.22 LR reliability

[dnowell]

As others have said, 3-5% is incredibly high, even for bulk ammo. If you're getting that with CCI, and the rate of failure isn't significantly different between CCI and cheapo bulk ammo, there's probably a problem with your guns. The common issues that I've seen are a dirty firing pin channel resulting in the pin dragging, a trigger overtravel screw adjusted too tightly such that it results in the sear dragging, and modifications like significantly lightened hammers and springs. If you buy some match ammo, don't buy the green Remington stuff. It's incredibly unreliable. The brands suggested by other people here are great. Nonetheless, there's no way CCI is consistently getting 3-5% failures.

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[cryhavoc]

I shoot CCI Mini Mags in my Model 60 with no problems. I shot a brick of Blazer last week with only 2 FTF's. Sorry you are having such bad luck.

[ppkheat]

I was wondering this too. I found an old partial box of .22LR from when I was a kid (ie, it was really old!)... and it had a TON of FTFs, so many it wasn't worth the trouble and I finally just threw them out. It had been sitting in an open cardboard bulk box for a few decades, at least.

When I was a kid in the 1960's I shot a many a box of .22's, I don't ever recall one not firing. To me it was unheard of. I've had it happen in recent years so it seems something has changed though I don't have anything other than my memory to base it on. If true could it be from higher speed manufacturing? Different primer mix?

I agree with the above that age of cartridges can affect reliability, I'm sure if I had some of my leftover bullets from the 60's they'd perform poorly today.