Some issues this evening with my 15-22

[davekeller]

I decided to take my weapon out for a spin after work with a buddy and we put 850 rounds through it and sighted in my red dot, which was a blast!

However, I had a bunch of jams and misfeeds. I was using Winchester 36 grain hollow point white box 555 count. Before I fired over 200 rounds on my last visit and I was using Federal bulk and nothing went wrong at all. I even had some jam and the lead point was bent all in half with the brass. In the box I found about five sheared rounds when I was reloading mags which had me a little concerned.

It was a bit frustrating but I think it may be a combo of the new mags + ammo.

Here's a video of me shooting and I kept in some of the problems I was having towards the end of the video. I did get great at clearing bad rounds from my weapon at least, ha!

15-22 New Red Dot - YouTube

I feel like it was a combo of mags having issues and ammo. It could be how I was loading them but I was doing one at a time and making sure that they were seating upright but I was just having issues.

Also, I was wondering if it was some of the mags since this one pictured has a gap towards the back and they're new mags that I just bought from 44mag.com

[darksideemt]

You would not be the first person to say they have had issues with the winchester white box. I personally have only used federal and have never had an issue with over 1,000 rds. If you happened to load some bad rounds in the mags, which is probably what happened, would cause those issues. I would go to a different ammo, shoot like you did today and see if you have any more issues. I am no expert though, but they should be along to give their advice too.

[davekeller]

Yeah, I only got it because they were out of Federal bulk at Wal-Mart. It was more annoying that anything to be honest. I had to clear at least 20+ rounds through the entire time we were shooting which wasn't that fun.

[tork'd]

ours has never liked hollow points.. alway a problem with feed.
also , about two weeks ago SWMBO started having trouble with FTF FTE.
after a lot of frustration on her part, we started looking at the mags.
found that all the FTF FTE were on the same mag and found that same gap you point out.
you could load the mag and see the gap open up when the last 2-3 rounds are loaded. super glued the gap and the problem has not been present since.
it was also a new(er) mag from 44mag

[Majorlk]

There's nothing the matter with your magazines. I have 16 and they all look pretty much like that - and no feeding problems with any of them.

[davekeller]

I'm thinking it's the hollow point white box stuff that is the issue.

[Ghost_Soldier]

After seeing how dirty the wwb is in 9mm compared to federal and even steel cased tulammo I don't but wwb in any caliber any more. I have had some issues with hp rounds myself.

[CrazyFingers]

I've got 11,469 rounds through my 15-22, 86% of them Federal 36gr hollow points (550 round value pack). They have been extremely reliable and consistent.