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Taking apart a Ruger mag

Lone WolfeLone Wolfe Member Posts: 56 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in Ask the Experts
all right gentleman thank you for all the advise on my squirell gun!!!! but now you have made me ask more ????? so how do I take the mag apart? It looks like it is sealed. and once it gets apart how do I wind the spring??

I prob. over lubed it.{gun not mags} with 3n1 have used this oil for long long long time so........ as for my Deer Rifle its a Rem 870 with a rifled barrel, 3in magnums hehehe

it was doing just fine last year and the year before with the same ammo but started this trash after cleaning in hopes of clearing up the jamming prob. thanks again and I'll be here all weekend
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,088 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The procedure for dismantling and reassembling the 10/22 magazine is in the owner's manual.You need toread it before you take it apart.

    Mobuck
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    And stop using 3in1 oil on firearms. Get some real gun oil, or even some surplus weapons oil.
    If you don't have a manual, contact Ruger, they will send you one for free.
    As I remember, you loosen (don't remove, yet) the allen screw. Push in on the allen screw which will push out the hex headed mag core. The core is what the spring is attached to. Once the tension is removed, finish taking the screw out and slide off the end plate. When reassembling pre-load the spring 8-9 flats. You should have the manual handy when you do this. It's been a while since I last did mine, so I'm a little rusty.
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.

    Edited by - Tailgunner1954 on 07/25/2002 20:25:52
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Tailgunner - Maybe your rusty from not using 3in1 erl
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try using some MPro-7 Ultimate Lube. Put some on a q-tip, and wipe on the bearing surfaces. Thats all the oil you need. Unless your going to store the gun, then get a silicon cloth and wipe down the outside. But overoilling is asking for nothing but problems.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • Lone WolfeLone Wolfe Member Posts: 56 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guys thank you for all the info. 3 n 1 is gone and getting some "real" gun oil tommorow after i fix my truck grr!!! but thanks again all this is and will be a big help as i am new to rifles but working at learning all i can from here!!!!

    and hey more info is always incouraged lol
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