I read a lot about certain brands of .22 ammo being worse for duds than others. I wondered about it sense my rifles seem to do well with one of the brands with a bad reputation.
Last year, in April, I was at an Appleseed in WV. There was a family on one end of the line with three .22's. Two were 10/22's and one was an old single shot Remington bolt action (can't remember the model).
Anyway, the mother and daughter were ocassionally having duds with a couple different brands of ammo they were using in the 10/22's they were shooting. They had several one hundred round boxes of CCI ammo and a brick of Centurion (?). The son was using the single shot Remington. Over the course of the morning I'd helped them several times with duds/jams, etc. and they were getting a little pile of dud rounds on the mat between them. Then the pile was gone. I noticed the son (with the single shot Remington had a little pile of loose .22 shells on his part of their mat. He was grabbing up their duds and shooting them. I asked him about it and he said he hadn't had a dud round all morning and decided to see if their duds would shoot in his rifle and he said every one of them was going off.
I got to wondering it the design that allows the more modern .22's to be dry fired (firing pin made with an internal stop in the bolt that keeps it from contacting the chamber edge when dry fired) might be the difference. A slight difference in the length of the pin past the stop (either that part being to short or the stop being cut to far forward - same results)or the inside of the bolt not being cut deep enough or even powder residue build up inside the bolt(.22 semiautos are way dirtier inside than the bolt actions ever get) were causing the problem instead of the ammo itself.
I understand its a good idea to stay away from ammo that doesn't work in your rifle but the idea here is that the rifle would be more versatile/reliable if it could shoot more brands of .22 ammo.
Just something to think about.
Last year, in April, I was at an Appleseed in WV. There was a family on one end of the line with three .22's. Two were 10/22's and one was an old single shot Remington bolt action (can't remember the model).
Anyway, the mother and daughter were ocassionally having duds with a couple different brands of ammo they were using in the 10/22's they were shooting. They had several one hundred round boxes of CCI ammo and a brick of Centurion (?). The son was using the single shot Remington. Over the course of the morning I'd helped them several times with duds/jams, etc. and they were getting a little pile of dud rounds on the mat between them. Then the pile was gone. I noticed the son (with the single shot Remington had a little pile of loose .22 shells on his part of their mat. He was grabbing up their duds and shooting them. I asked him about it and he said he hadn't had a dud round all morning and decided to see if their duds would shoot in his rifle and he said every one of them was going off.
I got to wondering it the design that allows the more modern .22's to be dry fired (firing pin made with an internal stop in the bolt that keeps it from contacting the chamber edge when dry fired) might be the difference. A slight difference in the length of the pin past the stop (either that part being to short or the stop being cut to far forward - same results)or the inside of the bolt not being cut deep enough or even powder residue build up inside the bolt(.22 semiautos are way dirtier inside than the bolt actions ever get) were causing the problem instead of the ammo itself.
I understand its a good idea to stay away from ammo that doesn't work in your rifle but the idea here is that the rifle would be more versatile/reliable if it could shoot more brands of .22 ammo.
Just something to think about.
