Winchester Bulk Pack Misfires

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Went to the range yesterday with a brand new unfired 10/22 and a bunch of winchester The Winchester Wildcat ammo worked perfect in the 10/22 and my buddy`s Mossberg bolt action. Then I loaded up with the Winchester 333 round bulk pack from walmart. 8 misfires out of 10 rounds, rim was dented good by firing pin but no bang. Then tried them in my buddy`s bolt action and got same result, properly dented firing pin but no bang. Bullets were bought 2 months ago.
Anyone else have this problem?
 
Yes lots of threads about this. Apparently the ruger 10/22 is a very picky rifle, you need to upgrade the trigger, extracter and a bunch of other parts before it will function properly.
 
cyclops666 said:
Yes lots of threads about this. Apparently the ruger 10/22 is a very picky rifle, you need to upgrade the trigger, extracter and a bunch of other parts before it will function properly.
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Yes, But that doesn`t explain why they would not work in my buddy`s bolt action. That was a Lakefield Mossberg.
 
I guess I was really lucky with my 10/22. All stock parts and it'll shoot and feed anything I put in it from the cheapest of the cheap to premium hunting and even subsonic match ammo. Takes 5000+ rounds fired before I start to get FTE's due to a dirty chamber.

As for the failures most likely a bad batch. It happens with rimfire ammo quite a bit; especially the past couple years since they've ramped up production because of the escalated demand. The cheaper the ammo, the higher the odds of a bad batch due to poor QC.
I have a few thousand rounds in the form of Win bulk packs (555, 333, and 222 packs) that I've tested a couple hundred from each different batch number and I'll get 1-2 FTF out of 100rnds. They almost always fire the second strike. It's decent ammo, good for the price, but not premium ammo by any account.

Could try to contact Winchester and see if they'll do anything about it. If they get enough reports of bad ammo from the same batch number they'll probably do something about it.
 
LUTNIT said:
I guess I was really lucky with my 10/22. All stock parts and it'll shoot and feed anything I put in it from the cheapest of the cheap to premium hunting and even subsonic match ammo. Takes 5000+ rounds fired before I start to get FTE's due to a dirty chamber.

As for the failures most likely a bad batch. It happens with rimfire ammo quite a bit; especially the past couple years since they've ramped up production because of the escalated demand. The cheaper the ammo, the higher the odds of a bad batch due to poor QC.
I have a few thousand rounds in the form of Win bulk packs (555, 333, and 222 packs) that I've tested a couple hundred from each different batch number and I'll get 1-2 FTF out of 100rnds. They almost always fire the second strike. It's decent ammo, good for the price, but not premium ammo by any account.

Could try to contact Winchester and see if they'll do anything about it. If they get enough reports of bad ammo from the same batch number they'll probably do something about it.
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This. Agreed.
 
I have a box of Win Xpert HV... 1 in 5 are duds. I ignore this box now.
Shot a 100 ish of Win 555, no duds.
Shot 250 ish of Win Dynapoint GT, no duds.
Shot 300 ish of Federal Bulk, no duds.
The 555, GT, and Fed Bulf shoot very close to same POI from my Marlin 795, which is good.

As with all ammo, especially .22LR, YMMV. Hugely.
 
spoiled with CCI brand ammo...that's all I used for years
recently had no other choice but to buy some Winchester 222 since it was all the store had in stock
have shot thousands of rounds of CCI brand and maybe got one or two bad rounds
on the other hand this Winchester 222 stuff 2-3 bad rounds out of a hundred...that for me is unacceptable
 
cyclops666 said:
Apparently the ruger 10/22 is a very picky rifle, you need to upgrade the trigger, extracter and a bunch of other parts before it will function properly.
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I disagree. I have a 10/22 that is 25 years old and another that is 4 years old. Most of my friends have them as well. None of them needed upgrades to function properly. I don't think the rifle would have been so successful if that was the case.

What the OP is describing definately sounds like an ammo problem. See if you can find some Federal or CCI ammo. They have always been the most reliable in my experience.
 
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