Make sure the chambers are clean - I bring a wire brush to the range and sweep the chambers out every once in a while in addition to cleaning at home. If that doesn't help, you can try polishing them with fine sandpaper wrapped around a rod. That worked for me on a Charter Pathfinder.

 

Good Idea Many Thanks!

 

Before you try sandpaper you might want to try some polishing compound. Something like Mothers Mag Wheel Polish it is abrasive but pretty mild. If that doesn't do it then you could go to sandpaper. I would use a fine grit like 600 to smooth things out. If you wrap it around a brass brush or a rod you could chuck it in a drill and slowly rotate it back and forth in the individual chambers. Hopefully that will fix your problem.

 

Make sure the chambers are smoooooth ... any roughness and the fired case will want to grip the sides and be hard to extract ... this is one of those finishing / polishing operations that sometimes get short shifted , so look closely .
Gary

 

If this is the first time the revolver has been fired, I would wager that the chambers were not cleaned prior to firing. Before you get wild and crazy polishing the chambers, clean out the chambers thoroughly. New firearms are not shipped ready to shoot. They are shipped coated in a preservative, not a lube. The purpose of the preservative is to ensure that the firearm is protected from moisture, condensation, and rust when warehoused for an unknown length of time in a potentially non-temperature controlled atmosphere. This preservative can best be described as “sticky,” especially when exposed to the heat and pressure of having a cartridge fired in a chamber coated with that preservative. So clean it well, and if it is still sticky, then consider polishing the chambers.

 

Thank you !

 

"sandpaper" should not be the first choice. A thorough cleaning with common cleaning tools should be the first step. If that fails then polishing. And a finishing compound would be a start. Even 1500 grit is removing material, thats not what you want to do.

 

sandpaper would not be my first choice for polishing a chamber.

 

I have two .22 mags. An LCR and a 3" LCRx. Both are fickle to what ammunition they ingest. The LCR was so bad I had to send it back to Ruger where they ended up installing a new cylinder in it. The LCRx will only handle CCI ammo and doesn't care for anything else.

I agree with the suggestion of using Mother's Mag polish in the cylinders to smooth things up. I'd chuck it up in a low RPM drill rather than a Dremel.

Good Luck!

 

I have two .22 mags. An LCR and a 3" LCRx. Both are fickle to what ammunition they ingest. The LCR was so bad I had to send it back to Ruger where they ended up installing a new cylinder in it. The LCRx will only handle CCI ammo and doesn't care for anything else.

I agree with the suggestion of using Mother's Mag polish in the cylinders to smooth things up. I'd chuck it up in a low RPM drill rather than a Dremel.

Good Luck!

I also have a finicky LCRX that only likes CCI ammo... anything else and it has issues with closing the cylinder.

 

I have an LCR 22 LR and have had similar issues with certain types of ammunition. CCI MiniMags work flawlessly. Blazer not as well but they do extract but with more effort/force applied.

The worst is NORMA TAC 22. These guys only come out if I push each one out individually.

I tried to use NORMA TAC 22 in my SR22 which pretty much runs any type of round nose 22 LR. It was one and done. The first round failed to eject. The casing was jammed in the chamber tight and had to be pushed out by hand.

My thoughts are the casings are not all created equal and some expand more than others when fired.

I haven't tried the NORMA TAC 22 in a rifle. It would be nice if they ejected properly from a rifle. I have 350 rounds left and hand extraction is a bummer.

 

I have an LCR 22 LR and have had similar issues with certain types of ammunition. CCI MiniMags work flawlessly. Blazer not as well but they do extract but with more effort/force applied.

The worst is NORMA TAC 22. These guys only come out if I push each one out individually.

I tried to use NORMA TAC 22 in my SR22 which pretty much runs any type of round nose 22 LR. It was one and done. The first round failed to eject. The casing was jammed in the chamber tight and had to be pushed out by hand.

My thoughts are the casings are not all created equal and some expand more than others when fired.

I haven't tried the NORMA TAC 22 in a rifle. It would be nice if they ejected properly from a rifle. I have 350 rounds left and hand extraction is a bummer.

Thank you ! I used by new gun cleaning kit which has wire brushes and not nylon and it seemed to help today, I actually just bought ssome ,22 Norma LR today ive never used it for my lcp2 .22 LR im curious how it feeds.Many thanks !

 

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Hi Everyone I have a LCRX 3 inch in .22 Mag. and have had this gun for over a year and this is the first time I went to the range and had issues extracting spent shells from the cylinder. I was using cci & Aguila ammo. Has anyone got any suggestions thanks !

.22 mag seems to have very thin cases. Many hand guns have trouble with the cases splitting. I think the round seems to work better in rifles. Just my opinion.

 

Thank you I totally agree. !

 

Your very first thing to try is to clean the chamber very, very well, with a bronze brush (although I never use them the bore of any of my firearms, chemicals, patches & nylon brushes only). If extraction still proves to be a problem, then you can resort to using polishing compound (NOT rubbing compound). JB bore cleaner would work, as well as Mothers, Flitz and several others. I had a lot of trouble with my Ruger convertible Mag cylinder, until I polished up the chambers, now spent cartridges extract like they are supposed to.
Cheers,
crkckr

 

Great thank you !

 

did you notice if the shells were tight or sticking before you fired them? would have been a flag that the chambers were tight and needed polishing before firing.

 

Hi Thanks no the gun had just been cleaned and ive already put over 200 rounds through it and never had an issue.I was firing CCi Ammo at the time no sticking at all. SInce then I have used a firm cleaning correct side brush on the cylinder barrel and I havent had an issue, thank you for your reply

 

When

I first shot mine I hade the same problem. I have a 3 inch barrel model. Ruger wil not ship the cylinder screw to remove the cylinder. I found it was somwhat difficult to clean the cylinder chambers and the ejection "star" conected to the ejection rod.t.

I solved the problem by using Hoppes #9 in the chambers and the "ejection star". I liberally swabbed both with Hoppes and soak it for 10 or so minutes. Then cleaned the chambers, and paid specially attention to the ejection start. Swabbed the start again and let soak again for 10 minutes. The performed second cleaning.

Shot the gun at the range rapid fire 120 rounds. Not a problem. Also you might stop a while at the range and let the gun cool off. I find that helps as well.