22 mag revolver
just took a
revolver out that i've had for quite a while but have never shot it,
its a 22 mag, fired the first 4 and seemed ok,
on the fifth shot, just heard like a fizzle and seen like sparks around
the end of cylender, came back in house and took empty shells out and
this is what they looked like, and the one that
fizzled the bullet was about 2 inches down in barrel, took a cleaning
rod and tappinng it, the bullet came out, could see unburnt powder
around end of cylender, dont really know if cylender is bad someway or
i have a bad box of ammo, guess ill get a different box of ammo and try
agan
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revolver out that i've had for quite a while but have never shot it,
its a 22 mag, fired the first 4 and seemed ok,
on the fifth shot, just heard like a fizzle and seen like sparks around
the end of cylender, came back in house and took empty shells out and
this is what they looked like, and the one that
fizzled the bullet was about 2 inches down in barrel, took a cleaning
rod and tappinng it, the bullet came out, could see unburnt powder
around end of cylender, dont really know if cylender is bad someway or
i have a bad box of ammo, guess ill get a different box of ammo and try
agan
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The good news is they aren't horribly disfigured like shooting a regular 22 long rifle in a 22 Auto chamber.
The make and model of the pistol and the exact ammo used would make this an informative post in a future look back.
added I have 22 Remington Golden bullets that were bought in about 1968 for one cent each including tax. They will still function flawlessly, last time I checked a few years ago. Of any current rim fire stuff I like CCI minimags the best.
Rimfire brass splits once in a while. You shoot enough it will happen. That is the reason my dad like the Remington model 12/121 over the exposed hammer Winchester 90/06 or anyone's bolt gun. The last one for me was a few year back complete head separation of a Federal in my Erma Trainer. No big deal I wear glasses.0 -
Over the years. I have run across a couple of revolvers, that were converted by bubba from 22 LR to 22 Mag. From your photos. Not to surprised, if this is the story with yours. 0 -
I think the ammo was defective, possibly from poor storage or some other outside factor. Several years ago I found a box of Winchester .22 magnum ammo which had fallen from a shelf onto a dirt floor where they had become partially buried over time. The box fell apart but the ammo didn't look too bad so I cleaned it up a little so it would chamber. Every round split just like yours and some of the bullets did not exit the barrel. There were about a dozen complete duds which did fire when I tossed them in a large fire. I tried them in a Browning BPR, an H&R 676 and two different Marlin bolt rifles. The cases split in all guns. 0 -
i think your going to be right about the ammo, the gun is a ruger and the cyl is marked 22 mag and looks fine, will get my 22 mag rifle out tomorrow and see what happens with the ammo, thanks 0 -
How old was the ammo? 0 -
What brand was the ammo?
I had some 17 Mach 2 ammo from CCI that a friend had stored in his safe for a few years.He bought them thinking they were 17 HMR and traded them to me since he had no gun to fire them in.
In reality, they were about 10 years old according to CCI. (He bought them from Sportsmans Guide)
About 10 percent of them were bad. They split and blew out the mag on my T/C R-55 rifle. The cases from mine looked just like yours. I still have them in a little ziplock bag in my desk drawer.
CCI claims they must have been stored near ammonia or some other chemical that weakened the brass. My friend tells me that was not the case.
If you look at them under a strong magnifying glass, you can see tiny splits in about 10% of them, even before firing.
I asked CCI's customer service guy if they would replace them, especially since rimfire ammo was (and is) so hard to get. The guy from CCI told me I was out of luck. "Too old" he said.
Looking on the internet, it appears CCI had this issue way back when the 17 Mach 2 had just come out- so I'm not sure I believe them. I think it was just a bad batch of brass and they don't want to admit it. (Either that or Sportsman's Guide had them stored improperly before selling them to my friend.)
I have shot other rimfire ammo that is probably 50 years old and it still fires just fine.
I trust my friend-so I don't buy any more CCI rimfire ammo.0 -
ammo was winchester super x, memory not real good but guessing i bought it 10 years or so ago, was always stored in ammo cans 0 -
I had the same result in a marlin rifle with older super x ammo, they did replace it. 0 -
It's my understanding that 10 years is about the shelf life of .22 ammo. Regardless of what conditions kept. Most will still fire OK, but you start seeing duds and squibs after that. And possibly split cases. 0 -
http://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=484260
My experience with 22 Mag Winchester 40gr HP splitting cases. I also found one loaded cartridge case that was split, along with other visible defects in the this particular ammo.0
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