I have 2 22 rifles one a remington single shot bolt action and a windchester pump 22. I bought a large box of remington 22 shells and several misfires occur with each rifle. Any idea what the problem may be and should I take them to a gun smith.

Thanks

Sometimes the priming material doesn't get distributed evenly around the rim of the cartridge. Many times if you rechamber the cartridge with a different part of the rim under the firing pin it will fire.

When's the last time you cleaned them?

Try different brands of ammo, this is the least expensive way to isolate the problem (because right now we don't if the problem is the gun or ammo).

Question- is the dent in the rim of the spent casings (the one caused by the firing pin) look the same in both of your rifles?

if the firing pin is putting a good mark on the cartridge, it is the ammo.

solution: change ammo.

I don't think it's ammo. I've shot about 4,000 rounds of 22lr out of my Beretta U22 NEOS with only about 10 total misfires in all. I can't believe you would have that much bad luck. It's not impossible, though, I guess.

Go to Walmart and buy a cheap $3.99 50 pack of federal and see if that works. If so, I guess you got a bad batch in your original ammo.

My guess is firing pin problems, though.

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I bought a large box of remington 22 shells and several misfires occur with each rifle.

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Lessee here: 500 rounds between two rifles, and approx. 2 misfires per rifle, or per 250 rounds. That's not an exhorbitant number of misfires for bulk Remington ammo. IOW, there might not be anything wrong with your rifles.

I would run some good ammo through them and see if the misfires continue. If they do, then you will most likely have a broken pin, a damaged pin face, broken pin spring, or just plain ol' pin channel buildup that prevents or delays pin movement.

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I don't think it's ammo. I've shot about 4,000 rounds of 22lr out of my Beretta U22 NEOS with only about 10 total misfires in all.

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That doesnt mean that he didnt get a bad batch of ammo, or more likely ammo that WAS good, but is now bad.

We were shooting some .22 (thunderbolt ammo) and the entire box minus two were duds. They had either gotten wet, or something else.

There were firing fine, but with such low velocity that you could see the bullet. Much like a old red ryder gun. We were shooting at a target 50 yards out and the bullets were hitting the dirt about half way.

Switched ammo, and no malfunctions.

If the ammo was being struck correctly, then I would tend to blame the ammo, not the gun.

I have had problems with Remmington bulk ammo as well. I have a brick that I can't wait to shoot through because it fails to fire in my Nylon 66 and Ruger MkIII about one in thirty. Federal fires just fine...can go through 500 without a misfire.

Whenever I buy the bulk pack ammo, I pretty much plan on a 10% dud rate. Anything above that and I figure I've gotten a good batch and/or lucky.

It's .22 bulk ammo - not exactly match grade stuff here.