So I was looking at a few guns this past weekend and ended up buying a mossberg 500 12gauge field/security combo and a used 10/22 Ruger. After doing the paperwork I realized I spent more time holding the shotgun than the .22 since I was getting rushed by my fiancé to get to a birthday party. After the party I stayed up looking up things to look for on a used rifle. I think I scared myself that I bought a lemon since I am very new to guns (bought my first gun in May [Springfield XDM 9mm]) after some more in depth research.
The ruger appeared to be in great condition, I didn’t see anything that immediately raised flags, but the pull on the slide did get stuck and one of the workers took it to the back for a few minutes before he came back and claimed nothing was wrong with it and it just had a little trick to it. Something about holding the slide back 1/4 of the way while simultaneously pushing up on a little metal piece near the trigger guard or magazine receiver. Meanwhile I’m trying to ignore my phone which my lady is blowing up because we’re running late and it was my only time I had this week to make this purchase. I took another look at it and I’m hindsight didn’t even try to pull the slide back again after that. Now I think maybe it was a good thing because I usually dry fire and just learned that rimfire isn’t supposed to be dry fired.
Another thing I noticed is that the barrel was touching the wood on the right side of the stock and trying to use my eye alone I was unable to say for sure but I thought it looked like the barrel was slightly bent toward the right. I’m not sure if it was the lighting causing an optical illusion or maybe I was tricking myself to believe something is wrong since I was looking for something wrong with it due to being used.
I am wondering if these things are something I am able to 100% rule out when I go back after the 10 day waiting period and make sure are not faults in the rifle. I also saw that a bore scope is a thing and wonder if it’s appropriate to ask the workers to borrow one to look inside since I found out that’s a thing. Also how would I make sure the barrel isn’t actually bent? I’m thinking of bringing a level but idk. I’m definitely a noob at this. I also saw people here saying Ruger will fix anything on their guns as they have amazing customer service. But I feel a bent barrel would be out of the question? Any advice is welcome.
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