Has anyone ever had problems with their Ruger extracting rimless cartridges? I know Ruger chambers the #1 in lots of rimless rounds but yet I have always heard that using rimless cartridges in a single shot is asking for trouble. Thoughts!

JTSR

My Browning model 1885 extracts every 22-250 handload I've put into it. SAMMI working pressure is 65K psi for this cartridge. Never a bit of trouble.

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Originally posted by jsrieck:
Has anyone ever had problems with their Ruger extracting rimless cartridges? I know Ruger chambers the #1 in lots of rimless rounds but yet I have always heard that using rimless cartridges in a single shot is asking for trouble. Thoughts! JTSR

IF your Ruger No. 1 has any difficulty extracting/ejecting rimless cases it is because there's something wrong with YOUR rifle. The Ruger design was developed with the intent of obviating extraction problems when rimless cases are used, and it works exactly as Bill Ruger intended it to! It is pretty faultless in this regard.

I've enjoyed # 1's for some years now and have had zero problems with any of them. No extraction trouble ever........bob

I have a #1 which started life as a 7mm rem. that would occasionally fail to extract, the extractor jumping the rim. It has since been re-barreled to .264 Win. and it still fails to extract on occasion. I have replaced the extractor and spring to no avail. I suspect there may actually be a defect in the machining of the receiver but haven't pursued that. If anyone has experienced the same problem I would like to know the cause/fix. I have several other #1's that have given no problems whatsoever.
C.G.B.

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If anyone has experienced the same problem I would like to know the cause/fix.

I hav a 1B in 7mm Rem. Mag. (very early gun) that did this. I "cured" it by bending the extractor hook in toward the center of the chamber very slightly, and it has never done it since. I too have I have several other #1's chambered for rimless rounds that have given no problems, including: 1V .25/'06; 1A 7x57; 1B .30/'06, and 1H .375 H&H.

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Originally posted by cgbach:
I have a #1 which started life as a 7mm rem. that would occasionally fail to extract, the extractor jumping the rim. It has since been re-barreled to .264 Win. and it still fails to extract on occasion. I have replaced the extractor and spring to no avail. I suspect there may actually be a defect in the machining of the receiver but haven't pursued that. If anyone has experienced the same problem I would like to know the cause/fix. I have several other #1's that have given no problems whatsoever.
C.G.B.

cgbach, I think your problem is not the extractor spring, or machineing of the reciever, but the extractor it's self. The pall is cut wrong, and allows it to slip over the rim of the cartridge case.

I own, and have owned over 30 Ruger No1s chambered for factory rounds from 22-250 to 458 Win Mag, and have owned several that were rebarreled to some of the Nitro Express rounds, and not one failier to extract, or eject has ever happened on one of my rifles, in thousands of rounds fired.

Jsrieck, Don't worry about rimless cartridges in your Ruger No1! It is as reliable as sunrise!

It's true the Ruger was designed to extract rimmed and rimless rounds.

My tastes dictate rimmed rounds for single shots.