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Old 05-25-2018, 01:59 PM
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Default Fiocchi ammo no good for Governor

I took the Governor out with some new Fiocchi Shotshells the other day, 1 out of every 6 shots had a misfire. After waiting 15 or so seconds to make sure the round wouldn't do a delayed fire, I opened the cylinder to discover that I had had a light primer strike. This had never happened with any of the Winchester shotshells I use on snakes. The 2nd time i tried to fire the ones that had light primer strikes they all went bang. The next day I fired several Federal FMJ in moon clips and all those went bang.

Upon inspecting the Fiocchi ammo comparing it to the other brands of ammo, I discovered the rim of the Fiocchi ammo is BEVELED on the side that sits against the cylinder face. The side the primer is on is squared off. On other brands of ammo i compared it to the rim is squared off on both sides, allowing perfect primer strikes.

Bottom line if you own a Governor, stay away from the Fiocchi shotshells unless you are ok with having frequent misfires.
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