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Double Fire in a 10/22 LR

ryan_marineryan_marine Member Posts: 635 ✭
edited March 2004 in Ask the Experts
I went out this evening and was shooting my 10/22 and had a double fire. This only happened once with cci stingers. I also was shooting some federal cheap stuff.($8.90 per 550) Like I said it only happened one time even though I shot up 5 more mags of the same stuff. I don't know if this was a one time event or if it will happen again. Should I take it over to the 'smiths and have him looker over or not? I didn't see anything out of the ordnairy when I took it apart but I am not a gunsmith.

Thanks

Ray

More Powder, More Lead, More Dead
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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wouldn't mess with it unless it happens again (other than giving it a good cleaning, especially around the sear area).
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    While cleaning the sear, also check the firing pin channel, bolt face recess and chamber face.
    Odds are that you ran into a thick rim and got a "slam fire". only way to know for sure what set it off, is to examine the casing of the round that doubled.

    Whittemore
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • ryan_marineryan_marine Member Posts: 635 ✭
    edited November -1
    Tailgunner, I can't find that one. I think that it is with the other 500 or so that got shot that night. Thanks for all the help though. I will take it over to the 'smiths if it happens again.

    Ray

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  • Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ray,

    I found this old thread in my files and share it again in that it may relate to your situation:

    I had a little 22 caliber Beretta pistol go off in a new car one time. I was sitting in the passenger side front seat and chambered a round from the clip by pulling the slide back and letting it go. The pistol was instinctively pointed between my feet at the floorboard. It went off shooting a hole in the floor of the car...about 1/2" from my right foot! At first I thought I must have had my finger on the trigger, but finally realized I didn't. I searched out in the grass where the empty had ejected until I found the spent case. To my surprise, there was no firing pin mark--it had detonated on the slamming of the breach! A slam-fire. I almost shot my foot with a slam-fire!

    I share this in hopes that everyone will take it in consideration when loading a gun. The trigger doesn't necessarily have to be pulled for the gun to go off. It's the reason behind the rule: Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.

    Rafter-S

    "What is truth? No wonder jesting Pilate turned away. The truth, it has a thousand faces -- show only one of them, and the whole truth flies away! But how to show the whole? That is the question."
    --Thomas Wolfe, "You Can't Go Home Again" (1934)
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  • mauser_centralmauser_central Member Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a 10/22 slam fire one time with bulk ammo. that was the 1st and last time it has done that. it left a nice little reminder hole in my work shop wall before lodging in a bench. [ very glad no one was inside ].

    I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be damn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
    John Wayne
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  • allamericanskeetallamericanskeet Member Posts: 48 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hey, in the owners manual of the ruger 10/22 it clearly says "do not use CCI STINGER ammo." that could be your problem. hope it helps and good luck on figureing out the problem

    jake lineberger
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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does it say why you shouldn't use C.C.I. Stingers? That and Blazers is all I have ever used in mine for the last 30yrs without a problem.
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  • stalion10stalion10 Member Posts: 336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ray, my question to you is. why dont you ask scott your gun smith this question, you two are good friends. any way just giving you a had time. and remember to get me one of thoughs catologes(?)
    you freind and neighbor
    ed

    it's not the type of gun you have in the heat of a battle that counts, only if you have enough ammo for it, lets face it, a gun without ammo is only as good as a base ball bat!!
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  • allamericanskeetallamericanskeet Member Posts: 48 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    the cci stinger has a longer case than standard .22 LR cartridges. but i use all kinds of other cci ammo and have no problem. but look in your owners manual on page 13. hope this helps.

    jake lineberger
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is a gunsmith who advertises to decrease the 10-22 headspace to a minimum and gain accuracy. I was considering it but now it sounds like a bad idea.
    Alternatively,maybe the Stingers give the bolt too violent a rebound and the firing pin too much forward momentum.
    A rawhide or nylon/delrin buffer might make sense.
    Chicom forces used two kinds of buffers in the same model SMG, a rawhide or a rubber one. The rubber buffer gave a higher rate of fire.
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