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Was at the range today, testing out the CZ VF-22 I got in the mail recently and it fired out of battery.
Shot about 200 rounds. Gun was having issues w/ WalMart Federal Ammo (red box) so I switched to CCI Blazer that I picked up at big 5. Gun ran great. Probably put about 150 rounds down the barrel, at 25 yds off a bench I was doing about a 3" group, firing rather quickly, with a 1x red-dot optic.
Anyways.
All was going well, then I heard the "firecracker" noise and tons of smoke coming out of the chamber.
Reason I'm guessing the weapon didn't go completely into battery was that (After setting the gun down and waiting a good sixty seconds for it to "cool off") I popped the magazine out, pulled the bolt back and found a very mutilated cartridge stuck in the receiver. Fished it out w/ the screwdriver I was adjusting my optic with. Quite a bit of metal lost, looked like maybe 1/4" of brass was exposed when I dropped the hammer. Needless to say, I packed up and went home for fear of a squib.
Took it home, absolutely no damage to the weapon whatsoever, although the magazine feeder lips took a pretty brutal beating.
What do you guys think, would you ever trust this thing again? I mean, first off, I need to get a new magazine if I even want to shoot it.
I'm thinking of going Spike's Tactical and not looking back. This has made me somewhat uneasy. I'd sell it, but I'm afraid of the same thing happening to someone else.
Bah.
Shot about 200 rounds. Gun was having issues w/ WalMart Federal Ammo (red box) so I switched to CCI Blazer that I picked up at big 5. Gun ran great. Probably put about 150 rounds down the barrel, at 25 yds off a bench I was doing about a 3" group, firing rather quickly, with a 1x red-dot optic.
Anyways.
All was going well, then I heard the "firecracker" noise and tons of smoke coming out of the chamber.
Reason I'm guessing the weapon didn't go completely into battery was that (After setting the gun down and waiting a good sixty seconds for it to "cool off") I popped the magazine out, pulled the bolt back and found a very mutilated cartridge stuck in the receiver. Fished it out w/ the screwdriver I was adjusting my optic with. Quite a bit of metal lost, looked like maybe 1/4" of brass was exposed when I dropped the hammer. Needless to say, I packed up and went home for fear of a squib.
Took it home, absolutely no damage to the weapon whatsoever, although the magazine feeder lips took a pretty brutal beating.
What do you guys think, would you ever trust this thing again? I mean, first off, I need to get a new magazine if I even want to shoot it.
I'm thinking of going Spike's Tactical and not looking back. This has made me somewhat uneasy. I'd sell it, but I'm afraid of the same thing happening to someone else.
Bah.
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