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I've had a number of troubles with my mini that is just making my mini14 experience a bit strained. I've already sent it to Ruger for repair, and they fixed the more major problem of "failure to extract" fired casings from the chamber.
Now, unless I use high powered brass ammo, about every 10th round will jam between the bolt face and the receiver, lengthwise. Sometimes I get a stovepipe thrown in there too. This happens most consistently with steel Tula, however it's happened with the nice brass too.
Also, the other day I let my buddy shoot it while I was at the range and it was doing the lengthwise casing jam thingy about every other round. I don't know if this happened while he was trying to clear it or if it did it itself, but the oprod separated from the slide and was riding along the side of the receiver outside the groove. I slipped it right back into the notch, but it nevertheless unnerved me. There's no damage to the oprod spur that rides in the groove so I'm guessing this is somewhat normal?
I haven't cleaned it in about 300 rounds and it is a bit on the dirty side, But I thought minis were was supposed to keep blasting away through the junk. I'm not particularly keen on sending it back to Ruger again, seeing as they've already "repaired" it before, but I'll go for that option if I have to.
Now, unless I use high powered brass ammo, about every 10th round will jam between the bolt face and the receiver, lengthwise. Sometimes I get a stovepipe thrown in there too. This happens most consistently with steel Tula, however it's happened with the nice brass too.
Also, the other day I let my buddy shoot it while I was at the range and it was doing the lengthwise casing jam thingy about every other round. I don't know if this happened while he was trying to clear it or if it did it itself, but the oprod separated from the slide and was riding along the side of the receiver outside the groove. I slipped it right back into the notch, but it nevertheless unnerved me. There's no damage to the oprod spur that rides in the groove so I'm guessing this is somewhat normal?
I haven't cleaned it in about 300 rounds and it is a bit on the dirty side, But I thought minis were was supposed to keep blasting away through the junk. I'm not particularly keen on sending it back to Ruger again, seeing as they've already "repaired" it before, but I'll go for that option if I have to.