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I rebarreled a Ruger Mini-14 for a guy about a year ago or more with the heavy barrel offered by SHilen. The job went nicely and the client was happy with the accuracy.

He brought it back the other day with a problem with the ejection of the spent cartridges; they discharge almost vertically and hit the underside of the scope.

Anyone heard of this before. Gonna call Ruger here shortly.

Jim


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I had that with my mini-14. Mine was a spring loaded ejector model and the problem was the slow powder I was using resulting in too vigorous cycling of the action. I cured it by fitting a smaller gas port nipple.


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I myself am a fan of small nipples


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Originally posted by Jim Kobe:
I rebarreled a Ruger Mini-14 for a guy about a year ago or more with the heavy barrel offered by SHilen. The job went nicely and the client was happy with the accuracy.

He brought it back the other day with a problem with the ejection of the spent cartridges; they discharge almost vertically and hit the underside of the scope.

Anyone heard of this before. Gonna call Ruger here shortly.

Jim


Well, you can try to slow it down, but from what I've seen with those with bolt nose ejectors, serial number prefix 181-186, I would look at changing the extractors grip angle, and while I'm at it, the "kick off" angle of the spring loaded ejector.


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