Am I just lucky?

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I read all the time in these rimfire threads, about cheapo bulk ammo misfiring, not going bang. Now I've had some that don't feed well in my semi's, some will stove pipe with maddening regularity in the 10-22. But through all that, and with at least about 20 bricks and bulk boxes through the pipes, I've never pulled a trigger on a round, and not heard a bang. I've got a Ruger 10/22, Ruger MkIII, and Ruger Single Six. I don't clean them anymore than they require, the 10/22 is the only one that's had more than one cleaning. I just wonder if I'm just lucky, that I get the "good" cheap ammo, or is it that other guns maybe aren't as reliable as the ones I have, or is there some other mystical explanation?
 
In all of my rimfires I've never had a dud.... I have a bunch of them, and I've been shooting .22 for 25+yrs from the time I was 8 till now.....

That said I was at my pistol club last week on new member night, it was slow and I decided "wtf I'll try a range/trainer gun".

The gun I tried was a S&W model 41, its about 15-20yrs old, and sees conservativley about 5000 rnds a month...... I had one round that dented the casing but didn't go bang. After following the usual "no bang" procedure I ejected the round and turned it 180 degrees and inserted it back into the mag with the dent down (on the advice of the range officer)... and then to my surprise it went bang.

I personally call that a light hit, but I may be wrong..... I almost never buy/use this particular kind of ammo. The range office said he sees it al the time. I told him maybe it was time the club started buying different ammo........
 
Nope, not a ruger thing; I have not had a FTF in years either, and I Own: Remingtons, Rugers, Winchesters, Anschutz, Mossbergs, Suhl........etc. Eagleye.
 
you're a lucky bunch

I've had a couple of misfires, but they are very few and far between, maybe every couple thousand rounds. I think it has more to do with how the firing pin is shaped and if it gives the round a good enough whack to set it off. My Savage has a fairly narrow firing pin and it has caused me 1 misfire, but my cooey has a firing pin almost 1/8th in die:eek: and never had a problem with it!

NOW GO AND BUY TICKETS!:D
 
In my Mark III 22/45 I've had plenty of stovepipes, others at my club with them have had jams too. However, since I did the "mag mod" I haven't had a single stovepipe or jam. Some duds are unavoidable though, its the ammo not the gun in that case. I recently got a VQ extractor for it, but since it's working so well now I don't feel the need to install it.
 
Just to clairify..... I get stove pipes and and my semi's do occasionally fail to feed...... I've never had a round load into the chamber and then not fire (in my own personal rimfires). In my one 10/22 for a while there I was getting 2 and sometimes 3 stove pipes in a 10rnd mag... man was I happy when I finally figgured that out!
 
The only ammo I have ever had misfires with is cheap winchester bulk packs. I've had some with 333's, dynapoints, and xpert. Some of these I was able to flip and then fire (I would guess this means the priming compound only made it around part of the rim of the case) and some refused to fire period.

However, in the many many other packs of rimfire I've shot, including a fair amount of federal bulk packs, not one. Before I had tried the winchester bulk ammo I thought misfires were a bit of a myth as well. My cooey model 39 with a nice big firing pin I have never had a misfire with.
 
Even with the xperts, my only problem is they don't feed in either semi, so I use them for the revolver, still bang everytime. I'm going to princess auto today, I should buy a little file to do the MKIII magazine mod, get them to feed everything.

For those who recommend I try the lottery, it would appear that all my lottery luck went into rimfire ammo. Over the course of the past 2 months, I've matched a grand total of 3 numbers, between tickets for every draw. I think it was February last time I won $10.
 
People seem to blame alot of the misfire problems on the cheap bulk ammo but in my experience its been quite reliable...when its not, its usually something other than the ammo itself causing the issue.
 
Curt I would insert joke about the solvent abuser hobo giving you a lap dance while driving the city bus. But decided not to.
 
I have used up 5 bricks of mixed Winchester ammo in the last 2 weeks ..333s, Dynapoints and Hollow experts. They all went thru my 4- 1940s Mossys fine, as well as the 3 - Lakefield Marks and no misfires. The Experts do not cycle thru the Cooey 64s, but the 333s do fine as well as the dynapoints. Many of the more expensive brands do have a few misfires.
 
I've had a few legitimate FTF...where I've re-fed the same round and it still failed to fire after the second or third try...but they are very rare. I've also had a few that went off after the second try.
 
Timberwolfe said:
Curt I would insert joke about the solvent abuser hobo giving you a lap dance while driving the city bus. But decided not to.
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I guess for every upside, there's a downside. Didn't exactly get lucky on that on did I? :kickInTheNuts: I really didn't even want that weeks pay.

Anyone thinking of becoming a bus driver, just find the dirtiest hobo you can, let them fall on top of you while driving. If you can resist the urge to hoof them a couple times afterward, you'll make a better bus driver than me :rolleyes:

I'm still lucky for rimfire, though. That's worth more than winning the lottery or not being dephiled by hobo's. :dancingbanana:
 
cyclone said:
Might I ask the ammo? ;)
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Off the top of my head, I've used:
American Eagle 32 gr hollow points
Winchester Dynapoints
Winchester 333 pak
Winchester xperts
Winchester Wildcats bulk + regular boxes
Federal bulk pak
Federal Champions
CCI Stingers

Only the stingers were more than $3 per 50, most of the bricks and bulk paks were under $16 when I bought them. So I'm using mainly the cheaper ammo. Again, I'm not saying they all fed great, some had major stovepipe issues. The most reliable I found were:

Federal champions & bulk pak
CCI stingers
American eagle 32gr
Winchester dynapoints
Winchester Wildcats in the regular boxes (bulk sucked)

The other ones still all went bang if they would get to the chamber, but very often they never made it, or they'd stovepipe on the way out. I just reserve all the remainder of the crappy ones for use in the single six.

As Timberwolfe pointed out, perhaps my life is only meant to be lucky in the rimfire ammo department, great, lucky me :kickInTheNuts:
 
I am another one that has had very few misfires over the years. Haven't used a lot of the new bulk ammo, but still, almost no problems.

Oh, and I don't use a 10/22
 
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