Well, took my 15-22 to the range this morning along with a box of Federal Value Pack ammo. These are 36 grain hollow points with a muzzle velocity of 1260 fps. The rifle was purchased in mid April for a birthday present in May. It has a prefix of DTU and has no blue anything on it or in it. It was cleaned with Break Free. The rails down each side of the bolt, the underside of the bolt, and a spot in the upper middle face of the hammer had a wee dab of Slide Glide Lite applied.
My outing was not without incident but I don't feel it was the fault of the rifle. Out of about a hundred rounds there were 6 or 7 failure to eject. The case was extracted but then caught by the bolt as it closed. Each case was caught with about a quarter inch of the case head sticking out the ejection port.
The gun was not fired for accuracy but rather for function. As I paid close attention to the shots being fired I noticed that not all the reports were the same. Report would be consistant except for those rounds that were failures to eject and the report of these rounds were somewhat less than previous rounds. After a few of these I could tell just by the sound if the case had jammed. Also, with these quieter rounds the bolt did not come back far enough to cock the hammer. The bolt came back far enough to pick up another round however. So, it was remove the magazine, pull back the bolt, reinsert magazine and let her rip.
On the way home I stopped at Wal Mart and bought a bulk pack of Winchester Extreme HV, 36 grains at 1280 fps. I doubt 20 fps is going to make all that much difference. The Federals would have been fine if they were consistant but in all fairness, 6 out of 100 isn't a big deal since my life didn't depend on those 6 rounds.
All in all it is a great little gun and I will enjoy shooting it.
Desmond
My outing was not without incident but I don't feel it was the fault of the rifle. Out of about a hundred rounds there were 6 or 7 failure to eject. The case was extracted but then caught by the bolt as it closed. Each case was caught with about a quarter inch of the case head sticking out the ejection port.
The gun was not fired for accuracy but rather for function. As I paid close attention to the shots being fired I noticed that not all the reports were the same. Report would be consistant except for those rounds that were failures to eject and the report of these rounds were somewhat less than previous rounds. After a few of these I could tell just by the sound if the case had jammed. Also, with these quieter rounds the bolt did not come back far enough to cock the hammer. The bolt came back far enough to pick up another round however. So, it was remove the magazine, pull back the bolt, reinsert magazine and let her rip.
On the way home I stopped at Wal Mart and bought a bulk pack of Winchester Extreme HV, 36 grains at 1280 fps. I doubt 20 fps is going to make all that much difference. The Federals would have been fine if they were consistant but in all fairness, 6 out of 100 isn't a big deal since my life didn't depend on those 6 rounds.
All in all it is a great little gun and I will enjoy shooting it.
Desmond
