Hey everyone. So i hope this doesnt turn into a flame war. I had a wacky idea the other day as im sure anyone knows semi autos can be pretty picky with the ammo. My gsg 15 loves mini mags, subsonics. Eleys and few other. It doesnt like much of the cheaper bulk winchester remington stuff. Primarily failure to feed or jamming the action. The other day i bought a dozen or so 50 round packs of the federal ammo 40 grain standard velocity for 3.50 each at cabelas. Normally im lucky if i can get about 4 to cycle in a row. However. Today i opened a few packs sprayed them down with a can of silicone lube i had on the shelf. Boxed them back up and drove out to my favourite shooting spot and let go a few hundred rounds. The difference. Night and day. 1 failure to feed out of a few hundred. Now im gonna also say im not responsible for any damages should you try this. Simply stating my observations. I will note however that it did appear to collect alot more gsr inside the action however, i am quite anal about keeping my guns clean. So for a massive savings on cheap .22 ammo im gonna keep trying this. Anyone else ever tried this?
My bulk ammo .22 trick in a semi auto.
- Thread starter Ck_sooke
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Lubing cases usually isn't a good idea. Well, it's highly ill advised with centerfire cartridges, it means the case won't expand and stick to the chamber. The reasn you are getting more crap in the action is because the case isn't sealing in the chamber due to lube. I had a similar FTF issue from the mags, my solution was to loosen the follower screw a bit. I started a thread abotu this abotu a week ago in this forum.
People always use to complain about Sig Mosquito's only working with mini mags, mine shoots anything I put in it flawlessly, all I did was polish the feed ramp and most importantly it loves lots of lube. I load mags and second last round I'd put a drop of oil on the case, can take it out and shoot a brick with it and not have any issues and not have to use mini mags to enjoy the gun.
