New Ruger BX 25 mags for 10/22 | Firearms | Forum

At the local sports club meeting one of the other old guys was telling me he bought 2 of the new 25 round magazines made by Ruger for the 10/22 and other models it will fit.  He is looking to participate in an Apple Seed shoot to be held this summer at the club.

He was telling me how lousy these new magazines performed.  Failure to feed, hard to load, bla bla……..  So I told him he had lots of time before the shoot, give me the rifle and mags and let me perform some magic on them.  He looked at me funny, and I told him "I'm good at this"  ……….. Actually, I'm not that good, but an excuse to tinker with something that needs attention………  Meticulously cleaned the rifle, which it needed badly.  Easy enough to do.

Now the focus of the post.  The magazines.  Out of the box, they were a pain in the neck to use……..  Failure to feed, hard to load, rounds would jam up and not raise to the top.  You name it, they messed it up.

Took them apart and cleaned them.  The plastic injection parts were superbly done.  However inside the cast steel feed head was a mess.  Went to the web site rimfirecenteral.com  There was a bunch of posts on how to clean up the feed head of the magazines.  Mostly good info.  I see what the posters found wrong, and how they fixed it.

However, with a bunch of years as a tool maker, I found you can be a lot less invasive than the posts I read and achieve good results.  At least on these 2 mags, it took less invasive measures.  Basically, it is a case of cleaning up the areas inside the slot where the rounds rise from the mag body, the slot where the rim rides up as it is pushed out of the magazine, on both sides.  And burrs on the very last lip that holds the round in the mag before it pops up out of the mag.

About 20 minutes work on each one, with my set of needle files. Clean, reassemble, and test.  I shot up about 6 mag loads of mixed ammo in each mag without a flaw.  This was a mix of high velocity, standard velocity, match target, bulk boxes, foreign made, and even part of a box of old 22Long ammo I don't know where that came from.  All mixed together in a peanut butter jar.

This was my experience with the mags I got to play with.  There is a lot of info on rimfirecentral.com that can be useful.   And possibly other sites.

Give a shout if you have experience with the new BX 25 mags.
Good luck
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