Ejection woes

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GP100man

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Fellers ,I bought a 22 revolver & it shoots good just 1 problem ,ya can`t hardly eject the spent cases !!

Chambers are ruff ,I tried polishing with Flitz & a patch wrapped around a brush but made very little head way .

Tried making a flapper wheel , but can`t get the paper to stay.

Pointers & suggestions welcomed on polishing those little chambers welcomed.

GP
 
May not be your bucket of woes, but here's a line of thought. Could it be that the firearm was dry-fired a bit too much in a previous life? It could be possible that the roughness of the cylinder holes is not the issue. If it was dry-fired too much, the striking firing pin on the edge of the cylinder holes has created a hump, drag point, pointy spot burr, (whatever you want to call it). Look up a tool called a "Chamber Iron" on Brownell's site, study up on it's need and use, and think about whether that will be the cure.

As brass goes, when a ctg is fired, the case will expand and retract, so your chambers would have to be way large for the brass not to retract enough to permit easy extraction. Now if you had a burr as I described above- that can put a serious whoa on extraction.

Just a thought.
 
I've had a couple of 22's like that, a Dan Wesson, and a Smith & Wesson. The problem is usually dirty chambers. I had to just clean the snot out of them. A brass brush, some hoppes, and LOTS of patches cleaned them up enough to go from having to tap them out with a pocket knife, to just giving them a sharp rap with my hand to kick the empties out.

For extreamly bad cases you may need to put the brass brush in a variable speed drill and CAREFULLY run it through the chambers. Soak 'em down with Hoppes (or some other solvent) and let them set for a little while first.
 
Thanks for the encouragement fellers . I took a 243 brush & Flitz & cleaned all the crude out then wrapped a patch around a22 brush & polished just the chambers a bit .
Looks smoother, now the little cartridges fall in .

It`s a Taraus 9 shot tracker, fairly new, no dry fire dings & shoots where I point it .

I had the chance to shoot a cyl full before purchasing & while tite those did eject ok

Have`nt tried it since the clean/polishing but it`s gotta be better!

Kinda heavy for a 22lr revolver though.
 
some .22LR ammo just does that anyway. With my new LCR 22, Velocitor and Federal ammo are hard to extract.
Maybe try different ammo and see which are best.
 
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