Browning 22 Lr ammo

Elk creek

My LGS had a giant display of new Browning ammo and at the top were 400 round boxes of 22lr for $23, not a pre panic price but ok. I bought two mainly because all the rest of my ammo is under a stack of boxes containing household goods. Moving sucks. As a diversion from said suckness I took some to the range to shoot two of the handguns I found without too much digging. The 1969 vintage 3 screw single six and the MKII target both ruger's and a joy to shoot. Well, the shooting was great kinda. It was good to get out and shoot and be at the old range, but it was a very short trip! I shot about 50 rounds and had enough. The ammo itself seems to be slightly oversized and won't chamber easily. In the MK II I had to press the back of the bolt firmly to fully chamber the round. I had about 5 fail to fire malfunctions. Thinking this may be a MKII quirk I moved to the single six, the most reliable and least finicky handgun ever produced. I had to really press the rounds into the chamber. The bullets would slide in no problem but where the case met the bullet it would hang up on the mouth of the chamber. With some firm pressing it would chamber. Needless to say I'm not that impressed with this lot of ammo. I have a "message" in to them, the phone number just tells you to contact them by email and hangs up. I hope they make this right. It's no big monetary investment but it sure is a pain in the butt! More to follow hopefully.

BAMAAK

I shot a couple of those boxes about a year ago in my 22/45s and 15-22s and they worked fine. Haven't seen any since. If I remember right, it's made by Winchester. I know the hollow points would not feed in semis

Big Chief

Never tried the Browning branded .22s, but my model 63 S&W revolver had a few that wouldn't chamber without force and they were 'Choot'em' CCI .22 Mini-mags. A few wouldn't go in at all.

Now in the past some brands or individual rounds wouldn't slide freely in the chambers, but just a very light tap would seat them in the charge holes.

Elk creek

BAMAAK wrote: »

I shot a couple of those boxes about a year ago in my 22/45s and 15-22s and they worked fine. Haven't seen any since. If I remember right, it's made by Winchester. I know the hollow points would not feed in semis

These were solid 40 grain bullets. Both my MKII's will shoot anything I put in the magazine, except these cartridges. Solids, hollow points and I got it to feed a snake shot once.

Elk creek

Big Chief wrote: »

Never tried the Browning branded .22s, but my model 63 S&W revolver had a few that wouldn't chamber without force and they were 'Choot'em' CCI .22 Mini-mags. A few wouldn't go in at all.

Now in the past some brands or individual rounds wouldn't slide freely in the chambers, but just a very light tap would seat them in the charge holes.

Two different guns made 20 years apart having roughly the same issue with the Ammo? My guess is just barely in spec ammo, or out.