Anyone have a gun/ammo misfire story?

sometimes you just get a bad primer.

I reload and get them somewhat occasionally on pistol rounds.

if it were bad powder the primer would still fire and cause a squib most likely. Primers are much stronger than people think.

Benelli SBEII clicked on me on 3 different toms, I don't turkey hunt with that gun anymore

Many moons ago, my dad bought a Remington Model 11 16 gauge. It pretty much became my gun during high school.

The guy he bought it from had a lot of extra 16 gauge shells that he gave my dad because he didn't have another 16. Some of those shells were pretty old and had paper cases.

While not really a "misfire" on more more than one occasion, the paper cases ruptured causing a failure to fully eject the shell casing. In the end, we ended up ditching most of those.

When I was about 12 I had never shot a pintail always hunted the woods. We were in rice field and had our limit minus one duck. A group of pintails starts working and then a pile of other ducks. Seemed like two hundred ducks just doing it right right in front of us. Ducks were lighting all around us but the pintails were weary. Finally a big drake gets about a foot off the decoys and I go to shoot and the pellets just roll out of my barrel. My shells had gotten wet A week later we were hunting in brake and a pintail came in with a a group of mallards. I picked the pintail and rolled him up so I thought. Go thru the button willows and he is swimming off and I couldn’t get a shot on him before he got out of sight.

Would have been my first deer!! I was 12 on our family farm in Dublin GA. The year before I was lent a 30/30 and shot a spike and never found him. We had a forester working timber in late September and saw the largest buck he had ever seen. We knew there was a monster on the farm had sheds from him the year before that measured 162 net.

Our stands on the farm have long narrow shooting lanes. I was sitting with my grandpa who 2 years before had killed a 149 inch 10. I was shooting a new .243 gifted to me for my 12th bday. Turns out we picked the right stand that November morning. The monster walked out I honestly was clueless but my grandfather almost fell out the stand. He said shoot him shoot him. I pulled up put it on him real quick pulled the trigger and nothing turns out the safety was still on. I had one last chance got on him right before he left the lane and pulled the trigger. "CLICK" and it was a misfire. He walked off into the pines never to be seen again.

Forester found his sheds that spring he measured out at 179 net 14 pts. You should have seen how my grandpa talked about that deer to my dad. Oh well!

I have a huge 6pt that is at least 5 yr old. We've been trying to cull him for 3 yrs now. I had him at 60 yds last yr. When I fired it just clicked. The primer was set too deep in the casing for a proper strike. That 6pt has 9 lives!

Had an 1187 not lock the bolt and the gun fired. As i recall there was a lot of flame shooting out the breach, it was loud as F. It ended up destroying the gun as the bolt was jammed back in the receiver. Rem replaced the gun as it is common issue. I sold the replacement and went w beretta shotguns. No issues to date.

Throw away the jam master and get that boy a decent rifle.
I’ve heard of three different instances of Hornady reduced recoil in 7mm-08 not firing.

Ive got a Japanese Citori that was occasionally misfiring on the top barrel on the second shot...never on the first shot but I almost always shoot the bottom barrel first. The primer would look like it had been scratched. I replaced the firing pin and it helped but didn't fix it.

I call Browning and told them I thought the action needed to be rebuilt and the very nice person I spoke with told me if it did it would be the first one he'd seen in 30 years. I shipped it to them and got a call from the same person...apologizing....and told me that the action was indeed almost worn out completely LOL. Duck blinds will do that to a gun.

The really cool part of the story is that Browning only charged me for the parts....there was no labor charge at all because they said that action should not wear out! This is a mass produced production O/U...nothing overly fancy...I think I paid about $900 for it about 30 years ago. Entire cost of repair including shipping was less than $200 and it shoots like brand new now. Gotta love that kind of product support.

Was my second year to deer hunting at a later age, 20 years ago, had the same happen to me with a 30-06 Remington 742 Woodmaster - it was a used gun given to me by my father that he picked up at a pawn shop and he never used. I had killed a doe with it previous season, sighted it in, all with no firing issues. On a single afternoon hunt opening weekend that gun misfired, “clicked”, on a large boar hog, the largest 8 pt buck I’ve ever seen or shot at that lease in 20+ years of hunting there, at a distance of 25 yards, followed by a 4 pt that walked on the plot and the gun mis-fired 3 times on that deer. I wasn’t a kid but I was damn near in tears being new, and inexperienced in deer hunting, and never having shot a buck. I can still remember that day like it was yesterday, and for a long time my hunting buddies jokingly called me “Click”.

Back at the camp, working with rifle I was able to finally get the rifle to fire but the shell jammed and would not eject nor could I remove the spent cartridge. Brought the rifle to a local gunsmith, and he laughed when I brought it in and said another “Jammaster”. Anyway as LSUA75 described, the problem was a lightly rusty, lightly pitted throat chamber that caused the cartridge to not seat properly when closing the chamber. The chamber throat was cleaned and polished, and test fired by the gunsmith. He showed me the spent cartridge that jammed and the pitting marks in the brass from the corrosion in the throat and the pristine cartridge from his test fire after cleaning and polishing. He told me this gun model was notorious for this problem issue, and the chamber throat needed to impeccably cleaned and maintained for reliable function. Gave the gun back to my Dad and bought a bolt action. LOL

OP - sounds like a bad cartridge but I’d consider bringing the rifle to a gunsmith after the deer season is over and have them clean and polish the throat on that rifle, with instructions on how to best maintain it - just in case. Would hate to see that happen again on the buck of a lifetime, as it did for me.