First for me--case head sep .22

[ceb]

Took advantage of a fairly nice day today shooting one of my Marlin 39A's. I have posted on here a while back in some of the ammo discussions about buying some of the Winchester Xpert .22s in the bulk box. I had never shot any of these, so thought I would see what they would do. Well in the first magazine tube full, about the 7th or 8th shot, I heard an odd sounding report and got some particles back in the face. Bullet made it out of the barrel, but I had to disassemble the gun to clear it. Base of the case at the rim had totally seperated from the body of the case. In the many, many thousands of .22s I shot over the years, this was a first. Course ya can't let the little things interfer with shooting, so I put er back together and went back to making holes in paper.

[J Miller]

I'm with you, I've never had that happen. I've had other kinds of splits, but never a case head separation.

Joe

[Rusty]

I think I'd be sending an e-mail to Winchester. That should be worth another box of ammo.

[adirondakjack]

If ya saved the pieces, Winchester would want to see them and the end flap off the box (with the stamped lot number). They can't fix what they don't know about. Call em up. They'll send ya a FEDEX label and eventually, some coupons for free stuff.

[Slick13]

I think I'd be sending an e-mail to Winchester. That should be worth another box of ammo.

Anybody tried contacting Winchester lately? From what I've heard on a trapshooting forum I hang out on, they are very unresponsive to complaints of faulty or defective ammo.

~Michael