I got a few boxes of cci SV that the brass is badly corroded and ive had FTF's with them.

 

I’ve had great results with the last 5000 I bought. The next case in line: hope for the best.

 

I used to save up for cci blue box, would save for a brick. When i was younger I am 66, I have shot more 22 ammo then i can count older now only about 200 to 300 rounds a day. By accident I found Norma tex $3.50 a box $35.00 a brick, cci is about $45. $50 a brick.I got a deal on ccii sv so i bought 2 bricks, now I have 3 ammo boxz of Norma also shot some cci in both rifles 455"s well I still have a brick and 2 boxs, and I only have 1 ammo case left, norma I bought 10000 rounds of norma got about 1/2 case2500 rounds. Yes CCI is not what it used to be. The best any of my rifles shoot is when Eley RWS ect are involed thanks

 

I’m shooting more .22lr lately than I have in years. I have a son that has taken an interest in the sport so now we use twice the ammo. .22 lets us shoot more for less. It’s funny seeing the brands I used to trust having some issues and a brand like Remington be reliable. I was a little shocked. We are not bullseye shooting by any means, but putting holes in paper and hitting poppers is a lot more fun than clearing jams.

 

Of the high velocity .22lr rounds that primarily for target/plinking, I find CCI pretty much still the best bet for the money.
Last year, I shot one type of steel match similar to rimfire challenge, except with a whole lot more targets per stage. Bottom line, speed and volume were involved and extreme reliability from the pistols, carbines and ammo were needed.
Nothing ran better for me than CCI Minimag roundnose.

 

I stocked-up on CCI Mini Mags back around 2007, when priced wren't outrageous as they are now. I bought four bricks back then, haven't needed to buy anymore.

 

That’s a bummer. I love that stuff.

 

A week or so ago there was a couple threads here on RFC reporting CCI Standard Velocity was having issues going bang.
Can you get the mini mag lot number posted here? Maybe we can track this. Hopefully, it is restricted to a specific lot or two.
Did you pull the bullet out of the five strike cartridge? I understand that misfire cartridges like that often missed getting their primer goo in the base.

 

I will get a lot number when I get home tonight. As for the round, it was tossed in the woods as I was shooting outside.

 

I'm about 800 rounds in to the latest case of SV. Nothing to complain about in 2 Mark IV's and a CZ Kadet II conversion.
Lot # B19DA0 How do you read the date of Manf. ?

 

February 19, 2022.

Manufacture dates for CCI ammo lot numbers

I just bought a couple of cases of CCI .22LR ammo (Blazer and Mini-Mags) and wondered what the manufacture date on them was. I found the following info via Google: Since 1995 SPEER/CCI products have u

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IMO the quality of CCI SV went down 5 years or so ago. I do not know about other CCI varieties.

 

Well, that's a nogo!

 

To the best of my ability I think it’s August 26, 2023.

 

I haven’t had any bad rounds to date . My 40x loves the SV CCI

 

That's kind of impressive, maybe no primer at all in that round?

 

That’s what I’m thinking too.

 

Y'all need to get in the habit of pulling those ftf's apart.
Multiple strikes and no bang?
Disassemble that cartridge and dump the powder onto a sheet of paper.
Check for primer chunks mixed in with the powder.
Look inside the brass for bare spots in the rim
where the primer should be located.
Can't go bang if the primer ain't there, eh?

Take a pic of the dumped powder with the primer chunks in it
ya' have something to post that explains why and is hard to argue with.

 

[...] ya' have something to post that explains why and is hard to argue with.

This is the Internet - it's easy to argue with everything. ;-)

 

I've shot a brick out of a case of CCI SV that I bought a few months ago with no problems.

 

In my limited research lately, I’m noticing very few issues with the standard velocity CCI. The Mini Mags seem to be the culprit.

 

All regular .22LR ammo will occasionally experience FTF rounds. I shoot a lot of the cheaper stuff like Aguila, CCI and Federal and CCI has the fewest FTF rounds in my experience. The worst is the Federal Auto Match, but it shoots well in my Buck Mark, so I tolerate the occasional FTF. Very rarely, does it fail to fire on a second strike. Such is life when you shoot .22LR rimfire

 

My local Bullseye league started collecting the ftf`s and planned to report the issue to CCI. We stopped the collection because there were so many. Everyone is having problems

 

I’m expecting to see it eventually. No streak will last forever. I bought a P322 back a while ago and I have over 1500 rounds through it with the CCI Mini-Mags solids and hollow points. Have not had any firing or feeding problems. I shot a couple hundred of the Remington Ranch Hands through it with zero problems. But I am cleaning it to some degree every 100-200 rounds. I put some older Federal Champions, Eagles and Game-Shok thru it and they cycled well also. I tried some ThunderBolts in it and my results were not great, had some jams, not many. But shooting these was at the end of the shooting session and I attributed it to being dirty.
But on a reliability point I’m satisfied just using the CCI MiniMags and the Ranch Hands. But I am expecting a MM or RH to not fire eventually. I have never seen a .22 lr that isn’t dirty, some dirtier than others.

 

I can't even remember the last time I had a FTF with CCI SV. I have slacked off on shooting some lately, but it's been years since I remember a FTF. I've actually had more FTF with more expensive ammo myself.

 

With the Sig Sauer P322 the factory/manufactuer has video and reviews on clip loading to keep for encountering feed issues. I saw the videos before I ever bought the hand gun and have been following their advise on loading the mags. Along with keeping it clean I have over 1500 rounds of just the CCI without a failure.

 

So I picked up a Mossberg 702 plinkster just because it was $117.00. I cleaned it and test fired to sight in the fiber optic sights that come on it. 30 rounds of golden bullet with one stove pipe jam. 10 rounds of federal champion no problems. 10 round of the Mini mag hollow points with one failure to fire after the primer was hit. I’m convinced that I got a bad batch as all of my MM was purchased together. I’ve had perfect reliability from the MM 40gr round nose though so who knows. On a side note at 30 yards this rifle was off 4 inches high and 4 inches to the right. Great job MOSSBERG.

 

I shot through about 1200 rounds of 40 grain Mini Mags in my winter pistol league where everything is shot on the clock. Reliability is key, there isn't time to fix a problem.

I purchased it last summer and am pleased to report that I didn’t have a single hiccup.

 

I'm attacking the accuracy pursuit on my OG PWS Summit T3 action (separate thread here on RFC) and I'm testing various ammo with it, to see what it likes best. So far, the CCI SV shoots VERY well (running a KYL 8 round target at 50 yds), and the next best I found is SK Standard Plus. However, I was having so many FTF (light primer strikes) on the SK, but the CCI SV would go bang each time. I replaced my firing pin, extractors and springs with the Volquartsen kit, and it cut the FTF on the SK to almost none. I have yet to have issues with the CCI SV. I just ordered two bricks of CCI SV to shoot.

Granted, my CCI SV is older, had it for years. Interesting to see how the newer CCI SV (blue bricks) shoot.

 

I'm attacking the accuracy pursuit on my OG PWS Summit T3 action (separate thread here on RFC) and I'm testing various ammo with it, to see what it likes best. So far, the CCI SV shoots VERY well (running a KYL 8 round target at 50 yds), and the next best I found is SK Standard Plus. However, I was having so many FTF (light primer strikes) on the SK, but the CCI SV would go bang each time. I replaced my firing pin, extractors and springs with the Volquartsen kit, and it cut the FTF on the SK to almost none. I have yet to have issues with the CCI SV. I just ordered two bricks of CCI SV to shoot.

Granted, my CCI SV is older, had it for years. Interesting to see how the newer CCI SV (blue bricks) shoot.

just shot this. New cci sv .

 

We burn through a fair about of ammo during the development of new products, and CCI remains our go-to brand.

Like others here, from time to time we get some FTF rounds, but it's less than 1%. I figure during development time, we burn about a case a week. It's a mix of Mini Mag, Mini Mag HP, Velocitor, Standard Velocity, and some of their Green 22.

 

For the price I find CCI std velocity to be an excellent choice.