I have a mid 50's, moderately used, combat masterpiece that exhibits sticky ejection, to the point it takes a rap or two from a plastic handle of a screw driver to eject the spent cases. The chambers are clean and look smooth when examined under magnification. Is this normal with some K22's or does this one need to see a smith?
I have a 17-2 that shoots and ejects anything you feed it, it sure would be nice if the CM did as well.
Thanks

degrease and lightly lube the center pin, ejector rod, and star. make sure nothing is bent.

Hi:
I had the same problem with three Model 34s back in the 1970s that were Birthday Presents for My Childrens.
A retired S&W Gunsmith polished the chambers to cure the problem.
Jimmy

Everything is well lubed and moves freely, obsolutely no binding of any kind.
The chambers are bright and shiny with no roughness to speak of.

I had a 1952 K22 that had the same problem. I cleaned that thing over and over and still had the problem.

What I found that even though it looked clean it wasn't.

Now I use a 6mm brush on the cylinders and a toothbrush under the star. Some of them really need a lot of constant cleaning.

I do the same thing. I chucked a 6mm rifle brush in my cordless drill and scrubbed the chambers absolutely clean. Cases still stick.

I had the same problem you are having in my 17-3 and polishing the chambers made the difference. Also I found that if there was too much gun oil in the chambers the empties would be hard to eject.

Good luck

Troy

I didn't think they needed it, as the chambers were shiny with no visible defects, but. I used a piece of 3/16 dowel and strips of 400 & 600 wet/dry paper and about an hours worth of time to polish the chambers(just enough to knock down the high spots,but not enough to "make them pretty"). Went out to the range today and fired about 100 rounds of several(7) different brands ammo and now the cases eject with light finger pressure. Thanks for the feedback.

What ammo are you using? High Velocity or Hyper Velocity will have a greater pressure and therefore a greater expansion in the chamber which could be causing your sticking. I normally only use Standard Velocity ammo, which is also the most accurate. I have no sticky chambers with Standard Velocity.

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High quality HV ammo. I never had a problem using the same stuff in my 17-2, only had problems with cases sticking in my pre 18. After polishing the chambers all is well and everything I have tried ejects with no effort.
As I mentioned earlier just by looking at the chambers (before polishing) you would have said they looked fine, no rust, pitting or rough spots were evident.

I also had problems ejecting the .22 cases on 2 different model 17's.
I cleaned the cylinder holes with gun scrubber and Hoppes #9 solvent.
Keep the charge holes free of oil !!!
Make sure to clean under the extractor star also.

The best thing I did was try different ammo!!
The Federal bulk packs from Walmart work extremely well,
WW Powerpoints, and CCI minimags are good also.

Don't give up on a good model 17 they are GREAT guns. I love mine.
Good luck...

Texan

I was never aware that oil in the chambers would cause problems. What does it do? I've generally oiled the chambers, thinking of preventing rust. Or is that not an issue? Does this 'no oil' rule apply to all revolvers, or just .22s?

Thank you,
Andy

[back to OP's question]

The oil will turn to carbon & make the brass stick in the chambers..
On blued revolvers I lightly coat a patch with CLP & run down the barrel & cylinder holes before putting them away but dry patch them before shooting..

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