.22LR Blowout

eddiememphis

eddiememphis

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I have been trying different ammo for a Taurus PT-22. It a fun little gun with horrible sights and a lousy trigger. It has no problem shooting 10 inch groups at 5 yards! But what should I expect from a double action only with a 1 1/4 inch barrel?

Trying to tighten the groups a bit, I grabbed a couple of boxes of different rounds, including some Browning BPR.

Wow- what garbage! Very dirty and smoky. Several failures to feed and then this-


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Blew the rim off. I stopped shooting them after that.

The best in this gun (and all my .22s) are Stingers but Taurus recommends against "hyper" velocity rounds in the little thing. I shot MiniMags and had zero problems.
 
Mine gets too dirty to fully chamber a round after a couple mags. Cleaning chamber fixes it.
 
You reload them ;).

If a 22 isn’t closed up that can happen. Lot of times case before the blowout will have a little bulge just above the rim.

Some are just machined wrong and do it.

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I was having that same issue with Aguila in my son's Browning 22 45 replica. It never did it with the federal automatch that we shoot every week. Cci standard velosity or cci mini mags. I thought it was a rona quality control problem, but I haven't had a single one since those two boxes of super extra.
 
Like said, make sure the chamber is very clean so the round will fully chamber. If you have been shooting a bullet with a lot of wax on it, it builds up at the mouth of the chamber. Normally takes a cleaning brush and/or good solvent to clean out. On my Browning ATD it will not fire unless the bolt is fully closed, so all I get is no fire. Then if I check the bolt I notice it's not fully closed. Most guns will give you a light FP hit if not fully closed. So if the round is not fully seated so the rim is supported it fails to fire.

Start by cleaning the gun real good then check to see if a round will pass a plunk test. I've had some ammo over the years that was a little fat and the bolt had to slam home in order to be able to fire it. I ended up using the ammo in a different gun that did not have as tight chamber.
 
I've had a blown rimfire case in the cupholder or console of my vehicle for almost the entirety of the 26yrs I've been driving - not the same one, as I throw them out when I clean my vehicles every few months, but I shoot enough 22LR that inevitably I have a blown case come up sooner than later, and I hang onto them, for whatever perverse reason. The same reason I have a factory 6mm Hagar case I found at a match this spring in my cupholder right now, as well as a 6.5 creed case with no headstamp at all - picked up a few weeks ago when I was shooting on squad with a Hornady engineer.
 
Browning BPR 22lr- Manufacturer: Olin Corporation d/b/a Browning Ammunition, from SDS.

Same place that made my defective Winchester WSPM primers.- Olin Corporation, Winchester Ammunition. 600 Powder Mill Rd East Alton IL 62024. (618) 258-2000
 
I have been shooting 22 rifles for over 70 years and have had exactly two. One was semi-auto that I had switched to dry lube that didn't lube very well after a short time and the rifle didn't go completely into battery. It made a pretty loud bang with a lot of smoke coming from the ejection port and left the bullet in the barrel. After removing the bullet, cleaning all the dry lube away, and returning to regular oil it has never happened again. The most recent was a bolt action gun and it just made a loud hissing noise with smoke coming out around the bolt and downward around the magazine. This one didn't even get the bullet into the barrel. There was no damage at all to either the gun or me both times.
 
Crap. The LGS had Browning BPR ammo on sale at $19.99 per box of 400 last week so I bought 2 boxes. Oh well, I’ll just save them for the next 22 ammo shortage and sell them for twice what I paid.
Back in early 2020 when shelves were bare I unloaded a brick of Thunderbolts on someone for $50
 
I got burned on the BPR too. Lots of problems, even in my Pietta .22 SA revolver. I had a couple of .22LR semiautos with me, and I never even put them into them. I bought some boxes of some other .22lr ammo at the range (At a not so great price), and had one dud out of 250. Maybe it was a good price. It was Federal, but I can't remember what it was called. 36gr copper stuff.
 
hemiram said:
I got burned on the BPR too. Lots of problems, even in my Pietta .22 SA revolver. I had a couple of .22LR semiautos with me, and I never even put them into them. I bought some boxes of some other .22lr ammo at the range (At a not so great price), and had one dud out of 250. Maybe it was a good price. It was Federal, but I can't remember what it was called. 36gr copper stuff.
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I read that it was made by Winchester so I ignore it just like I do Winchester branded 22 ammo. Winchester goes for a little more than CCi and when you figure in it's dud rate it certainly isn't cheap ammo. It's also frustrating to try to use and not great in the accuracy department when you can get it to fire. Back in my young years I could grab a box of Remington, Peters, or Winchester and expect it to shoot just the same with hardly ever a dud.
 
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