22lr pistols?

My Ruger single six does very well with cheap 22lr ammunition. I have not had any misfires with Remington Thundebolts. I realize that this is a semiauto forum. Just sayin.
 
The two most regarded 22 autoloaders are the Ruger Mark series and the Browning Buckmarks. They shoot well, are accurate, have decent triggers, and in general eat just about anything you put through them.

I have two buckmarks - a camper with well over 100K through it, and a 5.5 target model, as well as two rugers -a mark 1 ( getting close to the 100K round count) and a mark 2. All of them are excellent guns for the money.
 
There's some 22 rimfire ammo that won't fire in anything.
More of an ammo problem than a gun problem.
.22s are manufactured by the billions every year.
If you're going to use the cheap stuff, and even the not so cheap stuff, just figure on some .22 rounds just not going off, regardless of the gun you have.
It's just a reality.
 
There is some ammo I know will not feed reliably in semi-autos so I stop trying (truncated cone). Other than that, both of my Rugers 22/45, SR22 feed everything I give them with no issues.
 
My Browning Buckmark shoots most anything well. My Walther P22 devoures Remington Golden Bullets as well as it does CCI Minimags. Does OK with Winchester Wildcat, but does not like Federal anything.
Haven't had a problem with any ammo in my Taurus 22 Poly, but doubt that is what you are looking for.
Best choice, Buckmark, or Ruger MK series.
 
As you can see individual pistols will shoot (or feed, fire, eject) in different ways, my S&W M&P .22 compact will shoot most anything however my Browning 1911-22 requires high velocity only and then sometimes rejects much of the Remington offerings.
I have Llama and Star pistols that are quite reliable with CCI HV or mini mags but balk at some others, a Beretta that just ate 40 year old Montgomery Wards ammo. Point being find a pistol that you like and then start investigating, having a bunch of comments (like I have done) that a particular pistol works for him does not solve your problem. Go to a shop with a range and test various models, determine the style ( a Mk Ruger is a lot different than a S&W Compact) and ergonomics you may desire. " physician heal thy self"
 
The M&P 22 Compact has a pretty good reputation for eating just about everything. That along with its similarity in size and ergonomic to the Shield I carry are the main reason I recently bought one myself.
 
As the other poster said...

I have a Bowning Buck Mark, my FiL has a Ruger Mark II. They will both eat any 22lr ammo we stick in them.
 
I have 2 SR-22's one of them has around 400 rounds thru it and no hic-ups.
I have shot all kinds of mfg 22's thru it but mainly run minimags.
 
Over the past couple of years I've tried more than ten, .22lr pistols including S&W, Ruger, BuckMark, Hammerli and etc. At present, I own seven. I shot whatever ammo was available. Settled on Armscor, Aquila-both high velocity and standard velocity and CCI minimags. Can't tell any difference. I shoot a couple hundred rounds a week, sometimes more. In the past month, I've had one failure to fire; it fired on the second attempt. My Hammerli failed to cycle a couple of rounds of Aquila standard velocity pistol ammo. I ran five rounds of Armscor HV thru it; then went back to Aquila. It then ran over a 100 rounds of Aquila OK.

The only pistol problem I've encountered was with a used Ruger Mk ii Government Target. I changed firing pin and extractor without results. Sent it to Ruger Customer Service. It has worked flawlessly since then.

Most of the time problems are ammo. I have yet to find a pistol that will only shoot one brand of ammo. I've seen several that will shoot some ammo brands and not other brands.
 
Is there at least one 22lr pistol that will shoot the cheapest 22lr ammo really well?
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I'm sure there is, but I'm also sure no one can definitively tell you what that is. Because no one knows, for certain. ;)

We can tell you what our guns do, and don't but you could have exactly the opposite experience with an identical gun.

As a class, .22 semi autos are about the most finicky firearms out there, when it comes to what they will run well on, and what they won't. Some eat everything, some one run well on certain things.

And, you cannot count on the pistol's price and quality as any guarantee that it will run "the cheapest" or any brand specifically. Every gun seems to be an individual in this.

A friend's S&W model 41 had numerous misfires with a batch of CCI Blazer we were shooting. My old Ruger Mk I ate that ammo flawlessly. A different batch of ammo might have given different results.

And, other things than just the ammo matter, as well. My old (83) Ruger Mk I has been about 100% reliable with everything I've fed it, with ONE magazine, and only about 80% with a different magazine.

We can give you opinions to answer your question, no one can give you any fact, other that what the pistols we have, do.
 
A Ruger Mark I,II, III, or IV, or a Ruger SR22, will generally shoot any .22LR ammo just fine so long as it is not the special subsonic stuff. In other words, these guns typically function perfectly with any standard velocity or high velocity .22LR ammo.

Ruger and S&W .22LR revolvers will typically shoot any .22 ammo (excepting .22 WMR which requires a different cylinder as provided with the Single Six series.)
 
My Ruger MkIII was a jam-o-matic with even the premium stuff I bet I tried 15 different types of ammo in the thing and none it worked for me. I shot thousands of rounds out of it but I don't think it feed a whole mag full of ammo without a jam the whole time I had it.
 
There's an old saying that goes 'There ain't a horse that can't be rode or a cowboy that can't be throwed'.

I can 'analogy that' to .22 semi autos and .22 ammo. ;)

Some of you guys are really lucky to have never had some kind of FTF, FTE, etc.
 
I second the M&P .22 Compact. I have well over 1000 rounds through mine, and have had less than a hand full of failed to fire rounds. I contribute this more to the ammo than I do the weapon.

I only buy the cheapest ammo that I can find, usually when I can find some bulk stuff somewhere.

Exco
 
So it appears it's true two identical guns and 2 different experiences. Had A Walther P22 that shot absolutely nothing. Never got a round down range as case split and jammed on every shot. It had a very short life.
Ruger MIII and M&P 22lr C eats anything other than sub sonic.
 
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