[DJ Taylor]

Sometimes, when you miss out, you luck out. I haven't been able to buy any .22 LR for over a year now.

[Red Badger]

Seeing that they have no reported injuries, maybe the feds have them all................

[Blood of Tyrants]

I wish I could find some .22 LR for a reasonable price. So far everyone seems to want 15 to 20 cents a round. Before Newtown you could get it for 3 cents a round or even less.

[Starstruck]

Sometimes, when you miss out, you luck out. I haven't been able to buy any .22 LR for over a year now.

I was able to get 600 rounds but it was CCI.

[PeterPrinciple]

double-charged

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someone help me out here. There is enough room to put extra powder in there? Or the wrong formulation was put in it that had more explosive power?

[samadams2000]

Federal is the way to go. ATK stock is on a tear as well.

[yarddog]

A double charge would be catastrophic.

When I was around 12, I took a pair of pliers and pulled the bullet out of a Remington .22 LR case. I noticed it was only around two thirds full of powder.

Feeling that Remington had short changed me, I pulled a couple more and dumped enough in one to fill it. I must have been a little suspicious because I used my Brothers Remington model 513 which had dual rear locking lugs instead of my model 514 which just had the bolt handle locking it.

When I fired it, there was no hole in the board I had it pointed at, just smoke everywhere. I had to beat the bolt open and there was no case in the chamber. I have no idea what happened to it or the bullet. I did find tiny pieces of brass throughout the bolt etc. It must have literally turned the shell and bullet into gas. I still don’t know for sure what happened.

Incredibly the old Remington was undamaged. This was not a double charge but about a charge and a half.

[dangerdoc]

I ended up buying a 9mm carbine so I would have a long gun to plink with. I have some .22 ammo but I hate to use it without knowing I can replace it.

I just ain’t right.

[Fightin Whitey]

double-charged SuperDuper .22 Magnums

Does this mean I can use them in my .44 mag?

[fatboy]

This explains the smokeless powder shortage.

[DainBramage]

Hey they double charge for them so they might as well double charge them.

[Sooth2222]

I found 1000 rounds of M22 several months ago, and thought I had won the lottery! (I checked and mine isn't from the recalled batches -- it's from a run manufactured after the recalled batches -- which also suggests that the problem isn't awfully common. But no doubt Winchester will "make good" in any case.)

[ChildOfThe60s]

I bought one brick of Winchester for my Marlin 795 about 2 years ago. Horrible feed and eject problems. Ended up having to use all of it in my Ruger revolver. Imagine how long that took.

CCI and Federal are what I use now.

[caveat emptor]

Thanks for the post. Most of my 22LR are hollow point, but my last 1000 were Winchester 40 grain copper plated round nose, but not black, and were marked S22LRB.

[TurboZamboni]

double the charge-double your fun

[Sergio]

bkmk

[GeronL]

we have over a thousand rounds, guess I had better check the boxes.

[Bulwyf]

lots of .22 up here in Alberta, should go for a holiday heh.

[logi_cal869]

Thanks for the post. I just BCC’d everyone in my contacts that might have .22s.

[smokingfrog]

http://www.winchester.com/library/news/Pages/s22lrt-recall.aspx