To avoid rim lock lean the magazine back at a 45 degree angle when loading. Use the grips on the side of the magazine to depress the spring and when fully loaded make sure to compress the spring all the way and let the rounds settle. I’ve never had another rim lock since I started doing that.

 

So you lean it back at a 45 with the bullet nose up? Do you depress the spring all the way down and just drop em in there? Then you shake'em a little with the spring pulled all the way down and let off the spring?

 

Using Eley ammo?

When I load I just drop them in and the pull down the follower with the mag leaning back and give it a little shake. Never a rim lock with SK or Lapup ammo.

 

When I load I just drop them in and the pull down the follower with the mag leaning back and give it a little shake. Never a rim lock with SK or Lapua ammo.

THIS

 

Oh and if it happens during a match then just drop the mag and load in your spare.

 

I also use @Max method and never have a rim lock. However, my solution, if an mag problem occurs is to immediately drop the mag and load the spare which I keep in a pouch on my belt. Same for centerfire. In the last centerfire match I shot, a round litterally locked up (Not realizing I had forced 11 in a 10 and it was a mess.) drop the mag, load the spare and keep going. (How I got eleven in it, I’ll never know).

 

Amazing how we can manage to do the near impossible....w/o even trying....and as you said, discovering the feat during a match. O

 

I have had to use the loading tool for 100% reliability. My last trip out, I was mostly loading 5 for groups @ 100. I loaded 10 rounds a few times, I was pushing the top round down completely from the middle before sliding the new one in, it seemed to work better, only had a hang up one time in about 150 rounds.

 

Loading tool has been 100% reliable for you? Was the 1 in 150 without using the tool?

 

So if I do indeed want to continue finish using the rest of the rounds in the current magazine I have loaded that is rim locked, what is the trick to unlock them? Like I said, it seems I try different things and it's a random event to get it to not be locked after multiple attempts. I was hoping someone had a surefire "just do this" and the rimlock is magically corrected every time quickly. I agree use a backup magazine, but when I'm just sitting at a bench on my own clock so to speak, how do I correct the one I am using quickly and efficiently.

 

The trick is to load the magazine correctly and you will never have a rim lock.

If you are unable to load them correctly for some reason, drop the magazine, lean it back, depress the spring by hand and let it release. The rounds will unlock.

 

If you are just sitting there at a bench then just pull back the follower and drop the rounds out of the mag.

Again I will ask what ammo you using? Eley? It’s the only ammo I ever had rimlock with. Never with Lapua or SK.

 

I run Lapua and SK. So you recommend to empty the mag of the bullets still left in there and start fresh?

 

I am learning, I had one hang up in 150 without using the loader tool. I was just ammo testing at the bench. But if I’m doing a timed event like NRL 22 I will definitely use the loading tool. I have done 2 NRL22 matches recently with the Vudoo with no malfunctions.

I only use one magazine. My plastic one, unless I need to do a 12 round stage then I load my 5 round aluminum one. I think some people just have several extras and load them a home. Probably easier than trying to get it right while in the middle of a match. I need to get another plastic one or two.

 

Get this magazine loader and take your time loading. You will experience less rim lock issues. Remember to take your time when using this magazine loader.

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I agree with Rob01 only had rimlock with eley ammo.

 

Learn something new everyday I guess. I have never seen or had this problem before in any of my mags..Do not have a Vudoo though, whatever that is....Interesting. I ssume somehow people loads mags with the rims staggered from the next and it catches the round on top of it?

 

Do not have a Vudoo though, whatever that is....

Seriously? You are in the Vudoo section and don’t know what a Vudoo rifle is? lol

 

I did not know I was in the Vudoo section. It just came up as a new post with a magazine problem, so I read it.. Do not pay attention to particular sections unless I am posting my own thread.. Excuse me for not knowing what a Vudoo is..I would assume that if I asked twenty Firearms people I know..Maybe one would know at best, I still do not know, no pic to see..LOL

 

Well you need to get out more and so do your friends. Lol Vudoo Gun Works is one of the best custom .22 rifles around. Do a google search.