H&R ultra slugger 20ga.

[QuintonZ29]

I have had an H&R ultra slugger 20ga. for the last 3 years....I started out shooting the lightfield 20ga slugs and switched to the hornady 250 grain slugs to increase my bullet speed by 300 ft per sec...so they say..(1500 to 1800) I sighted in this gun and had no problem with the bullets at that time..I liked the groups they were giving me and I killed a deer with them...while I was sighting them in I pulled the trigger and "click" no boom...hmmm thats wierd I said...pulled the hammer back and then it went off on second try....never thought too much about it because it never happened again...until....pulled the trigger in the woods on a deer and "click" the deer ran away on the noise and I was ready to throw the gun out...Called some people and they said"oh yea those guns have had problems with miss fires and to send it back and they will fix it"....well silly me I didnt do that during the summer months and just thought it could have been a bad box of shells with deep seated primers...so off to Dicks and buying more boxes of shells...other day I was shooting my gun before I leave for Va on a hunt and first shell "Click" tried this 5 times on the same shell...the hammer only barley dents the primer...another shell "click" and so on for a whole box of shells... ten shells later I got one to go off...ok I know I have a problem with this gun and these shells...theres no way i'm getting it fixed before my trip so I called my friend who has the same gun and borrowed it...he shoots the lightfield slugs out of his...wanting to switch to the hornady...I now have 9 boxes of hornady so I was going to sight his gun in with the hornady and use it and then give him al my boxes for letting me use his gun.. I took one shot with the lightfield and dead on...I shot a hornady and gun goes off and a little high..expexted ..but now I know its my gun thats screwed...ok so now second hornady..."click" "click" click" wont go off out of his gun....I tried several more hornady and got the same affect out of his gun!!!!!!!!!! now is it the gun or the shells!!!!!!! I put in the lightfields and right back on track....so now i try a lightfield out of my suposed broken gun...bang! bang! bang! twelve shells later and right on with no miss fires!!!!!!!!!! now i'm going to be able to use my gun with the lightfield slugs on my trip...but now i have all these boxes of hornady's and a problem with them and my gun...so is it my gun or just the shells? do I send my gun out after the season or just keep shooting the lightfields and eat the $90 in shells? My question is this, has anyone else have this problem or heard of it? If so what did you do? what would you do? Do I call H&R or Hornady? I called local gun shops and they said they never heard of this....?????????

[RUSS0079]

Quinton,
I would contact both. Hornady will probably take your rounds back and refund your money or give you different rounds to try. I've used them for reloading supplies for years and they seem very helpful when customers are not satisfied. I would tell H&R also. Your spring for the firing pin may be defective. Stranger things have happened. I had a peach of a grouse gun, then one day, click on a going away bird, nothing. Needed new springs. Hammer would fall, would not strike the primer enough. Depending on how much you shoot the gun, the recoil may have effected the springs. But I think H&R would do what ever to keep you happy. My two cents.
Russ

[QuintonZ29]

I called H&R and she told me to send the gun back so they can check it out..they wil fix it if there is a problem...(4-5 weeks) She told me this is the first she heard of it....I'm gonna use the lightfield slugs to finish tis seaosn and send it back after I guess....

[H&R slugger]

its the hornady's. ive read several reports that they seat the primers pretty deep. just compare one with a lightfield and you'll see the difference. also check the spent casings. if you look at the lightfield you'll see that theres a nice deep primer shot. now look at the sst, its not near as deep as on the lightfield casing. i have the ultra-slugger in 12 ga. had a missfire. put the same shell in my mossberg and it still missfired. i love the sst's. supposedly they addressed the problem. now i bought some about a month ago (5boxes). and not a single missfire. i also have an H&R 3-1/2" turkey gun. shot many different makes and types of shells. and not a single missfire
hey those ultra-sluggers are tack drivers arent they. i love mine

[QuintonZ29]

I will be calling Hornady next...good to hear i'm not the only one who had this problem with these shells...as far as they fixed the problem...I bought a couple new boxes this year and had the same problem..it might be that thye were old when they were sold to me....i'll see what Hornady has to say...love the gun also..shoots so nice and joy to shoot, without the major recoil kicking your a$$ after a couple shots...

[Pa Poorboy]

I had the same problem with the hornadys 2 out of 10 did not go off the primers looked like they were hit good.I swithed to remington coppers they have not been a problem and shoot good.My gun is a 12 ga. ultra slugger

[QuintonZ29]

Glad to hear it's not the gun....I almost sold it!!!!!!!!! and I love the gun...