Aguillia rimfire ammo?

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My Single Six hates those! The soft cases oftem are out of shape and chamber hard amd sometimes they extract difficultly, likr yhry swell/ I don;t have trouble with any other ammo, they work just fine!
The bullets on different brands affect accuracy but that's about all.
My S/S likes Winchester Super-X best for accuracy.
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The only thing you can say for sure about .22s is that each gun is going to have its own ammo preference, and it's hard to predict what that will be. I've been using Aguila SV .22 (which is sold through the Civilian Marksmanship Program) in Bullseye competition for several years, and it's been both very accurate and very dependable in my Walther GSP Expert. Others on my team have had similar success with Aguila and others still can't get it to run dependably in their guns. My guess is the same is true for most brands of rimfire ammo.
 
Aguillia makes a lot of specialty 22 ammo. I had a guy at the range whining because colibry's wouldn't work his semi-auto. Another guy had the subsonic (22 short brass w/ a heavy bullet) that wouldn't work either. Both victims of the great 22 shortage
 
Ever try those 60 gr super heavy bullet .2's?
They look real funny but I didn't see any real dvantage other than a conversation piece.
I tryed their CB style cartriges, they didn't do as well as CCI or Remingtons CB Caps. They really shoot great!
Yea every .2 is different.
Generally, I get my best luck with Super-X Winchesters in the Single Six also my little Beretta Tip-up.
 
I hate the way the smell but love the way they group:p

The match rifle and target loads perform like Wolf and Eley from most of my .22s for less $ per round.

The 60 gr Sniper subsonic round you mentioned is a great little round when shot with proper rifling to keep them accurate.
They penetrate far deeper than other .22lrs in ballistic gel tests.

Their super colibri primer only load is one of my favorite woods walking rounds in my bearcat and single six; no hearing protection really needed IMO.
 
JohnMoses said:
Aguillia makes a lot of specialty 22 ammo.
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Aguila is the only company currently offering .22 Winchester Automatic Rimfire (.22 WAR) ammo for the Winchester Model 1903 carbine. The stuff has been unavailable for years ... which was sad for me because I have my grandfather's old 1903 that I learned to shoot on, and I had nothing to feed it. (For those unfamiliar with the Model 1903 and .22 WAR ammunition, it's a special round that doesn't fit any other firearm -- and .22 Long or Long Rifle doesn't work in the 1903.) Aguila recently started offering it again so I grabbed a few boxes. It runs perfectly, and it's very accurate.
 
I have a bunch of it and I shoot it all the time and have never really had any issue to talk about. Once in awhile like most other rimfire ammo I get a dud no big deal!
 
I use both Colibri & Super Colibri ammo in a lot of my antique rim fires, & like those for that purpose... I've never shot their 22 LR ammo

I can believe their brass is soft... in buying range brass in 25 ACP for my custom revolver, I've run across a fair amount of Aquilla cases... seems the rims are all deformed, & the head stamps flattened out to where a lot of them aren't very readable ( signs of very soft brass, or hot loads, compared to all other brands I've collected )
 
Viper99 said:
Worked well for me too.
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+1 for me too. I haven't shot a lot Aguila but it functioned without a hitch in my automatics.

This is the first I've heard about having softer brass cases. Might be a good candidate for making bullet jackets.

...bug :)
 
if you have a use for the 25 autos... I'll donate some for you to play with... ( don't know if you do 25-20 or any of the 1/4 bores )

they are soft enough / deformed at the rims enough, that I'm not going to put them in my mixed head stamp bag I'll be selling at the next gun show...
 
I appreciate the offer MWM

Thanks for the offer Magnum Wheel Man. I'm just starting to swage .224 from RF cases. There are some mixed thoughts on whether or not to anneal cases when making jackets. The .25 cal Aguillia's might make some great jacketed pistol bullets for someone!
 
my thoughts as well, the primer pocket might make a soft point bullet, or just make them un-useable

my retired tool & die buddy swages jackets on .223 / .224 bullets... I guess I've never asked him about 1/4 bore stuff, since I just thought of it after reading this thread...
 
discount ammo usually comes with baggage. Maybe aguila, mexican, isn't as well made as cci, I don't know.

You will find that cheap ammo almost always performs cheaply.

twenty years ago, I used a few boxes of PMC .22 rimfire. The lead was tarnished and black, and unwaxed. The bore was filthy after use. The shot itself was smoky and filthy.

They used cheap alloy for the bullets, cheap powder, poor priming components, resulting in a misfire or three, cheap brass, and south korean military equipment that just didn't produce quality product. accuracy was bad, too.
 
I have some of their 5mm magnum ammo, it shoots good enough but I do have extraction issues with it.

You would think the company that made the rifles and ammo could at least still manufacture the ammo, but not so, thanks Remington.

Best Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com
 
Not enough people bought the rifles or ammo when they were available. those guns fell flat. It was a good idea at the wrong time. Right now, tens of thousands of .17 rimfire rounds are being sold, but back then, nobody was willing to pay the price of the special ammo. I'd love to know how many of them were just thrown out.

BTW, that is the same thing that winchester did to people a few years earlier when they stopped loading the .22 wrf. Things just become obsolete. Be thankful that you didn't buy a gyrojet.
 
Not enough people bought the rifles or ammo when they were available. those guns fell flat.
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Remington has a good record of bad marketing or as you said letting things fall flat.
Here's a couple of other examples of Remington dropping the ball, 6mm versus 243, 280 versus 270.

However from personal experience I can say the 5mm magnum is a great round.
The original loading of a 38gr hollow point at a little over 2100fps and the Aguila loading of a 30gr hollow point at 2300fps is pretty good rimfire fodder.
I would much rather have these over the lightweight 17.

Best Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com
 
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