So I picked one up locally for my boy, he just turned 7, so it's his first real firearm. Problem is, I took him to the range today to do some shooting, and the darn thing would light strike nearly every round, and many failure to extract, brushed out the chamber, and extraction was better, but still had to pry a few out with my knife, as fully closing and locking the bolt, would sometimes still not extract the case. Mostly the light strikes were the biggest headache, sometimes every shot, or every other shot, it actually clicked more than it went bang...now I was shooting the cheap Winchester 555 value pack, I haven't tried any other ammo yet, but I was very surprised at the rate of failure...and my son wasn't too impressed either, and truth be told I was pretty choked at the fact that I bought him a brand new gun, took him to the range to fire a real gun, both for the first time, and had that much trouble with it, i kinda feel like i let him down, since it was our first time...I'm not made of money by any means, so $200 is a lot for me spend on a gun that isn't going to see a lot of daylight, and more so for one that hardly even works...anyone else experience something like this?
quick breakdown:
rifle: Savage Rascal .22
ammo: Winchester 36 grain copper plated hollow point
problems: light rim/primer strikes
additional details: could often light strike the same cartridge 2 or even 3 times, chuck it in for a 4th time and BANG! it goes...waiting for a potential hang fire every time, much time got wasted, and all in all, it was not the picture perfect first father/son range day i was hoping for
quick breakdown:
rifle: Savage Rascal .22
ammo: Winchester 36 grain copper plated hollow point
problems: light rim/primer strikes
additional details: could often light strike the same cartridge 2 or even 3 times, chuck it in for a 4th time and BANG! it goes...waiting for a potential hang fire every time, much time got wasted, and all in all, it was not the picture perfect first father/son range day i was hoping for