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.