Ammo Check; S&B .357 Mag; Misfires

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

Two (2) cylinders of S&B 158 gr JSP I purchased for fodder. One misfire in each cylinder. I was able to light them off with a second strike.

This is my first experience with Sellier and Bellot, and will be my last.

Anybody need a pertially used box of .357 maggie?

Edited to state that it was not the gun (3 other ammo types worked fine )

 

[Z_Infidel]

I used to own a couple Taurus revolvers, with which I encountered an occasional misfire with S&B ammo. I have NEVER had a misfire with S&B in my Ruger or S&W revolvers. I shoot a lot of S&B and have been pretty pleased with it. It also seems to work very good in my Marlin lever gun. I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with it, but I still think S&B is pretty good overall.

 

[HiWayMan]

ME TOO

This same thing happened to me. Bought mine last year in April at Cabellas in Michigan. P*ssed me off something terrible. Wonder if it was a bad lot of ammo??

I've had good luck with S&B 7.62x25 in my CZ52 though.

Shoot Straight, Shoot Fast, Shoot Often

HiWayMan

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

Mine was from Cabel's via internet. I also read on another thread that the auto ammo is AOK.

Revolver in question IS a Taurus tracker. 2,000 rounds and this was the first misfire/light strike issue

 

[DMK]

I've shot a lot of S&B in my guns including a bunch of .38 and .357 through my Smith 28-2. Never a problem.

Now .38 Special CCI Blazer, that's another story. The aluminum cases kept sliding out of the chambers on recoil and jamming the cylinder.

 

[who me]

I've had this happen with my Ruger SP101. It was 1 out of 300 i think, but I still like the ammo.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

Hmm.

I've shot some S&B .357 158 grain JSPs in my EMF/Rossi M1892, Ruger GP100, and Ruger Blackhawk. I've also shot a bunch of S&B 9mmP 155 grain ball in my BHP. I have nver had an ignition problem with any of it. Sounds like you got a bad lot.

 

[HiWayMan]

Just wanted to add that my misfires also happened in a Taurus 608. This gun has about 3500 rounds thru it and the 158 gr. JSP are the only ones that have failed to fire.

 

[bountyhunter]

Must be contagious. I have fired at least 50,000 riounds of S+B in four calibers (9, 38, 40, 357) over the last five years and I had never had a single problem. In the last two weeks one of my comp guns has had two light strike misfires on 9mm SB ammo. In fairness, it is a reduced power hammer spring, but it had never done it before. It's possible S+B got some primers a shade on the stiff side. If your gun has stock springs, it should still set them off pretty easily. Both of my misfires went off on the next whack in the same gun so it is just barely not firing them.

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

bountyhunter. The light strike/hard primer is exactly what I experienced. One more go at it sent the projectile down range. So, since my revo does not appear to be a light stirker, I am betting on the "stiff" primers. Thanks for responding.