A friend has a Ruger SR22P that will not extract a round in the chamber manually. It works fine when the gun is fired. In looking at it the extractor is cammed out when the bolt is closed. There is no extractor cut in the chamber. Does anyone know if this is normal on this pistol or is it a mfg. problem? Roger
Looks like this: http://twintechtactical.com/twin-tech-original-long-3-1-2-sr22-threaded-barrel/. The cut doesn’t go into the chamber (its rimfire), just the outside of the barrel.
It’s not unusual for a blow-back 22 to not extract a fired casing manually since part of the extraction of a case is the force of the gas pushing the spent case back against the breech face to cycle the gun. But it should manually extract live, unfired ammunition where the case hasn’t been expanded against the chamber walls. If the gun is new, call Ruger. If it’s been shot a lot and not cleaned, simple carbon buildup on the chamber can make a round stick and cleaning and polishing the chamber should cure that. I’m not 100% sure what you mean by the extractor being cammed out, on my SR22P it cams out some when it’s over the case rim but there’s not a huge distance that it moves, maybe .020 or so.
Pull the barrel and drop a live round into the chamber. It should drop in smoothly and seat to the rim. Turn the barrel muzzle up and the round should drop out. If it doesn’t, suspect the chamber needs a good cleaning and possibly polishing. If it works when fired, the extractor is doing it’s job, which really is just holding the case on the face of the bolt once it’s not supported by the chamber. You might look at the extractor spring and make sure the extractor face isn’t worn or negative. Jeff
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Fit the extractor nose and adjust the extractor relief in the barrel as needed so the extractor hook can get in front of the case rim and grab it. Don’t remove material from the chamber area. Ken
