Fiocchi Hull Mishap

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Over the years I've seen several threads about people having extractor issues with Fiocchi ammo in some guns but not others & I thought I would share a story that happen to my friend two days ago.

We were out shooting a round of sporting clays & had shot about four stations when all of a sudden, my friend couldn't close his Guerini O/U 28ga. On inspection he found that the shell on the lower barrel had slipped past the ejector and had chambered behind/under the ejector.

This was new primed hull on its first loading, so hull wear didn't come into play, it was a new hull from the manufacturer. The gun is in great shape & has never had a malfunction of any sort. We had a heck of a time getting this shell back past the ejector. We did so by taking the barrels off and then using a pocketknife to carefully cut a section of the case rim off to allow clearance for it to get past the ejector & pushed out with a cleaning rod.

After we got the shell removed, we took a few of the other shells from the same batch and dropped them in the gun & noticed they appeared to be a smaller diameter than the factory rim cut on the gun. We finished the round without another hitch, but now my buddy is wondering what he should do with the other hulls from this batch.

Has anyone else experienced something like this with Fiocchi hulls?