OK. I know what you are thinking. How can you have a disaster using snap caps? Well here's how:
Recently I have been doing more dry fire practice and I got to worrying about damaging my Ruger Mark IV, so after getting some advice here on the forums I ordered a box of .22LR snap caps. Atac Pro .22LR Rimfire Snap Caps
https://www.amazon.com/Atac-Snap-22Cal- ... +snap+caps
They arrived this week and and I tried them out, but was disappointed with them. The first couple worked OK but the rest started jamming and would not feed into the chamber. I wrote them off as unusable.
Fast forward to today when I was at the range for my weekly practice session. I had some new ammo to try out. Normally I use CCI but today I had some Winchester that I bought because it was less expensive. I load up my magazine, rack the slide, and the first bullet jams and won't go in the chamber. I set it aside. The second bullet won't go in either, nor the third or fourth. I unload the magazine and think to myself that my gun just doesn't like the Winchester. So then I try CCI and it jams too!
Now I start thinking clearly, so I take the gun apart (Thank you Mark IV for being easy) and look into the chamber. It's dark. I can't see through the barrel, so clearly something is blocking the bore. If the blockage had been just a little farther up, I might have been able to chamber a live round and then would have had an explosion on my hands when I pulled the trigger!
So I packed up and came on home, got a cleaning rod, and sure enough when I put in down the bore and gave it a good pop with my hand, out comes an Atac snap cap.
Moral of the story: If you ever have a failure to feed, even with snap caps, check the bore for obstructions immediately.
Also, don't use Atac Pro snap caps.
Atac snap caps and a near disaster
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