Ruger Mini-30 issues with steel cased ammo and/or hard primers

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What does the rifle have a hard time with? Is it the actual steel cases or that much of the steel cased ammo has hard primers?

Why would my beloved Ruger build the rifle this way? Why not build it to handle any ammo?

Is there a fix for this? I different part that can be installed?
 
Most of the complaints that I've seen are of broken firing pins. Suspected cause is berdan primed cases, steel firing pin hits primer which is crushed on steel pin in case. Most of the people complaining of the firing pin issue say that the steel on steel is weakening the firing pin. Unfortunately there seems to be no solution to the firing pin issue, it needs to be fitted to the bolt so Ruger will not sell firing pins, if you break one you have to send the rifle in for repair or at least the bolt. If the reports of the berdan primed steel cases causing the firing pin issue are correct, I would think an extra power hammer spring might compound the problem. In any event I'm not sure how common the firing pin issue really is (thousand of Mini owners have had no issues I would think) and I don't know if I would concern myself with the issue.

Stu
 
if your shooting that junk with the steel cases,then it;s your own fault.

The steel case's do not srink back down to size like the brass does..

I met a fellow at the range a few years back and he was all excited about some cheap ammo he got on line for his 760 in 30-06...I tried to warn him but he failed to listen..First shot was ok and he said see,nothing wrong with it..But on the second shot....He couldn't get the action open...Mine turn now..

Told you so....I will not say what he said,but he was pretty upset...lol lol
Cheap ammo can be a pain in the ass....John:eek:
 
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I've shot a good bit of assorrted steel case through my early model...no problems. But......now that I have an AK, the mini-30 gets brass cases.

Big fan of the mini-30 BTW.....sort of a modern .30 cal saddle gun, but semi. Not my line...but I like it.
 
If it didn't have this problem with the cheap ammo I'd have bought it.

If this fix is a good/lasting one, then I may later on down the road.
 
Are ruger 30's still having failures to fire? I thought they solved this crap years ago.

russian 7.62x39mm have reccessed primers and the ruger firing pin is too short. That's the problem.
 
IF this is actually a problem it is a RUGER problem. If anyone designs and sells a semi auto carbine in 7.62-39 caliber you have to know that at least half or more of the people buying your gun will use steel case berdan primed ammo.

If the gun you designed will not function with this ammo you screwed up.

The Ruger Mini 30 is not a match grade target rifle. It is a carbine that people buy to plink and hunt with and to keep around for just a working class all around gun.

It is going to be fed whatever ammo people find that is accurate enough for the purpose and is cheap.

Ruger should have known this and did what was necessary to make the gun work with steel case ammo.
 
As Ruger was too arrogant/indifferent to the marketplace to sell "normal capacity" magazines for the Mini 14 (after the '08 election) to civilians and for the Mini 30 about two years ago, none of this should surprise us.

When I bought my ('90) Mini 14 in early '08, it had the 20-rd. magazine only because the rifle had been equipped with it, still having the silver sticker for "State of KY".
At that time Ruger had supposedly still not built any for the civilian market.

Ruger executives made the bold decision to finally become competitive (in terms of just mags...;)) only
After the presidential election-long after many formerly loyal Ruger customers had permanently switched to the AR, PTR-91 (or the Century product...), M-1A, FAL, AK clones etc.
 
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The good news on this issue is if you break a firing pin, you box up the bolt or the rifle and ship it back to Ruger for a replacement pin. Not sure what their turn around time is on the repair though. Again, I have no idea how common of a problem this issue really is.

Stu
 
The good news on this issue is if you break a firing pin, you box up the bolt or the rifle and ship it back to Ruger for a replacement pin. Not sure what their turn around time is on the repair though. Again, I have no idea how common of a problem this issue really is.
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Why can't I just buy a pin from ruger. If ruger requires you to ship crap to them when you can do the damn job by yourself, ruger is trash.
 
It is against the law to sell chinese ammo in the USA.


they will not allow the people to access to cheap ammo these fricken control evil control freaks.
 
Hard primers, I had the same issue with mine. Took it back to where I bought it, they put a mag of WW box and zipped off the mag like it was an automatic, no problems with the right ammo.

Jim
 
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