Wheelbarrow wrote:How far down the case do the powder marks go?
Just a mm or two or near full length?
From memory over half way
Wheelbarrow wrote:How far down the case do the powder marks go?
Just a mm or two or near full length?
BBJ wrote:More that half would be a lot. Typically it would be 2mm or so.
A bit of guesswork here as not intimately familiar with the specific rifle and ammunition but it sounds like excess headspace could be the issue.
It would explain the damaged brass, and the carbon making its way down the outside of the cases could/would be due to insufficient pressure to expand the brass to the chamber wall and seal it off against it which would be related.
I would take NIOA up on their offer to inspect.
RDobber wrote:So did he actually send it to NIOA or just shot it once himself and decided CBF with anything more?
WTF
rsj223 wrote:RDobber wrote:So did he actually send it to NIOA or just shot it once himself and decided CBF with anything more?
WTF
From what he told me he took it out fired a heap through it and nothing went wrong, did not send it off.
I sent emails to NIOA and Ruger (USA) late last week but nothing back yet.
User received face full of gas and unburnt powder upon cartridge failure, safety port did not prevent this occuring. I, <name>.... inspected the gun and find nothing wrong with it. Signed...<name>... __/8/2015
rsj223 wrote:I'm thinking the LGS just wanted to give my money back just to get rid of me so to say, will have to wait to see what the fella from NIOA has to say when he calls back.
The Brass wrote:I suppose it's possible you got a particularly bad round, combined with the gap made it a bit more dramatic than a regular failed .22 round would have been.
Yes they can fail, nothing's perfect, but it's not a weekly occurrence. Personally I've never had one fail in thousands of rounds.
Don't lose heart with it just yet is all I'm saying. It's possible if not probably you may never have the issue again. Just happened of all the places you could have got a failed round you got it at the front of the queue. Just my 2c