What .22LR ammo are you guys using? Is there an appreciable difference between more expensive "match" ammo and the bulk stuff? What is your favorite bulk ammo? Favorite match grade ammo? Source for match grade ammo?
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What .22LR ammo are you guys using? Is there an appreciable difference between more expensive "match" ammo and the bulk stuff? What is your favorite bulk ammo? Favorite match grade ammo? Source for match grade ammo?
I bullet-hose the bulk stuff, and have been living off massive scores of Rem. Golden Bullet and Federal Brown Box. My favorite bulk box is what I can find inexpensively, which means I haven't bought any 22 since the ammo panic started. I scored about 30,000 rounds of the federal bulk from Cabelas during a good sale in 2011 at 3.1 cents a round, though I sold most of that off in 2013.
I'm still waiting for good pricing and availability for bulk to return before I'll stock up again. Got nothing to offer on match loads for you, sorry.
What kind of shooting are you doing, competition, plinking etc? Bulk packs / what ever we find is what we shoot. Been hoarding 22 as other factory ammo since the early 2K's Some of it still has Long's Drug $1.25 stickers on it.
Eley, Lapua, SK, Wolf and the like have their place if your interest is precision shooting. I shoot 10 rounds of Eley for every round of bulk blaster. Good stuff is not hard to find, but it is expensive. I've had good luck with Eley Target on the cheap end. It'll shoot into 1 moa in my Savage FV. If you spend more, you'll likely get better results, though there is no guarantee.
What is this mythical .22LR you speak of?
I like plain old CCI Blazers. It was relatively cheap and feeds reliably in every .22 I own. Good thing I had a good supply before this craziness hit. Never tried any match ammo since I don't shoot for groups when plinking. Of course at today's prices I guess I'd opt for match ammo if I were desperate enough to buy .22LR since the price is all basically the same whether you're buying bulk or match.
For blasting ammo, whatever I find, for more precision work, I shoot Eley Edge in my Savage FVSR. It's spendy but is extremely accurate in that little rifle.
The cheap stuff, never more than $0.06. It is plentiful again. Every Wallyworld has it day of the week. I just plink in the forest.
While I don't much like it, I try to shoot Remington Golden Bullets in practice/plinking because it was cheap and has some duds, but I won't shoot it in a match. Winchester M22 is one of my favorites. I tried the match stuff, and frankly, I can get between 1 and 1.5 MOA at 100 yards with most bulk stuff so the match stuff is just added $ since I am not shooting Olympic style or going sub 1/2 MOA.
I've used match grade ammo and regular OTC ammo when shooting NRA Sectionals. A lot depends on what kind of shooter you are. If you're a competition level shooter, using match grade may make the difference between getting a 10 and getting an X -- and that's important. The match grade stuff typically has a bit tighter consistency and that's everything when you're looking to shoot over 1590 out of 1600 points and counting X's. While I was pretty good, CCI Blazer or even Remington green box were good enough for me. Today, I'd use Blazer, Federal or Aguila. If I thought I was in competition for a medal at Camp Perry, I'd probably go ahead and pay the squeeze to get Eley.
Not every Walmart... I haven't actually seen any 22lr in any store I have checked in over 2 years!Quote:
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Any other input?
Just got 500 rounds of this, I check back after I get a chance to run it.
http://media.midwayusa.com/productim...940/940222.jpg
SuperiorDG, that stuff hammered in my 40X with the stock barrel. I'll report how it shoots in the new Lilja after Tuesday night at the OTC. I also shot a group with it in Hoser's 40X, and it put 5 shots nearly through the same hole at 50m.
Badger, I've gotten a lot of Eley here:
http://www.killoughshootingsports.co...eley/edge.html
and here:
http://www.brunoshooters.com/Merchan...gory_Code=32EW
Thanks Tim and everyone else for the input. I'm pretty new at the .22lr game with anything other than bulk ammo.
HB, drop me a PM. We'll hit the range sometime with my Win 52s and Kimber 82s and you can get the feel of plugging A-17s with them.
All I want, is to buy 2,000,000 rounds of bulk pack 22 at .02/round, so i can resell it, for between .03 and .04/round. Is that so wrong?
ETA: I got $100k cash to buy 5,000,000 rounds of it at that price, if necessary.
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This is good advise, I've seen it personally in my rifle, you won't get the best out of any 1 ammo if you don't clean the lube from the last kind out first. Especially when switching between ammo with completely different lubes like Eley Match and Edge
Also another source for Match ammo
http://www.champchoice.com/store/main.aspx
I've seen Eley match from a certain lot outshoot Eley tenex . Not sure spending more is always worth it. There is a rumor about Eley. All the ammo is made the same, they sort it after for consistancy into groups like Club, Match, and Tenex.
In my somewhat limited experience, CCI std. velocity is about as good as most match stuff. I'd heard that from a quite accomplished bullseye shooter. I experimented on my own and found that to be the case. Of course, it IS gun specific, like all ammo. I didn't Ransom Rest it, and that would be the acid test. That and different guns. There is a vastly different smell to some of the ammo, that's for sure. Wolf Match smells totally different than anything else. It shot almost as good as the CCI from my Hammerli. I don't shoot match .22 in rifle. It would be fun, though. If I had a match grade rifle, I'd certainly try it!
Hmmm, maybe I need a new rifle.......yeah!
Like Super GlueQuote:
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