Ruger Ejection Problem? Any Help or insight appreciated

[38super]

I just purchased a new Ruger African in 223. At my trip to the range it was only ejecting spent casings about half the time. I disassembled and cleaned the rifle fully as per the manual. Whether I pulled the bolt back with force or lightly I had problems. I looked in the rifle testing it to see if I could duplicate the issue. I was able to duplicate at home with spent casings and loaded ammunition. It appears that the ejector doesn't always line up correctly with the ejector slot in the bolt face. Other times it would throw the brass with force across the room. This was both with pulling the bolt lightly or with force rear. I insured in my testing that I always pulled I the bolt stop. After not ejecting I would push the bolt forward slightly then the the rear and it would eject?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Geno]

38super:

Congrats again on the dandy rifle!

I had a similar issue with a Kimber LPT chambered in .308 Win. In that rifle's case, the ejection blade was sticking, and as such, not fully entering the bolt slot to execute the ejection. I disassembled it, cleaned it and found allll sort of "gunk" in it. Yup, brand new rifle to boot. I lubricated it, and reassembled. Danged if it didn't start to eject spent brass like mini-rockets.

Given that the "gunk" was blue, as was the Lok Tite that Kimber mounted the factory-installed rail, I found that the ejector blade was in near perfect alignment with the receiver screws wherein the Lok Tite would have been placed. It seems gravity had taken its course and pulled the Lok Tite into the bolt's ejector blade. Again, once cleaned and properly lubed, it worked Jim-dandy!

Hopefully your problem source is as-simple. If that is not your rifle's problem, Ruger is extremely good about making things right.

Geno

 

[38super]

I will pull out ejector blade and clean it hopefully it's that simple I hate to send it back in. Maybe tonight if that doesn't work some others will chime in and give other fixes as well

 

[38super]

Back from Ruger

After trying to clean the ejector on my African I sent the rifle back to Ruger. Found out it hadn't had the proper spring installed as well as it needed the slide rails polished. They also honed the chamber and opened up the ejector slot in the bolt face. For and function is now one hundred percent and all test show flawless performance. Hopefully it warms up so that I may shoot some more and see what kin of accuracy I can obtain.