.22 ammo online

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Yo ! I just picked up my first rifle (Taurus mdl 62) and would like some advice on the cheapest, cleanest, and safest .22lr I can find online. I did a search and came up with too much to sift through.

My needs are a brick of cheap, clean plinking ammo to break it in. A brick of hi-vel stuff for pest control, and uhh, another brick of quality plinking ammo that won't foul up my gun. TIA.
 
MTAA,

I've found that for .22 it is usually better to get it from a local source. The shipping charges will eat you alive. While it might make sense on a big (500-1000) round order of centerfire ammo that costs .15/round, an extra .005/round shipping isn't a big deal. But with a .22 costing about $10/brick locally, even if you save $2/brick on the cost it will usually cost you at least $5 to ship it making it $3 more expensive.

Hope you can figure out my early morning math,

Greg
 
CCI Mini Mags have been the most consistant shells I've used. .22's are fickle critters though. If you're lucky, a good clean burner like CCI or Federal will work best. If not, then you could be stuck in Thunderbolt he11, like my wife is with her Winchester Trapper. Remington Thunderbolts are dirty disgusting things, but they work the best in her gun. Greg's right, online buying isn't a great deal on .22lr ammo. Generic advice is to stick to plated bullets for the first brick(500 rounds) to smooth out any rough spots in the action or barrel, then find the cheapest source for the best ammo in YOUR gun. I tried some expensive match ammo in my Ruger Mark II that was like $9.00 a box of 50, only to have Winchester Dynapoints at $7.99 a brick shoot rings around it.
Also, when you find a load your gun loves, not likes, but loves,,,you'll know the difference,, buy as much of that lot number as you can afford. Stop thinking brick, and start thinking case(s).Even casual use of a .22, like an afternoon of shooting, means a couple bricks. I plan on a brick an hour when I shoot. The absoulte worst possible thing that you can do is have to go home before time runs out because you ran out of ammo. :(
You'll see.LOL! Oh yeah, you'll see. Not to worry though, gettin there is the fun part ;)
 
Now what about keeping this thing clean ? I've heard all sorts of strange stories about .22's, some have gone so far as to say just shooting the gun keeps it clean ? Any truth to that ?
 
Depends on what you're running through it. If you're buying the more expensive match grade fodder, like Eley, RWS, Federal 900, Lapua, Fiocchi, and the like, they all have a bunch of parrafin wax-like lube that will deposit down the bore. Cleaning the barrel will actually remove this accumulation, and may send your first few post-cleaning rounds away from the intended point of aim. Hence, many target and BR-50 .22 rimfire shooters avoid cleaning their guns too much.

I'm in a bit of a pickle with mine, I run a Gewehr98 assembled heavy-barreled 10/22 FrankenRuger, and it LOVES Eley Target Rifle, RWS Target Rifle, and PMC Scoremaster. But it's a blowback autoloader, which eventually soots and gunks up the chamber and action, causing balky operation after just a few hundred rounds. So I clean it, but then I can guarantee that my first several rounds aren't gonna go where the crosshairs say they should, until the bore is properly fouled again.

As for online ammo, I buy most of mine from cheaperthandirt.com. I recently tried some of the Winchester Supreme Match ammo, and it worked very well, definitely sub 1/2" at 50 yards. At $4.90 per box of 50 rounds, it wasn't the cheapest stuff, but it wasn't quite as expensive as Federal Ultramatch, either.

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