Santa2512
Well-known member
Well I'm very disappointed with Fiocchi,
Disastrous afternoons shooting on Friday afternoon at Southdown, courtesy of Fiocchi FBlack fibre
Thought i'd kill two birds with one stone, Get some more cartridges for the weekend, and have a quick afternoons shooting to boot.
How wrong was i !!
Spotted some Fiocchi Fblacks in Fibre in the Shop, so grabbed 300
Plan was 2 rounds of skeet, ad 50 bird sporting down the lane
The skeet went fine, if i can get lead on the clay's they break everytime, Just need a bit of work on hold points
So moved onto the sporting and as i'd used the 2 loose boxes of 25, i broke open the slab
Have to say i had reservations about shooting on the lane,
on the field on the right were two tractors harvesting, so shooting at clay's with tractors & people behind, wasn't something i was going to do, so i shot everything on the LH side of the lane
First stand some crossers, so i shot about 10 and move onto the next stand ,
A nice stand, a std L/R & a std going away
The LR went OK, but missed the going away, so i opened the gun and popped in the next pair of carts.
I thought the cart in the lower barrel was odd when i put in it,, but couldn't say what, but it felt odd.
Called the bird, pulled the trigger and PHUT!, a small wisp of smoke out of the breech by the fence, and some Browny yellow smoke out of the barrel ....
Uh oh, something very wrong... waited 10 seconds and opened the gun,. the cart ejected cleanly and a lot of smoke came out ....
Looked down the barrel, and yup as i thought, a wad jammed just past the end of the fore-end .. Now that's not good...
So clever head on, i thought about how do i get rid of a stuck wad... Easy i thought, I'll pop another shell in and use that to clear the blockage
Behave!!!!! did you think i was that daft.
No i closed the gun, and started the walk back up the lane thinking how was i going to get the wad out ...
The shop was great, they had a cleaning rod, and popped the wad out, and checked the barrel over,
All given a clean bill of health, genuinely concerned of the problem, as they'd never seen it on an F Black.
So wanting to make sure all was OK, i went out to put some more carts though it.
Rather than walk down the lane, i walked back round to the skeet. As it was, there was a guy shooting, and i joined him for a round.
Stand 1 and 2 fine no problem. Loaded and called the high bird for stand 3 pulled the trigger and click, Bugger not again !!
Waited 10 secs, opened the gun grabbed the cart, and saw a wad stuck in the end of the cartridge, looked down the bore, only to be greeted with a another stuck wad, and a pile of unburnt powder as it entered the forcing cone...
Now seriously peed off i walked back to the shop.
They couldn't believe it, and managed to get the wad and powder out of the breech, they took pictures and got on the phone to discuss the matter with I'm guessing, the Fiocchi rep.
Looking at the batch numbers of the carts, all were the same batch, so it looks like either a QC issue with the powder, or the assembly of the cartridges...
So by this time I'm very unhappy with the Fblacks, and don't want them, i cant keep having this uncertainty everytime i pull the trigger, not to mention the hassle of getting a jammed wad out everytime .
The shop were really understanding and immediately swapped the whole lot without question for an alternative fibre brand.
Just to make sure it wasn't the gun i went back over to the skeet and shot another round... All Ok with no problems, ( well apart from missing .)
So my faith in premium brand cartridges is a bit dented at the mo , I've emailed Fiocchi with the info, lets see whats they say
:santa:
Disastrous afternoons shooting on Friday afternoon at Southdown, courtesy of Fiocchi FBlack fibre
Thought i'd kill two birds with one stone, Get some more cartridges for the weekend, and have a quick afternoons shooting to boot.
How wrong was i !!
Spotted some Fiocchi Fblacks in Fibre in the Shop, so grabbed 300
Plan was 2 rounds of skeet, ad 50 bird sporting down the lane
The skeet went fine, if i can get lead on the clay's they break everytime, Just need a bit of work on hold points
So moved onto the sporting and as i'd used the 2 loose boxes of 25, i broke open the slab
Have to say i had reservations about shooting on the lane,
on the field on the right were two tractors harvesting, so shooting at clay's with tractors & people behind, wasn't something i was going to do, so i shot everything on the LH side of the lane
First stand some crossers, so i shot about 10 and move onto the next stand ,
A nice stand, a std L/R & a std going away
The LR went OK, but missed the going away, so i opened the gun and popped in the next pair of carts.
I thought the cart in the lower barrel was odd when i put in it,, but couldn't say what, but it felt odd.
Called the bird, pulled the trigger and PHUT!, a small wisp of smoke out of the breech by the fence, and some Browny yellow smoke out of the barrel ....
Uh oh, something very wrong... waited 10 seconds and opened the gun,. the cart ejected cleanly and a lot of smoke came out ....
Looked down the barrel, and yup as i thought, a wad jammed just past the end of the fore-end .. Now that's not good...
So clever head on, i thought about how do i get rid of a stuck wad... Easy i thought, I'll pop another shell in and use that to clear the blockage
Behave!!!!! did you think i was that daft.
No i closed the gun, and started the walk back up the lane thinking how was i going to get the wad out ...
The shop was great, they had a cleaning rod, and popped the wad out, and checked the barrel over,
All given a clean bill of health, genuinely concerned of the problem, as they'd never seen it on an F Black.
So wanting to make sure all was OK, i went out to put some more carts though it.
Rather than walk down the lane, i walked back round to the skeet. As it was, there was a guy shooting, and i joined him for a round.
Stand 1 and 2 fine no problem. Loaded and called the high bird for stand 3 pulled the trigger and click, Bugger not again !!
Waited 10 secs, opened the gun grabbed the cart, and saw a wad stuck in the end of the cartridge, looked down the bore, only to be greeted with a another stuck wad, and a pile of unburnt powder as it entered the forcing cone...
Now seriously peed off i walked back to the shop.
They couldn't believe it, and managed to get the wad and powder out of the breech, they took pictures and got on the phone to discuss the matter with I'm guessing, the Fiocchi rep.
Looking at the batch numbers of the carts, all were the same batch, so it looks like either a QC issue with the powder, or the assembly of the cartridges...
So by this time I'm very unhappy with the Fblacks, and don't want them, i cant keep having this uncertainty everytime i pull the trigger, not to mention the hassle of getting a jammed wad out everytime .
The shop were really understanding and immediately swapped the whole lot without question for an alternative fibre brand.
Just to make sure it wasn't the gun i went back over to the skeet and shot another round... All Ok with no problems, ( well apart from missing .)
So my faith in premium brand cartridges is a bit dented at the mo
, I've emailed Fiocchi with the info, lets see whats they say :santa:
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