Failure to feed / eject because mag spring too strong?

[StakeOut]

I bought a new 15-22 at Academy the last time they had the special pricing and $50 gift card deal.With all the discounts it came to $294 + tax

I took it straight from Academt to the range without doing any thing to it.

I shot well over 700 rounds before I got a FTE.

It's now been cleaned and lubed for the 1st time and going to the range this afternoon.

Every brand and type of 22lr I tried in it functioned perfectly,plated and unplated.I have several 1400 rd buckets of Rem Golden Bullets and lots of mini mags so I will be shooting mostly those.

I have a Burris FF3 red dot plus Burris Trippler on it and at 50 yds the 15-22 wipes the 10 ring out of a B-3 target

I bought 5 new 25rd mags from gunmag warehouse before Christmas for $13 each.

 

[tomcatt51]

I bent my extractor towards the center of the bolt, but the problem continued.

You might check that again. The "tip" of the ejector hook should almost touch (as close as you can get it without it touching) the center rib of the bolt. It should be high enough to almost touch the underside of the bolt.

The extractor isn't hard to change and the Volquartsen extractors are available. I have two of them "just in case" but am still using the originals.

 

[racefan]

Glad to hear some purchased 15-22's that worked fine out of the box but there are a lot that don't. Mine was one of them no matter what ammo I tried same results I changed the extractor and now can shoot any ammo and not one FTE so that tells me my extractor was bad. Since the op has this same problem as I had and a lot of others in other forums that there 15-22 does not work correct then he needs to change the extractor.

 

[15-22 Plinker]

Good news. I received my 15-22 back from S&W yesterday (3/10)
Put 250 rounds through it this morning and no problems anymore =D
150 rounds CCI standard velocity. 100 winchester super-x.

In their invoice, they noted that the only change they made was replace the ejector.

Here is a pic of the NEW ejector:
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Here is a pic of the ejector prior to repair:
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The NEW is angled much higher than I would attempt on my own. The old is almost parallel to the curb

It is so high, that it is actually in contact with the bolt:
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They did not change the extractor.
Thanks for all your input.
Hope this helps anyone else out there with similar problems.

 

[Andyk]

After around 20,000 rounds, I started getting stovepipes and ftfs. Thought it was the mags and kept tossing ones I thought were bad aside. I was down to 3 I trusted out of 12. Finally installed a VQ extractor and ran about 700 rounds today through all the "bad" mags. No issues at all. I'm going to install one in my backup even though it has less than 5000 rounds through it and not had any issues. Did have a few duds, think I'll pull the firing pin and check it out.