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CCI Mini-Mag .22 LR Target

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At the range today, I ran 200 rounds of the stuff through my trusty Ruger MkIII. 18 duds !! :eek: I thought I must have broken the firing pin. So, just to be sure, I fired about 150 rounds of bulk Remington Thunderbolt . Zero duds. What the heck !!! Anyone else experienced less then stellar performance with the CCI ammo ?? :D
 
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Narragansett said:
I could not comment on the CCI issue, but IMO there is nothing in this world worse than a Remington Thunderbolt for reliability and extreme leading. Key holing included.

Just my .02:)
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I have experienced the same as you. Lots of misfires with Thunderduds. Last year I bought a 550 count of Winchester HP ammo. Never had such horrible results. Many different firearms and about 1 in 6 failed to fire. Absolutely horrible. However, since I have shot up 2 other 550 count Winchesters with excellent results. Just a bad batch.
 
Narragansett said:
I could not comment on the CCI issue, but IMO there is nothing in this world worse than a Remington Thunderbolt for reliability and extreme leading. Key holing include

Just my .02:)
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My Ruger is a garbage eater. My comparison is meant to show the CCI problem; if Thunderbolts work fine, then what's up with the CCI stuff. And yes, I agree about the Thunderbolts in general.:D
 
Regret to report that I’ve had Duds in my new Ruger LCP 22.
The little Ruger performs near perfect except for the Fails to Fire.
The Dud Ammo does include several CCI flavors.
And I’m a Big Time CCI Fanboy!
Don’t think I’ve had any with the over the top Federal Punch, 30 cents a round.
But have only fired 20-30 in the Ruger.
 
I recently tried some of my newer stock of CCI Mini Mags (the 100 round boxes with the new graphics) during a plate shoot. With the new stuff I had all kinds of FTF and jams in both my pistol (model 41) and rifle (10/22). When I switched back to the old stock everything worked again. Both were the 40 grain 1235 fps round nose.

Out of curiosity I tried rounds from several different boxes from two different cases of the new stuff with the same result. Tried the same with old stock and had no issues. Maybe the increased production is causing QC issues at CCI.
 
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I shoot Steel Challenge RFRO and RFPO about once a month and .22LR CCI Mini Mags is about all I ever use. I've never had a dud yet using them.

Now Herter's and Federal Auto Match ammo have let me down.
 
I do believe that cci quality control has gone downhill in the past few years. I’d rather grab up some of the older cci like blazer in the silver and black boxes or the standard velocity in the navy blue boxes than the newer light blue.


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Last time at range had same FTF with CCI. First time ever with CCI. Wont buy Win. or Rem. anymore as they are Terrible. Glad I have enough old stock to last.
 
I use a fair bit of both the CCI Stnd Velo & the Mini Mags and can't say that I've ever had any problems with either. I hope it stays that way.
 
Don't have any of the new label Mini-Mags. Seen them but have enough older stock on hand that I haven't bought any. Don't recall any failure to fire with the Mini-Mags previously. Only have one .22lr semi-auto pistol, a Ruger SR22, and it is not picky with ammo. M&P 15-22 and Marlin Model 60 are not picky. All other .22s I have are not semi-automatics.

By the way saw some Federal Bulk at Walmart today. 325 rounds for around $21. Already have a couple of boxes so didn't buy any. Hopefully it will go to some deserving kid for Christmas.
 
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Now I'm scared. My family recently did a 5K bulk buy of new production Minimags. I've got 2500 on the shelf.

I've still got over 3K of old stock so I haven't shot any of it yet. I don't get to the range much during hunting season.

I will shoot some asap and post a range report.
 
I recently had similar results with Mini Mags. I had just installed a reduced-power striker spring in my G44 and attributed it to that. They didn’t fire with a second strike, and the first strike didn’t look that weak. Maybe it was the ammo. About 2 or 3 of 100 didn’t fire.
 
The ammo industry has been consolidating recently. Vista Outdoors, the company that owns CCI also owns Federal, Remington, Speer and possibly some other brands I forgot. I was hoping they would be a hands off parent corporation but maybe they are pressuring CCI to reduce their costs and quality is suffering.

Best case is Vista is a hands off parent company and this is a fluke due to high demand and labor shortages.

Worst case would be Vista using the same production line that makes Thunderduds to make "CCI" MiniMags.

Let's hope for the best.
 
I shoot a fair bit of CCI Std Vel, and haven't noticed any issues with the newer production stuff.
 
I just shot 100 rounds of this CCI Mini-Mag 40-gr solid "Target" ammo (and a bit more than that of other ammo) through a new Ruger LCP II .22 a week and a half ago, and experienced one failure to fire on the first or second strike. It fired on the third strike.

That improperly primed round struck both me and my friend as unusual from CCI. I actually have a photo after the first two strikes didn't work.

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During the firing of the second 100 rounds that afternoon, I also had a failure to fire on the first strike of a round of Aguila Super Extra - this round fired on the second strike.

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I have a lot of CCI mini mags and tactical 22LR ammo made about 3 years ago and not one bad round yet.They've worked every squeeze of the trigger.
I shot them in an S&W 15-22 25 rd mags and a Ruger SR22 10 rd mags.
 
Narragansett said:
I could not comment on the CCI issue, but IMO there is nothing in this world worse than a Remington Thunderbolt for reliability and extreme leading. Key holing included.

Just my .02:)
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I wonder whether Thunderbolt ammo was improved or corrected at some point. During the beginning of the latest shortage, my LGS got some in, and I bought quite a few bricks, at a good price, no less. I'm not sure that I have had any misfires, and I have had no failures to feed in any of my pistols, and fairly good accuracy, not that I am the one to test it, anyway.

??
 
Birdhunter6 said:
Now I'm scared. My family recently did a 5K bulk buy of new production Minimags. I've got 2500 on the shelf.

I've still got over 3K of old stock so I haven't shot any of it yet. I don't get to the range much during hunting season.

I will shoot some asap and post a range report.
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If you were to test some of your older stock as well... That would just be
great! Be sure to see if the ones you test all happen to be in the same production lot, please!:)

Thanks!
 
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