. Have you taken the gun down and cleaned it? I know there tends to be a lot of fear associated with that subject, but Ruger is known for using a lot of heavy packing grease. The marks run best relatively dry, with only the slightest film of oil.

[RAMCHARGER]

I did clean it before I took it out. Maybe it was "overlubed"? While it wasnt "AR WET" it wasnt exactly dry either.
I mostly used the Fed Champion but I also used Mini mags and some Winchester and aguila that I had in smaller amounts. They had the same issues. They all functioned perfect on my MP5. I'll try running it Almost dry and see what happens before I send it to Ruger.
Note it was accurate. I was bouncing a piece of wood (Fist sized chunk of bowling pin gut) all over the pistol range burm at Burro

[SB1964]

I've only shot my mk111 once, installed a VQ extractor before I did. The factory part looked poor anyway & I normally use the stock spring. I tried 4 types of ammo & it ate all of it easily, maybe 250 rds. May hit some BLM in an hour or so, it's a fun pistol!

Don't send it to Ruger, big mistake. Spend 12$ & 5 mins & it should run flawless. In before "it's a matter of principle"

[steel30]

Don't send it to Ruger, big mistake. Spend 12$ & 5 mins & it should run flawless. In before "it's a matter of principle"

Ruger has been excellent on the two firearms I had to send in, if something is wrong with your firearm they will take care of it with quick turn around. In both cases I paid for partial shipping and had gun back within 10 days. Not saying you need to send it in, just saying they are top notch when it comes to repairing their firearms. They WILL remove any 'out of compliance' parts and install their factory parts though...LCI plug, Mag disconnect bushing...lol.

[chansen49]

DO NOT send to Ruger, Mine has been to back 3 times and they have never fixed the issue. Same as OP.. And the messed the trigger up.. FYI.. DONT send it to Ruger.

[SB1964]

Volquartsens worse extractor is better than Rugers best. One glance at the business end of extractor on my "new" 22/45 & I knew better, factory extractor looked terrible. I think I run 4 maybe 5 VQ extractors, all flawless. All Ruger will do is replace it with another poor quality part.

[RAMCHARGER]

I ordered the VQ extractor from Brownels. Lets see how it works. Gives me time to get more ammo...

[NIKSD]

Ruger has been excellent on the two firearms I had to send in, if something is wrong with your firearm they will take care of it with quick turn around. In both cases I paid for partial shipping and had gun back within 10 days. Not saying you need to send it in, just saying they are top notch when it comes to repairing their firearms. They WILL remove any 'out of compliance' parts and install their factory parts though...LCI plug, Mag disconnect bushing...lol.

Exactly the opposite experience with Ruger. Brand new /never fired, trigger locked after few dry-fires/ faulty gun. Send back for repairs. Ruger lost my gun. Took 5 months and many calls until they sent me a new one. Had to pay DROS fee again. So disgusted with them, did not even called them to try to get my DROS fees back.

Try to solve the problem yourself.

[71MUSTY]

I use Volquartsens upgrades on all my MK's. I have a sweet lil MKII Bull barrel that shoots bullseye's all day long thanks to Volquartsens

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Mine had the same issue. I took the mags apart and scrubbed the inside with a bronze bore brush. Took off some of the paint on the inside of the mag. Degreased and removed all oil and reassembled them dry and left them dry. It fixed the fte for mine.

[RAMCHARGER]

I put an empty case in the chamber and closed the bolt and pulled the bolt back. The extractor pulls the empty shell until it clears the chamber then empty shell just falls off between the mag and the receiver wall. It wont hold the shell against the bolt face. Guess it works sometimes when actually shooting is because the shell is the one actually pushing the bolt upen rather than the bolt pulling the shell.
I had a MKII back in the late 80s and it started having similar issues but still shot ok most of the time. I then noticed the ejector was missing