Aguila .22 sticks in mag

[Munchkin53]

New member, thanks for adding me. I bought 500 rounds of Aguila 40 grain .22 ammo for my Buck Mark pistol. There's a sticky film on them that prevents them from forwarding into battery from the mag. All 3 of my mags and the Buck Mark, are clean, and other brands feed flawlessly. Any ideas on "mass cleaning", to avoid cleaning each individual bullet? They are accurate and sell at a good price so would like to buy more.
Paul
Munchkin53

 

[LCazador]

I doubt that's your problem. The Aguila ammo is probably slightly larger in diameter or maybe longer. Just sell the ammo and purchase what works in your firearm. It'll probably work perfectly in a revolver. You can ship ammo UPS, attach a hazard label and box it up in a strong box. Welcome to the forum!

 

[Brians356]

Since you declare the sticky film is the culprit, you must have cleaned at least one and verified that it fixed the problem. Yes?
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[Munchkin53]

I doubt that's your problem. The Aguila ammo is probably slightly larger in diameter or maybe longer. Just sell the ammo and purchase what works in your firearm. It'll probably work perfectly in a revolver. You can ship ammo UPS, attach a hazard label and box it up in a strong box. Welcome to the forum!

I did hand clean (dry wiped) 30 rounds and loaded the mags. I hand cycled all 3 mags without any problem. Next range day I'll test fire. I do have a Wrangler and single shot rifle I could use them in. Saving a few dollars on ammo, isn't worth my time cleaning. Thanks for the input.

Since you declare the sticky film is the culprit, you must have cleaned at least one and verified that it fixed the problem. Yes?
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I did a visual inspection of the 3 mags. No debris seen or felt. Springs are firm and compress without obstruction or resistance. With mag out of the gun, I can manually unload the mag and the bullets fail to advance the following bullets. This does not happen with "clean" Aguila, or other .22 brands I've tried (CCI,Federal, and even Thunderbolt).

 

[butchlambert]

I have had excellent luck with Aguila 22RF. Lay them on a towel or cloth and clean them with brake clean.

 

[JEFFPPC]

I hope your correct. If you get on Rimfire Central and view the hundreds of posts on failure to cycle in Buckmarks , Rugers, and Smith and Wesson semi rim fire handguns you will see it might not be an ammo problem. I have a Buckmark, very accurate, very unreliable . It's had all its parts replaced, it's still good for plinking cans but that's about it. Then there is my buddies new 41 Smith. Barrel had bad riflleing and keyholed every round, 100 percent. Plus never recycled properly one time. Sent it back, new barrel has similar problems. So his brand new 41 is going for an aftermarket barrel liner after 8 shots. Lots of pretty but unreliable junk being peddled to us.I just competed in a league. Every domestic rim fire handgun was load with aftermarket parts in hope of reliability. Some now work after several hundred dollars of replacement parts but some are still unreliable.