.17hmr shell split

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I was shooting my savage 93 r17 today and when I picked the shells up I noticed three of them were split. These are Winchester v-max .17grain. Could it have been a bad batch?



 
If you haven't had an issue with the gun before I would certainly look to the brass....winchester seems to be having issues in that regard for a while now....only bright spot is the brass is throw away anyway. For interest sake was the ammo just bought or was it some older supply?
 
I have had the same problem, I have also read threads on other forums with the exact same problem, I have the same rifle, I think it has to do with the chamber myself, I have tried several types of ammo with the same results
 
westarm said:
I have had the same problem, I have also read threads on other forums with the exact same problem, I have the same rifle, I think it has to do with the chamber myself, I have tried several types of ammo with the same results
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only thing I can remember is that I never had this problem originally when I got the gun, so perhaps the casings are being made out of spec or something, think I will get hold of savage after hearing this over and over
 
They can split with any rifle. They sometimes do on my CZ. Only split that bad with the Winchesters though. I have some never fired split Hornady v-max still in the box! Hornady did not care lol.
 
Oh wow. I actually understood what Kamlooky said this time. Thanks for posting the split casing issue. Something for me to watch for
 
daman2270 said:
If you haven't had an issue with the gun before I would certainly look to the brass....winchester seems to be having issues in that regard for a while now....only bright spot is the brass is throw away anyway. For interest sake was the ammo just bought or was it some older supply?
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I just bought the ammo from walmart, but it could have been there for a while.
 
westarm said:
I have had the same problem, I have also read threads on other forums with the exact same problem, I have the same rifle, I think it has to do with the chamber myself, I have tried several types of ammo with the same results
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I never had this problem with CCI, but then I heard that the brass is made in the same factory.
 
I had this problem a few years ago when I first got my .17 and a few boxes of Winchester 20 grain XTP's in the gray box. Maybe 3-5 per box would split and some would jam in the chamber. Once I switched to shooting federal and CCI I had no issues. I heard at the time that Winchester wasn't properly annealing the brass after forming, I would have thought that would have been fixed by now!
 
I had the same issue about 10yrs ago with Remington 17 ammo, about 1/3 of the cases would split like that. Took rifle to gunsmith everything was fine and contact Rem and they weren't interested in doing much at all. Since then have boycotted all rem rimfire ammo.
In my 17 I shoot hornady and a bit of federal, haven't tried cci, no more issues - it's your ammo gun should be fine.
 
kamlooky said:
I'd be tempted to time or mark the brass to see if the brass splits in the same area
or whether the splits are random?
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It's possible for sure that different guns may "help" with the split cases, but since I have live loaded rounds that are split, pretty sure it the brass being crappy.
I prefer CCI and Federal over the other brands. Only has Winchester's not eject. Hornady rounds that were bad just had a funny sound.

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Winchester and savage do not play nice together. When I had a 93r17 it was so hard to get through a box of win ammo. Many many split cases, ftf, fte you name it. Never happened with any other ammo ever.
Sold that gun bought a cz 452 and its more accurate. Never tried win ammo though don't feel like spending money of crap ammo.
 
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