CCI Standard Velocity .22LR Quality?

[mr alexander]

Back in 2022, I bought two cases (10,000 rounds) of CCI Product #35.

I need to purchase some more, but am reading about quality issues

on other forums out there. An online search turned up the following:


"In late 2024, Vista Outdoor's ammunition brands, including CCI, Federal,

Remington, Speer, and Hevi-Shot, were sold to the Czechoslovak Group

(CSG) for $2.23 billion, a deal that was completed in November 2024."


Some are suggesting that the quality of this ammunition has fallen after

the sale to CSG. Have any of you had problems with CCI .22LR that was

acquired recently? This cartridge has always worked very well for me in

both a High Standard Victor and a Smith & Wesson Model 41.

[dulcmr-man]

I'm not a very good record keep-fireer so I cannot tell you what lot of CCI nor when i bought it, BUT... Lately I have had sporadic fail-to-fire, perhaps one out of one hundred with CCI SV. Sometimes I an rotate the round and get it to fire, other times not.

I've been shooting CCI SV since about 1986 and it's only lately that I've had such problems.

[Rover]

From Bill Poole:
"I have had a lot of click-no-bangs with 100 count plastic box cci sv i bought last year or the year before. More than the 1 in a hundred mentioned in one of these posts.

Rotate & try again usually works

Still too soon into the case of 50 count paper box cci sv i bought this year to confirm the problem is resolved."

I, Rover, have been having the same problem.

Try these for more comments:

https://www.bullseyeforum.net/t24571-sw ... ion-please

https://www.bullseyeforum.net/t24687-model-41-alibis

[mus]

At our club we started noticing issues (mostly failure to fire but also very inconsistent velocities) after CCI switched from the dark blue paper boxes to the lighter blue gradient ones - 2020/2021? There were a lot of complaints on the national firearms forum from others too at the time.

So I think the problems started earlier than last year or the year before.

[Rickhem]

Back in 2020, I had a case of the CCI SV ammo that I used strictly for my M41. This is a pistol that I've used for bullseye since the mid 1980s, with very, very few issues. I started getting a lot of weird alibis when using ammo from that case, with there being issues like cases not extracting, or ejecting. I had shots that were completely off call, about 4 to 6 inches low on the target, which on the 50 foot bull, is outside the black. I could feel the difference too. I cleaned the hell out of my pistol, scrubbed the chamber, disassembled and cleaned the magazines, tried different springs, but still the same thing kept happening. I would get cases that would give me that sideways stovepipe with the spent case not exiting the ejection port, and often spent cases would just dribble out of the gun and land resting on my hand holding the pistol, which is quite distracting in timed and rapid, given how hot they were. Something that has never happened to me previously. So in Jan of 2021, I wrote to CCI about it. My lot number was M04ZA02.

The rep from CCI was great about it, and agreed to exchange my ammo for another case once they received mine. I was told that my lot was made in December of 2018, and they did not show any reported issues with it when they granted my return. After they received my ammo, and they shipped me replacement ammo, I followed up with the rep and asked if they did any testing on my ammo, and what they found. He stated that it was tested, and that it was found "to have a softer case than we like to see that can cause some tougher case extractions in the more finicky firearms like you have" (that's his direct quote). Not sure how he figures my Smith 41 is a finicky firearm, but with the new ammo, function is way, way better. I do still get those failure to fire rounds occasionally, and that happens more frequently than I remember from prior decades of shooting, but only about one or two in a brick. I didn't really expect them to admit a problem, but they did replace the ammo.