.22 stinger damage?

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Hey guys, I just ordered my Savage MKII FV-SR yesterday. I am putting a Nikon M-223 scope on it. I want to calibrate the scope to the CCI Stinger rounds. But I heard that it is such a HOT (1640 F.P.S.) round, it can damage certain chambers and bores.

So does anyone know if these rumors are true? Will my Savage MK II FV-SR be able to handle thousands of those rounds, or not?
 
Stingers don't damage a gun because they are "hot" but because the brass is longer than standard .22lr brass and you are jamming into the first 1/8" of rifling in the barrel.


As far as I'm concerned stingers serve no purpose except a louder bang. You probably get better depth of penetration (other bullets might still make a better wound) but there are plenty of more accurate rounds on the market.
 
Stingers are only an issue with Bentz and Target chambers. Both types of chambers have very little to no freebore at the lead and the extra long brass becomes an issue.

With standard chambers they are not an issue. If your rifle has a standard chamber, Stingers will work fine in them. They operate at the same pressures as regular high velocity rimfire ammo. Unless your gun or aftermarket barrel come with a "No Stingers" warning, they are not an issue.
 
Stingers have longer brass because the bullet is shorter. The overall length of the loaded cartridge is the same. If standard long rifles don't hit the rifling upon loading, then neither should the stingers.

Target chambers are designed to shove the bullet into the rifling upon closing the bolt. With these guns, you are warned not to eject an unfired round because the bullet stuck in the rifling might be pulled out of the case and stay lodged in the barrel.
Once you chamber the round, you gotta shoot it, if you can't shoot it, you may need to dislodge the pulled bullet with a ramrod.

If your .22 rifle didn't cost several thousand dollars and doesn't resemble those rifles used by olympic shooters, it probably doesn't have a target chamber.
 
Savage FV-SR = accurate rifle 99% of the time
CCI Stingers = inaccurate ammo in 95% of guns.

Might as well flush money down the toilet. Try Velocitors or better yet stop being impressed by numbers on paper and find (via. testing) a good, accurate ammo for your gun.

LK
 
With .22LR rounds, faster and more powerful ammo is not a better perfoming ammo. You won't see any target shooters using those rounds.

The problem is that those rounds start out at supersonic speeds. They don't stay that fast for long though. Once they drop back down below the sound barrier the turbulence they experience creates havok with any accuracy.
 
Tempest 455 said:
Best in my opinion, in this order.

Eley Rifle - Red box
CCI Green Tag
Wolf Match
CCI Velocitor
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I have never tried Eley ammo, I just can't bring myself to pay $17-18 for a box of 50 .22 LR bullets. I'll just take other people's word for it that they are good, and I have the feeling that if you don't own a serious target rifle with a match chamber, you might not be able to tell the difference anyway.

Wolf Match and Target ammo impresses me. Shot at 50 yards using a Winchester 1885 "low wall" single shot (made under license by Miroku).

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My understanding is that Wolf M/T is repackaged SK Lapua ammo.
 
I have a Savage Mk II Tactical that really enjoyed Stingers. I then found out that they like Mini-Mags just as much. Then it became the matter of $6/50 vs. $6/100. I'm no mathematician, but I can figure out the savings there.

Try out some of the other ammo out there, figure out what the gun likes vs. what you like.
 
I havent ever had any issues with stinger. I mostly buy CCI in one form or other. It will kick a can across the yard or kill a squirrel as good as anything else.
 
I no longer use Stingers in any of my guns. Rem Yellow Jackets are a little bit slower, but are far more accurate in my weapons.
 
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