Ruger 22/250 American with a loose chamber?

[Lee Whitsel]

A friend from church asked me to load up 22/250 coyote ammo for him, I said no problem. He brought me maybe 175 cases all once fired in his Ruger American. As I was cleaning and starting I found I could hardly get the cases to go into my Redding body die without a huge amount of force and relube it 3 or 4 times for each case to get the first couple threw the die and sized. I never saw this before being that big and over sized from 1 firing. I took his 1 fired cases and tried to chamber them in my Remington and Begara and could not even begin to get them to chamber. Has anyone ever seen this in a Ruger before? it appears the chamber had a very large max sized reamer to be that big for 1 firing. All cases where Hornady factory 50/55 grain vmax ammo.

 

[C.E.Smith043]

Never have seen this before.

On a side note, this is one of the biggest reasons I don't load for anyone. He has no idea what to look for when shooting your reloads.

Much better off to teach him how to do his own reloading and allow him to use your equipment while you mentor him.

Puts the liability on him and also brings another person in to the wonderful world of handholding

 

[Lee Whitsel]

Never have seen this before.

On a side note, this is one of the biggest reasons I don't load for anyone. He has no idea what to look for when shooting your reloads.

Much better off to teach him how to do his own reloading and allow him to use your equipment while you mentor him.

Puts the liability on him and also brings another person in to the wonderful world of handholding

That is just my plan at this point.

 

[Walt Krafft]

Ask Ruger wtf.

 

[Doug Casner]

Had an old shooting buddy that used to say, ruger almost made a good rifle. Doug

 

[243winxb]

175 cases all All cases where Hornady factory 50/55 grain vmax ammo.

Measure fired brass. Compare diameter to SAAMI standards.
Maximum loaded round diameters shown. Brass Problem?

 

[Webster]

That is just my plan at this point.

If he gets injured shooting your reloads he can sue you for damages.

 

[jds holler]

I've run into used brass, and range brass that doesn't even come close to fitting chambers on some of my rifles. Usually if I full size it with cam-over, and fire-form it with one shot, it will be good to go.

With your bud's rifle it sounds like you might want to try a neck sizer die, and see where things go. AND, I'd be showing him how to do his own. I won't go into the logistics of reloading for someone else, but will say that I've got a similar thing going also. jd

 

[RegionRat]

Measure fired brass. Compare diameter to SAAMI standards.
Maximum loaded round diameters shown. Brass Problem?
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+1 Agree with this idea.
If you take it upon yourself to load for anyone else, you should be able to detail inspect their brass, plus your work, and also his rifle for that matter. Loading for a friend or loved one means you must be competent and responsible.

Put the Go-Gage into his chamber and then start adding a layer of tape to see what the shoulder datum shows. Then armed with that chamber inspection, you can inform your friend if his gun has a headspace problem before you start. Punt if it is dangerous.

The next step would be as 243winxb is pointing out to detail inspect that brass since there is no point to the exercise if the diameters or length details are way out of spec. Punt if they are out of spec.

A micrometer can answer if the shoulder junction is way out, or if the body diameters are an indicator of a reject chamber, etc, at which point you punt and advise your friend to seek help from the OEM.

 

[jds holler]

Once again I'm thinking we need Guffey for this problem jd