.22 dud

[BrassCase]

From my volunteer RSO shifts, shooting steel and sorting our range brass it would seem to be the Remington bucket of bullets that has the most duds. That being said, to be fair, they are also the most bought and shot brand. We see Federal next on the dud list, again there is also a lot of those sold. Back when it was legal, we inspected, sorted and then recycled the 22's into our youth shooting program. We feel that most will go BANG on the 2nd attempt. We tell shooters who complain about their ammo to rotate the duds about 1/3 of a turn so they strike virgin brass again and they usually go BANG.

Our 22 competition shooters use Terex or Lapua usually.

[Sanderhawk]

I use Federal and Aguila they both work well. I have a 10/22.

[ojisan]

Twenty years ago when I first bought my Buckmark, I don't recall any duds.

My Buckmark is at least 20 years old and has fired a huge number of rounds.
After many years and many thousand of rounds I did start getting some random misfires even though everything was clean and the ammo was good.
The misfire problem got worse as the round count went up.
I inspected the fired cases carefully and could see that the firing pin was striking the case high on the rim.
What could cause this?
Two things were found:
- The soft aluminum B Square scope mount had a groove worn in it in the underside from the black hard plastic button on the front end of the recoil spring guide rubbing on it.
This allowed the tip of the firing pin to rise up slightly.
I replaced the scope mount with a new one and the misfires dropped in half.
Checking the fired cases showed the strike location was now lower but still a little high.
- The plastic button top edge rubs on the mount, the bottom edge holds the firing pin down. Both the top and bottom edges of the button showed wear.
I replaced the button and the misfires went away.
Checking the fired cases after both parts were replaced showed a much lower and proper firing pin strike location.

I now have extra buttons and recoil springs (plus other parts like the frame buffer) as spares, the parts are cheap and available from Browning.

[fatfreadiescat]

glad I'm still working through the 20,000 I got from CMP

[fatfreadiescat]

No ftf