i just picked up a brand new J-22 for $100 and it will not eject any casings, they just get jammed in the chamber... they will pull out of the barrel but they won't spit out of the ejection port... i think they r hitting the port and bouncing back in...
Welcome aboard. I see your new. Wish you would have post before you purchased the jennings. As a rule they are not very highly rated among gun owners. Way back in the 70s I purchased a little cheap pkt 22 ,Dang I can't think of the name right off, they were made in NY. anyhow i opened up the port on the bottom a little to get it to quit jamming. Yours won't work at all i'd return it.Try to get your money back. good luck. Then purchase a better gun. the only pkt 22 I've had good luck with id the little Beretta. I have one for yrs and it has never FTF or FTE . --JMJ--
i have been playing with it and it wont eject the federal ammunition i have, but it will eject the CCI shotshell which is not brass casing. i had this same problem with my remington 597 rifle, it wouldnt eject the remington ammo but the federal ammo has never failed.
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When you say playing with it are you talking of shooting it or just sittin at home cycling it. My P22 won't eject when I cycle it but it will eject fine while firing
Make sure you are holding it with a firm grip and keeping your wrist
straight when firing. I had a Jennings 22 years ago that would shoot
fine for me but when a friend of mine shot it, it stovepiped most
every time. I finally figured out he was limp wristing it, no pun
intended, just not keeping his wrist straight and firm. I have seen
more than a few small autos that are affected this way.
Might not have anything to do with yours, but just a thought.
Most all semi-auto 22LR pistols and rifles don't even need an extractor. The pressure from the cartridge "Blows" the slide back by the cartridge case pushing on it. As the slide moves to the rear the case continues pushing, removing itself from the barrel. The ejector is so positioned that it hits the now loose case and deflects it out of the gun in a direction to clear the parts and pieces of the barrel and slide. If the slide blows back then the case extracted from the barrel but it may be that the slide did not move far enough to allow the case to completely leave the barrel. Or it may be that the ejector is not positioned correctly, missed the case, the case re-entered the barrel and the slide closed on it.
Most Jennings guns are "mid-night specials" or "Saturday night specials". That is, they are the classic cast pot metal gun that wears quickly, and fails often. I watched a friends Jennings throw the slide off the back of the frame, nearly hitting him in the face. If the gun is new then take it back, get your money back, save some more, and buy a real gun like the entry level Ruger, Browning Buckmark, or S&W 22A. You'll be way ahead.
i just took the J-22 to the range and shot CCI Stinger through it without 1 jam, this is nickel cased ammo. anyone know where i can buy cheaper nickel cased ammo...$6 for 50 rounds is kindof steep.
I had a Jennings .22 pistol for a day. I took it back to the dealer & he said he was getting so many of them back he was accepting them on warranty.
It fired with no problem till I accidently dry fired it. The firing pin hit the back of the chamber & dimpled it. The shells were then realy sticky going in & out of te chamber & I was getting failures to eject so I grabbed a high-tech tool I just happened to have with me (a phillips screwdriver) & very carefuly Used it as a chamber reamer to make the back end of the chamber round again. The next shot fired but failed to eject & when I got the case out I saw it had swelled just above the rim from the reaming job I did. That pot metal is soft as butter. The gun was ruined & I was lucky the guy took it back.
Lubricate the gun! Jennings do not want to slide without good lube. Never dry fire one. Failure to feed is usally a rough throat and the every nose of the mag follower needs rounding just slightly. A dimpeled chamber face can be smoothed out with care (not a phillips screwdriver). I have reworked several of these little dudes and the owners really like them afterwards. You just have to take off the rough edges and lubricate.
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