22 SW Revolver

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Colduglandon

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Took my 22 to the range. Have not used it in a very long time. Bought some ammo, Thunderbolts I think they were. Fired high at 20 yds. Its been a long time and can't remember what I used to use in this gun but as I recall it was a lot more accurate. Any thoughts on Long Rifle ammo for a SW with 4" barrell.
 
I have had pretty good results with Thunderbolts out of both kit gun and 6" K-22s. Not the greatest for accuracy but great for plinkin and training. At eight bucks a carton they seemed a bargain.

Sam
 
I really haven't had much of a chance yet to give my pair of Christmas Smith Model 17's a good ammo check because of the weather. One of them though has shown an early liking to Federal bulk pack (550 count at Wally World). Being only a 36gr high velocity as opposed to the Thunderbolts 40 grain, it may run faster in your Smith and lower the POI.
 
In my experience, Remington Thunderbolts are the true TRASH of the .22 ammo world.

I've normally gotten rotten accuracy and HORRIBLE leading from T-bolt, to the point where I won't even touch the stuff.

Try Winchester Wildcat.
 
Agree with Mike, TBolts are the worst.

For the best of the really cheap stuff, I like the Remington 36gr. Golden Bullets. Generally under $10 per 500+ at Wal-Mart.

There was a thread around (Rifle forum?) about someone who weighed each round on a powder scale and sorted them. Since the biggest problem with these low-cost rounds is variations in the powder charge, he said that increased his accuracy significantly.
 
Go to Wal-Mart

Get a box of every .22LR they have on the shelf. Yes, certain CCI and Rem. comes in 100rd. boxes, and that's fine. Also, get one of every 550ct. bulk-pack that they have. Worst case scenario, you'll always find at least one of your other .22s that will do OK with it. Anyway, experiment with each to find what works best in your gun. With any luck, it will be one of the cheaper and/or more readily available loads, hopefully one of the bulk-packs.:) Case in point, my Smith auto is doing just as well with the Win. X-22 bulk stuff as it does with CCI Std. Vel. which costs over 3X as much.:eek: However, my Ruger hates it, and thrives on the CCI.:(
 
Victor Louis has a very valid point.

I had a Walther match gun that did about as well with $60/6000 case Russian dirty stuff as it did with Federal Gold Medal Ultra Match. Less failures to fire with the Federal but the accuracy was about equal.

Each gun is an entity unto itself.

Sam
 
I am going to try the bulk packs at Wally World. I found an old carton in the closet, Remingtons. Looks like a small milk carton. Had some old 32 ACP brass in it. I think that is what I was using years ago. I will try a brick of Remington and Some Winchesters. And like you said, I can always use it in one of the old bolt action 22's.
 
My father has a Remington 521T, which was an intermediate price semi-target rifle made from the 1950s to the 1970s, I think. He got it in 1952 or 1953, IIRC.

But, one summer I decided to put a scope on it and find some accurate ammo for squirrel hunting.

So, I hit the local gun store, and bought single boxes of stuff.

Federal Lightning was very good, but believe it or not, the most accurate stuff out of this gun was PMC Zapper, and it was FAR from expensive.

I ended up buying 7 bricks from the same lot of the PMC, all that my gun store had.

I took dozens of squirrels with that ammo over the next 3 years.
 
the 521 T is pretty neat- made from 1947 maybe up into the '60s.

I've gotten really fine accuracy in handguns with CCI mini-mags -particularly the hollow points with remington golden bullets being just a bit more accurate but more prone to squibs and Federal Gold Match shooting right with the remingtons. The above is true for my model 617 and a 521 T. 25 Yards:
These were shot with the model 17 which also did very well with stingers.
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Here's a 25 yard group with remington golden bullet hollow points from a 617 with dot sight. It's just a bit better than I got with cci mini-mags.
 
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.58" ?

The accepted fomula for measuring groups is: the distance between the outside edges of the two holes which are furthest apart, then, subract one bullet diameter(.22).:) Thus, it appears to be more like just over an inch. Listen, even that's nothing at all to be ashamed of, for sure!:D

Or, are those two, separate groups?:eek: :cool:
 
The goal is to come up with a center to center measurement. What I do is eyeball the center- even on a .22 and lay the calipers there. This is a for-real fifty eight caliber group give or take the stray thousanths attributable to my eyeballs. the black circle is one of the periperals that come with Shoot 'n see targets and measures 1.1" edge to edge. the three group average was well under an inch.
 
PS: I usually do shoot at least two separate groups out even though I'm trying to shoot one. The scary thing about this is that these guns will shoot better than I can demonstrate.
 
My apology.

:)

Based on your measurement of the target dot, you are correct. The size of your excellent photo is no-doubt what confused me.:o
 
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