My 10/22 blew up today.

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TheDoubleD

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There are 10-22 owners that this has happened to, and those that it will happen to. Do you still have an extractor? It is a very minor fault of the design.

Back in the 80's when I had a Gunsmith shop, I had a box full of spare extractor parts on hand-spring plunger and extractor. When this occurs it will often blow the extractor out also. Check your gun and see if it still has one. I was working at the time in northern California where there is larger ground squirrel population and these guns got a good work out. I won't say I have replaced hundreds, but I have replaced lots, one or two a week when the squirrels were out.

From what I can tell and what others who repaired this gun on a regular basis have shared with me, this occurs while feeding and the cartridge is out side the chamber. We believe the case gets slightly jammed going in, and the extractor hits the rim hard enough to fire cartridge. When it happens the report is different.

It is pretty obvious form the pictures in the first post this cartridge fired outside the chamber.

This is a common occurrence with the 10-22. My late wife's gun would do this several time a gopher season up in Montana. We would fire 100-200 rounds a day each. Chambers and extractors would get fouled and dirty and that seems to be when this would occur. Type of ammo did not matter.

It has never occurred with my 10-22, Just my late wife's gun.
 
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There are 10-22 owners that this has happened to, and those that it will happen to. Do you still have an extractor? It is a very minor fault of the design.

Back in the 80's when I had a Gunsmith shop, I had a box full of spare extractor parts on hand-spring plunger and extractor. When this occurs it will often blow the extractor out also. Check your gun and see if it still has one. I was working at the time in northern California where there is larger ground squirrel population and these guns got a good work out. I won't say I have replaced hundreds, but I have replaced lots, one or two a week when the squirrels were out.

From what I can tell and what others who repaired this gun on a regular basis have shared with me, this occurs while feeding and the cartridge is out side the chamber. We believe the case gets slightly jammed going in, and the extractor hits the rim hard enough to fire cartridge. When it happens the report is different.

It is pretty obvious form the pictures in the first post this cartridge fired outside the chamber.

This is a common occurrence with the 10-22. My late wife's gun would do this several time a gopher season up in Montana. We would fire 100-200 rounds a day each. Chambers and extractors would get fouled and dirty and that seems to be when this would occur. Type of ammo did not matter.

It has never occurred with my 10-22, Just my late wife's gun.

That's interesting. I've never heard of this.
 

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That's interesting. I've never heard of this.

Not overly common. I seldom saw this among the folks shooting a box or two of shells a year. Those who shot these guns a lot, those are the ones who came into my shop. Those guys shot, 100-200 rounds a day, couple of days a week in the spring.

My late wife's 10-22 fired 4000-5000 rounds from March to July. While not common, we would have day or two every year, where she shot 500 rounds in a couple of hours. Usually in Mid June at the peak of the "hatch".

The 10-22 as a varmint gun takes a beating-it is the Timex of .22 rifles.
 

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Took everything apart, cleaned it up, snaked the copper particles out of the chamber/barrel. Everything looks great, extractor is still good too. Ordered some extra 10/22 repair parts the other day, I can’t believe I hadn’t done that already, I do it for the majority of my firearms.
Also found that my front scope ring was stripped out, which is odd. The scope was only held on by the rear. Gotta go get a new set of rings to stick my new scope on! @Beau B got me hooked on these, had to get one for the 10/22, I’ve never been a huge fan of the Nikon p22 that it’s had on since I bought it.
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