A few months ago, I bought some ammo off Gunbroker. It included 5 boxes of Federal AM22 that had obviously been stored pretty poorly. The brass has a lot of dark tarnish splotches and little dents. Some bullets are loose or bent over a little, and some have the lube flaking off. In short, this ammo is everything Jaia loves to see - except for one thing.
After shooting 4.5 boxes (325/box), I have not had one single misfire.
So this ammo seems ideal to accept a challenge Jaia put forth. He has said that mishandling rimfire ammo will knock primer out of the rim and cause misfires. He suggested that dropping ammo from a couple feet should do it.
Okay - Challenge Accepted!!!
I have taken 100 rounds of this fairly crappy ammo and divided it half. 50 rounds were placed in a box that keeps rounds separated, and the other 50 rounds were left in "inferior bulk packaging". Then this was placed in a "typical" shipping box with "typical" packing material.
The box was then taped closed with Scotch tape (not package tape). Then to make sure the mishandling was extreme enough, I set it atop a 8.5 ft tall shipping container and knocked it off.
After falling 8.5 ft onto concrete, the tape keeping the box closed tore thru.
I can guarantee you, some priming mix is knocked into the powder of many of these 100 rounds. The question is: How many misfires will result from this abusive ammo handling?
I will take this ammo to the range Wednesday and tally first hit successes, multiple hit (3 max) successes, and "dud" rounds for each group of 50.
Place your bets now! (Results will be posted Thursday.)
After shooting 4.5 boxes (325/box), I have not had one single misfire.
So this ammo seems ideal to accept a challenge Jaia put forth. He has said that mishandling rimfire ammo will knock primer out of the rim and cause misfires. He suggested that dropping ammo from a couple feet should do it.
Okay - Challenge Accepted!!!
I have taken 100 rounds of this fairly crappy ammo and divided it half. 50 rounds were placed in a box that keeps rounds separated, and the other 50 rounds were left in "inferior bulk packaging". Then this was placed in a "typical" shipping box with "typical" packing material.
The box was then taped closed with Scotch tape (not package tape). Then to make sure the mishandling was extreme enough, I set it atop a 8.5 ft tall shipping container and knocked it off.
After falling 8.5 ft onto concrete, the tape keeping the box closed tore thru.
I can guarantee you, some priming mix is knocked into the powder of many of these 100 rounds. The question is: How many misfires will result from this abusive ammo handling?
I will take this ammo to the range Wednesday and tally first hit successes, multiple hit (3 max) successes, and "dud" rounds for each group of 50.
Place your bets now! (Results will be posted Thursday.)