I recently purchased a brand new Smith&Wesson Model 317, 22 caliber revolver in July. I'm new to being a gun owner and chose the 317 as a starter for its simple design, lack of recoil, lite weight, and reasonable ammo price. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the 317 and having a good time at our local gun club range.
However, I've begun trying a variety of ammunition attempting to balance quality, performance, price and availability. There seems to be a problem shooting these 3 CCI brand products in the 317. The cylinder jams after a couple rounds. The round fires but the cylinder freezes/jams. The next round can't be fired and I'm not able to open the cylinder. The fix is to carefully use a cleaning rod down the barrel seemingly to adjust the spent shell. The cartridges seem to be of a high, consistent quality and are a very good fit when loaded. I opened the new box of CCI Blazer yesterday and tried 3 times getting jams. Another shooter gave me CCI Mini-Mags to try but this resulted in the same type jam. I switched to using Remington CBEE22 successfully firing 100 rounds without any issues at all. I experienced the same behavior on my previous outing using Velocitors. The revolver was thoroughly clean when I started and I've fired less than 1000 rounds to date.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any thoughts/suggestions regarding this situation? Thanks in advance.
Consistent jams:
CCI Blazer (brick) - lead round nose 1235 FPS 40 grain
CCI Mini-Mag HV - plated lead round nose 1235 FPS 40 grain
CCI Velocitor - copper plated hollow point 1435 FPS 40 grain
No revolver jams experienced:
Remington CBEE22 - 740 FPS 33 grain
Winchester Xpert HV (brick) - 1280 FPS 36 grains
Winchester Super X - plated hollow point 1330 FPS 37 grains
However, I've begun trying a variety of ammunition attempting to balance quality, performance, price and availability. There seems to be a problem shooting these 3 CCI brand products in the 317. The cylinder jams after a couple rounds. The round fires but the cylinder freezes/jams. The next round can't be fired and I'm not able to open the cylinder. The fix is to carefully use a cleaning rod down the barrel seemingly to adjust the spent shell. The cartridges seem to be of a high, consistent quality and are a very good fit when loaded. I opened the new box of CCI Blazer yesterday and tried 3 times getting jams. Another shooter gave me CCI Mini-Mags to try but this resulted in the same type jam. I switched to using Remington CBEE22 successfully firing 100 rounds without any issues at all. I experienced the same behavior on my previous outing using Velocitors. The revolver was thoroughly clean when I started and I've fired less than 1000 rounds to date.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any thoughts/suggestions regarding this situation? Thanks in advance.
Consistent jams:
CCI Blazer (brick) - lead round nose 1235 FPS 40 grain
CCI Mini-Mag HV - plated lead round nose 1235 FPS 40 grain
CCI Velocitor - copper plated hollow point 1435 FPS 40 grain
No revolver jams experienced:
Remington CBEE22 - 740 FPS 33 grain
Winchester Xpert HV (brick) - 1280 FPS 36 grains
Winchester Super X - plated hollow point 1330 FPS 37 grains