Not sure if this should be posted here or in Ammo but I'm not sure the ammo was the problem.
Bought a used 10/22 stainless from a pawn shop a couple of years ago. After market Butler Creek .920 barrel and some kind of funky blue synthetic stock and a Burris scope. I think the serial number is about 2003 but the rifle appears fairly well used.
I took it out and couldn't hit anything with it. Was unable to zero the scope, shots all over the paper. Don't have much experience with scopes and figured it was junk. Cleaned the rifle and put it away until recently i decided it would a fun project.
Took it apart and cleaned it thoroughly at which time I discovered that the stock didn't fit well and receiver moved easily. Rather than trying to make the old stock fit I bought a Hogue (and VQ hammer and bolt kit, on backorder). Tonight I put the new stock on, remounted the scope and went out to run a few through it.
I usually use the better ammo for sighting in but decided to use Remington GBs becaue I have several boxes and it was handy. Shooting from a rest at 25 yrds it actually shot very well. A couple of rounds into mag #2 I had an explosion and the bolt was back. Good thing I had safety glasses on because powder hit me in the face. The rim was gone from the 22 casing and still partially in the chamber. Cleared the gun and inspected it. Everything looked ok.
I had some Butler Creek mags loaded with Winchester Red box and load it. Fired a couple of rounds and had a failure to feed that bent the bullet. Not too surprised because I've had feeding problems with both the mags and the Win ammo before.
So, having fired thousands of rounds of cheap 22 ammo in my life I really didn't expect another problem other than feeding. I load another mag of Rem GBs and about the 5th round I have an explosion again. Couldn't find the casing and next round failed to feed.
Gun problem or ammo problem?
Try again with better ammo or send to gunsmith?
Bought a used 10/22 stainless from a pawn shop a couple of years ago. After market Butler Creek .920 barrel and some kind of funky blue synthetic stock and a Burris scope. I think the serial number is about 2003 but the rifle appears fairly well used.
I took it out and couldn't hit anything with it. Was unable to zero the scope, shots all over the paper. Don't have much experience with scopes and figured it was junk. Cleaned the rifle and put it away until recently i decided it would a fun project.
Took it apart and cleaned it thoroughly at which time I discovered that the stock didn't fit well and receiver moved easily. Rather than trying to make the old stock fit I bought a Hogue (and VQ hammer and bolt kit, on backorder). Tonight I put the new stock on, remounted the scope and went out to run a few through it.
I usually use the better ammo for sighting in but decided to use Remington GBs becaue I have several boxes and it was handy. Shooting from a rest at 25 yrds it actually shot very well. A couple of rounds into mag #2 I had an explosion and the bolt was back. Good thing I had safety glasses on because powder hit me in the face. The rim was gone from the 22 casing and still partially in the chamber. Cleared the gun and inspected it. Everything looked ok.
I had some Butler Creek mags loaded with Winchester Red box and load it. Fired a couple of rounds and had a failure to feed that bent the bullet. Not too surprised because I've had feeding problems with both the mags and the Win ammo before.
So, having fired thousands of rounds of cheap 22 ammo in my life I really didn't expect another problem other than feeding. I load another mag of Rem GBs and about the 5th round I have an explosion again. Couldn't find the casing and next round failed to feed.
Gun problem or ammo problem?
Try again with better ammo or send to gunsmith?
