CCI Mini-Mag Squibs and Duds

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I have used CCI 0030 Mini-Mags with great results for years. When they are in stock I will by 1000 rounds (10 100 rnd boxes). Recently I have encountered duds and squibs in 3 or 4 100 rnd boxes. I was shooting them in a Browning Buckmark with a 7.25" barrel and had to drive the projectiles back to the chamber to clear the barrel. In the first box in which the problem was encountered there must have 30 squibs and 3 or 4 duds. In the box I shot today there was one dud and 4 squibs. I have 500 more rounds purchased at the same time and hopefully they will be trouble free. Has anyone come across squibs and duds with CCI 0030?
 
Call CCI, tell them your problem. they will probably send you a shipping label and make your loss good plus some in a return box. CCI does not want bad publicity on their ammo. it is usually the best 22LR ammo available! I dont recall any duds with CCI mini mags I have shot 1000's of minimags in rodent control. I have had several duds with REM!!

I have had defective shot shells from WIN and RIO both companies made good on the problem plus some! I also had some defective CCI 22mag cartridges which we sent back and they replaced plus some.

Good Luck.

Bull
 
Very unusual, indeed. I can't recall ever having a dud with MiniMags. Never have had a squib with any 22LR, even very old ammo. A squib is potentially a very dangerous event if you don't recognize it and clear it. I would have stopped after 1 squib. 30 is unheard of. Eeek! :eek:
 
Unsettling. I just yesterday bought some MM at the store while waiting for Target Sports to notify me they have case lots.
Mini Mags are best in all .22s that I shoot HV in. I cheaped out on my last purchase and got Aquila HV which is pretty good but not up to CCI.
I have a supply of CCI SV for the true target pistols.
 
I'll jump on to the "wow I'm surprised " bandwagon.
CCI MiniMag is all I've bought in years , shoot steel plate on a regular basis. Zero defects.
I guess anything is possible.
 
In all the years I have used CCI .22 rimfire ammo I can't recall a single problem with it. Definitely let CCI know about it.
 
Duds and squibs with Mini-Mags, say it isn't so! lol

They're usually the benchmark against which all other rim fires are judged.

I wouldn't shoot any more, don't want to send a second bullet behind one stuck in the barrel through an error in detection.

Agree with all the others, call them and send them back before your Buckmark is damaged.
 
That is surprising. I have never had a problem with any CCI product. Definitely call CCI.

By the way, what is the Lot Number of your ammo?
 
I too have experienced duds with Mini Mags in the last couple of months. I was VERY surprised. I just quit buying them for now. What's out there is already out there. The only reason to pay that much for HV rounds is for their reliability. I've gone to shooting Aguila HV 38gr HPs. I've only had a couple of duds and I've gone through one case of 5000 and have broken into another case. I shot a brick today without a hitch. The stuff is cheap too.
 
My experiences with CCI HV over the years has been excellent, so surprised to hear about a bad batch.

On the negative side for them was several years ago while out shooting with a friend.
He was loading 10 at a time for his Browning 1911-22 directly from the 100 rd. plastic box.
In the middle of his box, he experienced 10 duds in a row(first five of one magazine and the second five in the next magazine).
A perfect ten in a row.
I also tried them in my Colt revolver, making sure to hit a new spot on the rim - no fire.

The rest of the box was fine and we just pitched the duds and moved on, but it was the strangest
'dud .22 ammo' incident I have ever heard of, much less witnessed.

JT
 
Squibs have to be the ammo, but "duds" especially with a Buckmark can be gunk building up in the firing pin channel. My wife's Buckmark had been close to perfect for years, even with cheap bulk pack ammo, suddenly it was dud city. Took it apart and I couldn't believe the crud in the firing pin channel. Cleaned it up and perfect function for 210 rounds of bulk pack last time out.
 
wally said:
Squibs have to be the ammo, but "duds" especially with a Buckmark can be gunk building up in the firing pin channel. My wife's Buckmark had been close to perfect for years, even with cheap bulk pack ammo, suddenly it was dud city. Took it apart and I couldn't believe the crud in the firing pin channel. Cleaned it up and perfect function for 210 rounds of bulk pack last time out.
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.22s are awfully dirty for what they do.
 
I was going to leave my comments in the form of "likes" but I have to agree that many .22 problems are due to dirt under the extractor and extractor cutout and dirt around the chamber (softening the firing pin blow), as well as dirt around the firing pin. Also, dry firing can create a hollow in the chamber's edge so the firing pin's blow is softened. It could be a slightly "off" run of rounds where the error doesn't show up in their nice clean test guns, but the rounds are just at that edge of their test specs, and that "edge" is over the border for your dirty, filthy, weak-springed blunted firing pin and dirty chamber gun where the rounds don't seat properly like after firing shorts and then shooting LRs in there...

But in this case, it does sound like it just might be the ammo. =D

Terry, 230RN
 
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