This may be an issue, or may not, so I'm asking folks here (and at Remington):

I bought one of those 1400-round buckets of Remington .22LR hollow point (!) bullets to use in the Rossi lever-action rifle.

1) I wasn't looking closely at anything but the price, so didn't realize until the bucket was on its way to me that they were hollow-point--the size of the hollow is miniscule by comparison to the hollow points in my 147 gr. JHP 9mm stuff, of course, so I don't expect it to feed badly, but the Rossi makes it known that it doesn't like snap caps with hollow rear ends, so the first time this goes to the range will see some careful examination of how it feeds.

2) I took one round out to show my wife, comparing it to a .223 round for the AR-platform stuff, and noticed that the bullet is a little loose in the casing. It's easy to turn it, as a nut on a machine screw with close-tolerance threads, but doesn't seem to want to just fall out. I checked a few other bullets and found the same thing. Is this a hazard? If so, if I give Remington any lot number information I find on the bucket, what is Remington likely to tell me?

My local ammo sources have CCI boxes of fifty at $11-12 (22+ cents per round), or one place has a carton of 200 at $35 (17 cents a round). Even being relatively new to buying ammunition, it's hard for me to spend more than 15 cents a round for .22LR stuff.

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.22 rimfire rounds are often loose. It's not an issue, from what I've heard, and I've been shooting loose .22 rounds my whole life without incident.
-Crow

"Rossi makes it known that it doesn't like snap caps with hollow rear ends"

This has nothing to do with hollow points in the front and likely only applies to centerfire and not rimfire anyway.

Oldschool wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:16 am "Rossi makes it known that it doesn't like snap caps with hollow rear ends"

This has nothing to do with hollow points in the front and likely only applies to centerfire and not rimfire anyway.

That my Rossi (I haven't had any dialog with the company--apparently my verbiage wasn't clear on that point) doesn't like snap caps--aluminum alloy OR plastic--didn't seem to me to be about the hollow point on the bullets, which I haven't used yet, anyway. I've tried plastic and ally snap caps, and if more than one is in the tube, the first one won't feed correctly. Dump the second one from the tube, and the first one, which is part-way into the chamber, will go the rest of the way in. Because live rounds have cycled without problem, I figure that there is a physical difference between the live rounds and the snap caps, and the only significant physical difference I have noticed has been the hollow rear end of the "casing" on the dummy rounds.

Ahhhhhh

The difference may be the chunk of lead on one end. Gunsmiths know that you can't test feeding issues with snap caps. They use live ammo or cases with bullets, but no power and primer.

BearPaws wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:40 pm
My local ammo sources have CCI boxes of fifty at $11-12 (22+ cents per round), or one place has a carton of 200 at $35 (17 cents a round). Even being relatively new to buying ammunition, it's hard for me to spend more than 15 cents a round for .22LR stuff.

Have a Cabelas/Bass Pro around?..about $.11 per for CCI minimag. Saw it saturday.

https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/cci-min ... mfire-ammo

I got one of those Remington 1400 round buckets of .22 and my son and I shot about 200 rounds of it through our Mk IV yesterday without issues. It’s decent ammunition at a good price for these days at least.

Loose bullets are common in .22lr ammo, nothing to worry about there. As for the hollow point, believe it or not, that minuscule hollow point usually works on game. From experience gained about a hundred years ago, I have learned to just not shoot at game with anything but a hollow point.

As long as the bullet does not fall out your good. Thats happens with my Floberts but there ain't no powder in them.

Thanks, folks!

I've now fired a couple hundred rounds through the gun. Aside from the follower disappearing on me (I have a post about that in the "Rifles" section, if you are interested enough), the thing has been doing nicely.