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    Browning/Winchester .22 ammo

    Has anyone tried the Browning BPR .22 lr hp ammo. It jammed & misfired in my Nylon 66 AND my 581 bolt action. A friend brought over a Win 74 rifle with similar symptoms and the Win ammo he had looks exactly like this Browning ammo.
    By the way all guns above ran fine with CCI,Rem,Aguila&Fed ammo.
    The ammo looks normal except the hp and meplat are larger than normal.
    Anyone else experience this ammo?

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    The only thing I have found that it feeds in is a single shot that you manually feed the round into the chamber. The nose is no designed with the semi and bolt /mag fed guns in mind.
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    Absolutely bottom-grade relabeled Winchester .22LR, made for the folks who trusted the various 'puff-piece' fantasy articles published in the American Rifleman & elsewhere.
    Their marketing department figured they could make easy money by dragging the reputable name of "Browning" through the mud.

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    Yeah, I have the remains of a brick. Typical of the shortage produced junk during the last reign of terror. It’s not your guns.
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    It is Winchester ammo, and from what I have seen of it is bottom of the barrel junk

    Clean your rifle ,bolt and chamber well dirty sruff....

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    My brother bought 2 bulk packs of Browning 22lr at Cabelas a couple months ago. I have nothing
    good to say about it. We had several 22 rifles and handguns we wanted to shoot. We had jams in
    Ruger auto pistol and in a Tube fed Marlin 60 and 10/22. That wasn't the main problem, not only
    was it dirty and inaccurate, we had a very hi rate of misfires. Most went off on second try but we
    had several down right duds.

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    Well, I'm sorry to hear this. Luckily I only got 200 rds of it.
    Good thing we have .22 revolvers to use it up in.

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    These are the culprit.

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    It's sad that Winchester 22 ammo was great when I was growing up. Even the bargain price Wildcat was flawless.

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    I still have a brick of the old Wildcats. They are better than most of the junk made during the shortage, and they are 30years old.
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    Power points are my choice at the moment in my 1022 .don't see that browning stuff over here.

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    They run 100% in my Heritage Rough Rider SA revolver. Accuracy was ehh- I'll try again tomorrow. I'll drag out the Single Six and 999 Sportsman as well.

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    I too got the bulk packs from Cabela's and have had good performance with them. I have several semi-autos and it worked them all. I shoot the steel flip up targets and plates, accuracy was no worse than usual.

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    In the H&R Sportsman, they required some pressure to push into the chambers but they shot well. They won't even chamber in my flat top Single Six.
    I will keep buying CCI Mini Mags whenever I find them.

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    We shot them all yesterday.
    It was fun. Cuz tried them in his 10/22 and MK2 pistol and jamomatic symtoms occured.
    The revolvers ate them up.

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    I'm glad to know this guys. I almost bought a brick the other day. Thanks for the info on feeding and accuracy issues.

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