.22 LR ammo

"Federal AutoMatch has also been very good but a second choice for some of my auto-loaders."

I was impressed by this ammo. I used to shoot a lot of the older
711 and some lots of it was good and some was very inconsistent.

So far all the Auto Match I have seen was good.
 
.22LR Ammo

Two years ago I cleaned up my old and reliable Remington 511 .22 bolt-action rifle with a Weaver B4 scope and headed for the range. Attached are the results of various ammo, includiong some from the 1960's shot at 50 yards. Remington ammo did pretty well! Rifle was used a lot years ago and has apparently lost some of its accuracy. Gun purchased (by me for $20.00) in 1951 from Sears in Buffal0 NY.
 

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I have just recently started shooting, and I had trouble believing that different ammo would make any difference for me, so I just got something cheap (Remmington Golden). There were no failures or obvious problems, but I did have some trouble holding really tight groups. I figured it had more to do with me being a newbie shooter than the ammo, but decided to try something else for my second box. I picked up some Federal Auto Match and CCI Standard Velocity. The Federal keeps noticably tighter groups than the Remmington, and I don't think it has anything to do with my shooting (unless I magically got better between boxes;)). Havent tried the CCI, yet, but I have high hopes. Iplan to try everything I can find and keep records so I will know what my rifle likes best. I thought it sounded ridiculous at first, but I am a believer now.
 
Depends on your needs and expectations. There are many people that shoot the Rem Golden Bullet. For their purposes, the price is right and the flyers and mis-fires don't seem to bother them for just plain plinking.
I shoot against friends using that brand- they just lose the contest. But they still have fun and enjoy the time spent trying to blast away the targets. They don't care if they fail to win. We all still sit by the campfire later.
I have greater demands. I test a lot of boxes of different brands in a good variety of handgun and rifle makes. I learn then assign the best brand for that particular application. 22 rimfire has an abundance of different revolvers, auto-loader pistols, rifles, bolt-actions, lever actions, ...and so on. There are also many different types of matches, competions, fun shoots, small game hunting,...and so on.
It just makes sense to me to spend a lot of range time using a variety of guns & ammo to see what produces the best results.
I may be lucky. I have the time and place to do it. There are several rifle and pistol ranges nearby. It's nothing for me to often have a range alone and take the numerous hours needed to collect target data.
 
There was a guy shooting Remington bulk pack ammo in a 10-22 last week at our club.

I was about 50 yards from him. I would hear three or four loud gunshots then one that sounded like an air rifle firing.

After the weak round you could him him say a few choice words and clear the jam.

He just could not fugure out what was going on. He cussed Bill Ruger and his entire company his wife kids and dog.

The idiot just could not understand the rounds that had the proper powder charge would cycle the action and the weak round would not.

I walked over to where he was and asked "Remington ammo?". He could not figure out how I knew that.

I tried to explain to the man what was going on but he just did not have the brains to be able to understand it.

Later that day he was in the gun shop still cussing Ruger and declaring he would never buy another one.
 
I've stopped buying Remington altogether. I have some sub sonic Rem from years ago that shoots OK, but not great in any of my guns.

Federal bulk shoots well in most of my .22's. Anything CCI seems to shoot reliably and accurately. Std. Vel., Blazer bulk, Mini Mags (HP and solid) and Stingers, gotta' love those Stingers.
 
Recommend you consider the 1045fps range for consisten ammo,

this velocity will give best accuracy for you.

I have tried and liked the Aquila Super Extra and the CCI Standard (note some boxes with state "target", those seems to be best.

I have never had good results with Remington, varying report while shooting and
poor groups. No current use of Federal or Winchester but the Winchester lasted use was mid-90's and that was T22. that didn't give good functioning "FTE"
thru bolt actions.

Go to www.rimfirecentral.com , a good website for .22's and a dedicated .22LR forum.
 
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Custom aquatics;

After you have purchased your assortment of ammo, I suggest that when you prove out which one YOUR rifle likes best.
1, Carefully clean your rifle. This means solvent & a brush (once or twice only) followed by a couple of clean patches.
Also carefully brush with rotary motion & solvent, the area immediately in front of your rifles chamber. This will remove a ring of carbon that builds up there that is usually not removed with normal cleaning.
2, At the range, fire at least 10 rds of each type of ammo to foul the barrel before shooting for groups. I suggest then firing at least 10 rds for group, more if you get really nice groups to check for flyers.
3, After each type of ammo, run a solvent patch followed by a couple of clean patches through the bore, or use a boresnake.
4, Repeat as neccessary.
5, When you do fire for group, make absolutely certain that you do everything exactly the same. Same position, same support, same sight picture, same same same. .22 rimfires because they are so slow demand absolute consistency in the shooters form and followthrough. (boring I know)
6, When you get fliers or outlying hits, examine your form first, then consider ammuniton, particularly inexpensive ammo. High quality consistent match grade ammo is more expensive for a reason.

What you are accomplishing is having each brand tested under the same circumstances, thus the differences you will find will be ammo, not you or how fouled the barrel is.

Roger
 
I shoot Wolf target if I can find it for sale, otherwise I shoot mostly CCI standard velocity.
You can't give me Remington .22 ammo anymore.

50 yard five shot group shot with a Winchester/Miroku 1885 Low Wall lever action single shot.
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If you are shooting under 75 yards, use what shoots best and don't worry about velocity. If you are reaching out past 100 yards, stay under 1100 fps. I can effectively reach out to 300 yards with CCI SV.
 
200 yard smallbore prone matches are starting to become popular now.

From what I understand you don't have a chance with HV ammo.

Everyone uses subsonic ammo.

So far we have not had a match but I saw a guy shooting from the bench with one of the CMP Kimber rifles shoot a 198 on the SR highpower target using Wolf Match Target.

He just wanted to see how it shot at that range and to see if his rear sight had enough elevation to get there.

From what I understand some 1,000 yard shooters shoot rimfires at 200 to simulate shooting centerfires at 1,000.
 
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