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Misfire
- Thread starter pwillie
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shootniron
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Sounds like light strikes to me...JMO
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To answer your question, yes. Most often with rimfire ammo.
Couple things to check.
First, are the impressions made the firing pin deep and well defined? Or are they shallow and kind of wimpy?
If so, that indicates a weak firing pin strike.
A weak firing pin strike can be caused by a weak firing pin spring (hammer spring if so made) or the firing pin can be obstructed partially by congealed lubrication and gunk. Cleaning the gun can never hurt, right? In some very rare cases, the firing pin can break off and still be long enough to fire sometimes.
If the firing pin strike looks deep and sharp, the ammo is suspect. Ammo companies go to great lengths to make their product reliable. No one is going to purchase ammo that isn't going to fire on demand. Usually when it happens, it's a bad lot or short run that got by the quality control people at the factory.
If you know someone with a rifle of the same caliber, you might have them try some of that ammo. If the ammo works in their rifle, it's your rifle. If the ammo doesn't work in their rifle either, it's the ammo.
Good luck. I've had it happen and I find it frustrating.
To answer your question, yes. Most often with rimfire ammo.
Couple things to check.
First, are the impressions made the firing pin deep and well defined? Or are they shallow and kind of wimpy?
If so, that indicates a weak firing pin strike.
A weak firing pin strike can be caused by a weak firing pin spring (hammer spring if so made) or the firing pin can be obstructed partially by congealed lubrication and gunk. Cleaning the gun can never hurt, right? In some very rare cases, the firing pin can break off and still be long enough to fire sometimes.
If the firing pin strike looks deep and sharp, the ammo is suspect. Ammo companies go to great lengths to make their product reliable. No one is going to purchase ammo that isn't going to fire on demand. Usually when it happens, it's a bad lot or short run that got by the quality control people at the factory.
If you know someone with a rifle of the same caliber, you might have them try some of that ammo. If the ammo works in their rifle, it's your rifle. If the ammo doesn't work in their rifle either, it's the ammo.
Good luck. I've had it happen and I find it frustrating.
The pin strike looked as hard as the ones that fired...and this was 25-06 factory Nosler
Doesn't mean anything, you could be having primer strikes that are "just enough" to set some off and not set the others off. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. If you have another gun in that caliber you can put the fired cases in that rifle, dry fire it, and compare the new primer strike to how it looked before.
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Archie
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To answer your question, yes. Most often with rimfire ammo.
Couple things to check.
First, are the impressions made the firing pin deep and well defined? Or are they shallow and kind of wimpy?
If so, that indicates a weak firing pin strike.
A weak firing pin strike can be caused by a weak firing pin spring (hammer spring if so made) or the firing pin can be obstructed partially by congealed lubrication and gunk. Cleaning the gun can never hurt, right? In some very rare cases, the firing pin can break off and still be long enough to fire sometimes.
If the firing pin strike looks deep and sharp, the ammo is suspect. Ammo companies go to great lengths to make their product reliable. No one is going to purchase ammo that isn't going to fire on demand. Usually when it happens, it's a bad lot or short run that got by the quality control people at the factory.
If you know someone with a rifle of the same caliber, you might have them try some of that ammo. If the ammo works in their rifle, it's your rifle. If the ammo doesn't work in their rifle either, it's the ammo.
Good luck. I've had it happen and I find it frustrating.
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Good post Archie!
Also pwillie, did you contact Nosler about this?
You also mentioned that you've had misfires before? In the same rifle?
Disassemble and clean the bolt.
I had a Remmy 721 that had ...... issues. Cleaning solved them.
the firing pin can be obstructed partially by congealed lubrication and gunk.
I had a Remmy 721 that had ...... issues. Cleaning solved them.
Every ammo manufacturer has loaded rounds with no powder, no flash hole in the case and defective primers or primers inserted backwards. All of them. To believe that any brand of factory ammo is 100% reliable is absurd. That's why I love the ridiculous discussions about carrying factory ammo or handloads for defense. If people only knew what they were buying.