Fiochhi fblu problems

[Guest]

Another top shoot at gunsite today but spoilt by 30 misfires from fblus. Shot fblus for over a year and never had a problem. They all went off but about 30 of them went with a pathetic Pop that really puts you off and sometimes didn't engage the trigger for the second barrell.

Anybody else been havin this problem?

 

[Gavin]

No long time since I used them but never had a problem with them, always found them to be a good shell, that would really piss me off

 

[shootinguru]

:fie:  sh*te happens with sh*te shells ! buy some Sportsmans at £149.50 per 1000. :crazy:

 

[westley]

Yes, I bought 1000 when I could not get my usual Hull. 500 in plastic and 500 in fibre. Due to a health problem I have been forced into using my Beretta 303 auto, which I know can be a little ammo fussy. I have suffered more cartridge jams than enough with the gun, something I do not get with Hulls. I tried them through my O/U and found both fibre and plastic to be very dirty and the 'breaks' on clays left a bit to be desired. They probably do not suit my guns so I will not be buying any more. I shot 100 of my usuals through the auto on Wednesday without a single malfunction and looking through the barrel before I cleaned it, I really could have left it uncleaned.

P.S.

I have now turned off my hearing aid off before the bombardment starts !

 

[Will Hewland]

Had exactly this problem with Power Blues from express. (More like 2 or 3 per 100) Obviously the word blu in the title isn't helping..

 

[ips]

Had same with black about a year ago returned them for different batch. I believe there was an issue with a bad batch so maybe yours is old stock. I haven't had any problems since. This doesn't help you of course and I feel for you as I lost targets during the comp I had the bad batch. As You Say a pop and what felt like the shot just rolled out the end.

 

[Santa2512]

I had my first FTF with one of my evos last time out  first time in 18 month's

Batch related problems aside, i wonder if theres a BS that applys for cartridges

:santa:

 

[Adam]

Buy Hull, problem solved !

 

[PhilS]

Never had a problem with Velocities. Just saying

 

[spuddog]

Not had a problem, shot fblue's today, bought 1000 from Blackpool sporting clays a couple of months ago. No problem, have confidence in them to do the job. Shot with some Eley VIP's as well, didn't notice any difference. Good breaks from both when I pointed the gun in the right direction.

I would suggest taking the batch back to where you bought them and change em.

 

[Darkside]

Buy Clever Mirage...

 

[EdSolomons]

Had two seperate people with issues this week one was top one, the other F blue. Must be a bad batch floating tound

 

[Paul120]

Not had any with Fiocchi recently. Worst I had was about 3 years ago when at an ABT selection shoot a Brookbank. I lost 2 targets due to having more than the allowed failures. Ended up buying a spare box of Hull to finish in the event of having 2 failures on further rounds.

 

[jwpzx9r]

Been shooting Clever T2's for about a year now 7000 cartridges and not one misfire or fail to fire great cartridges.

 

[Guest]

Phoned them today and they said they were more than happy to take them back and replace them, hopefully not from the same batch though...

 

[paul b]

I have used F blacks for the last three years and never had a misfire or dirty barrels once in my blaser F3,but I do keep them warm and dry.

 

[jwpzx9r]

I keep my carts in a spare un heated room but my working carton is always in the boot of the car... so I suppose they are cold but hey always leave the barrels spotless and I never had any problems with misfires or failures over about 7k so far to be fair during the summer it is hot here

Anyway I am outraged just now because I have just ordered a couple of thou of T2's and the bloody things have gone up by €1 a carton so the are now £ 145.50 / thou delivered 48hrs.

I have some T4 pro extra arriving tomorrow so I should be able to do a bit of a blind test at the weekend to ascertain if I can detect a difference between T2's and T4's... although the way I was shooting on Sunday it was as if I had a blindfold on!

 

[westley]

Perhaps we should wrap them lovingly in the new issue polo shirts !

 

[westley]

Well, either that or bloody cotton wool !