My 17/22 grenaded today

[Tank 57]

I have a Remington 541-X in .22LR that did the same thing.Only damage was magazine.Bullet stopped about 2 inches from muzzle.Ruined an aluminum cleaning rod tapping it out.

[pl408]

if you dont mind, I am going to use the picture in the appleseed subforum

No problem penny's dad

[pl408]

I've seen this several times with .22lr rimfire. It can happen with any rimfire, the case blows out, all the powder and power is blown out the ejection port/mag well, and the bullet, not having enough "oomph" stops somewhere in the barrel. The only damage I've ever seen done in these situations is 10/22's blowing the extractor out. If you shoot rimfires enough, your going to see this sooner or later. Make sure your run a rod down the barrel to make sure the bullet didnt stick.

Extractor was no where to be found and I'm curios to see if that bullet come out easily
I will report back tomorrow after I give it a try

[Remus]

If that is a custom barrel then it probably has a match cut chamber profile. I've heard for the 10/22 variants with match barrels that the chamber will foul causing a round to not fully seat resulting in an out of battery discharge. So even if you go with a 22lr build, if the barrel has a match chamber, be certain to keep some pipe cleaners handy to clean out the chamber with some regularity. Glad no-one was hurt.

[pl408]

Well great news from Magnum Research already
They said there was no recall but will do the conversion to 22lr at no cost
Really happy with there customer service and I will purchasing more of there products in the future

[chrisout]

If that is a custom barrel then it probably has a match cut chamber profile. I've heard for the 10/22 variants with match barrels that the chamber will foul causing a round to not fully seat resulting in an out of battery discharge. So even if you go with a 22lr build, if the barrel has a match chamber, be certain to keep some pipe cleaners handy to clean out the chamber with some regularity. Glad no-one was hurt.

That is exactly what happened with mine on several rounds I finally looked and it did have some powder burns and the Chamber area I clean them out thoroughly an around about 500 rounds after that with no problems at all

[pl408]

If that is a custom barrel then it probably has a match cut chamber profile. I've heard for the 10/22 variants with match barrels that the chamber will foul causing a round to not fully seat resulting in an out of battery discharge. So even if you go with a 22lr build, if the barrel has a match chamber, be certain to keep some pipe cleaners handy to clean out the chamber with some regularity. Glad no-one was hurt.

Found a crack in the chamber in the notch for the extractor before shipping it out
I will keep that in mind and check my other 10/22 that also has a match chamber
Thanks

[WDE91]

.17M2 and .17HMR belong in manually activated guns not autoloaders...

[snypr]

Glad you are ok.... I had a girlfriend that didnt like guns at all....it took years of convincing for me to get her to shoot off a few rounds out of my marlin 60....i gave her the safety lecture, instructed her on form and function, etc etc......she goes to touch off the first round..and gets a case rupture...black smoke on her hands, brass tore threw her finger.....it made her physically sick and me saying...wtf?!?!. sometime you cant win for losing....anywho, sorry to detract, but again, glad all is ok.