CSM-H
05-09-2012, 11:01
Hey to all this could be old news to some of you, but I sure didn't know it. I am presently out here in California with my brother, we were in Cedarville Ca shooting/killing ground squirrels.
I was using a 10/22 Ruger, firing the named above ammo, this was our third day of shooting, I fired two rounds and was zeroing in on a third shot and kaboom....Ruger blows the magazine out of the 10/22, fractures the extractor and cracks the stock forward and back from the receiver.
Needless to say I took immediate account of all body parts and then got a case of the ass.....One ruined rifle. Got sprayed a little and nothing else, brother says hey you want to keep shooting, oh hell yes (no I never thought about .22 ammo exploding, basically "plus-p"). He hands me his 77/22 bolt action...I fire one shot, go to fire the second shot and kaboom, "blown-up" second rifle....Never has this ever happened to me in ALL the years of .22 shooting or any other shooting, let alone twice in 10 minutes.
We are attempting to contact Winchester as we speak, if you have any of this ammunition, get rid of it...Look up "Winchester .22 ammo recall" you will see the original notice was from 2007. Our 500 round box of ammo does NOT have any of the referenced code letters as recalled ammo, this could be a new batch of defective ammo.
As this progresses I will add more information. CSM-H
PS: well we have received our first return call and of course "they" Winchester states unless we have the cartridge that was fired out (while hunting in a farmers field) of the weapon there is nothing they can do....Next level we go. Also the Carton number for this ammunition is: RCLR72A, E124821.
I was using a 10/22 Ruger, firing the named above ammo, this was our third day of shooting, I fired two rounds and was zeroing in on a third shot and kaboom....Ruger blows the magazine out of the 10/22, fractures the extractor and cracks the stock forward and back from the receiver.
Needless to say I took immediate account of all body parts and then got a case of the ass.....One ruined rifle. Got sprayed a little and nothing else, brother says hey you want to keep shooting, oh hell yes (no I never thought about .22 ammo exploding, basically "plus-p"). He hands me his 77/22 bolt action...I fire one shot, go to fire the second shot and kaboom, "blown-up" second rifle....Never has this ever happened to me in ALL the years of .22 shooting or any other shooting, let alone twice in 10 minutes.
We are attempting to contact Winchester as we speak, if you have any of this ammunition, get rid of it...Look up "Winchester .22 ammo recall" you will see the original notice was from 2007. Our 500 round box of ammo does NOT have any of the referenced code letters as recalled ammo, this could be a new batch of defective ammo.
As this progresses I will add more information. CSM-H
PS: well we have received our first return call and of course "they" Winchester states unless we have the cartridge that was fired out (while hunting in a farmers field) of the weapon there is nothing they can do....Next level we go. Also the Carton number for this ammunition is: RCLR72A, E124821.