Ammo for Taurus PT-22

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Prof Young

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So I've shot my Taurus PT-22 a good deal more and it has a tendency to fail to feed. I suspect it is the nature of the gun but am working my way through the 14 different brands of 22LR ammo I have in the armory to see if there is one that works better than the others. I shoot three 8+1 sets and count the failures out 27.

Results so far:
Federal Target Grade 4 failures
Federal Champion 6 failures
Browning 3 failures
American Eagle 3 failures.

I know some people's PT-22 will eat anything and never FTF. I suspect Taurus has quality control problems.

What do you feed your PT-22?

Life is good.
Prof Young
 
Mine is the polymer version,,,

Mine is the polymer version.

It doesn't like (lots of fail to feed):
Remington Golden Bullets
Remington Thunderbolt

It does like (minimal fail to feed):
Federal Bulk Pack 36 Grain HP
Remington 40 grain LRN mil-surp

It's flawless with (always works):
CCI 36 or 40 grain Mini-Mags

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Mine wouldn't feed anything. It was a disaster. If you have one of these, sell it.

It ejected live rounds, it jammed. It slammed shut on a live round it was trying to eject and bent it in half.

I tried different mags, different ammo - no difference. What is the gun for? If self-defense there are better small options now. If a plinker - same thing.
 
If it likes mini mags then definetelly needs the 22 lr with more powder or velocity. Buy the 22 with most velocity and heaviest (40 grain) bullet.

The ammo is to weak for that spring.

Use the most velocity ammo and get your report back on this thread.
 
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My Taurus PT22PLY loves CCI Mini Mags 40gr solids. Somewhere around 600 rounds with only one failure to fire at about the 400 round mark.. I blame that my failure to clean out the firing pin channel. Lately I have been shooting Federal Auto Match, maybe about 100 rounds, flawless with that too.
 
That's why you have to try a box of as many brands as you can. It's also why the price of the ammo makes no difference.
However, failing to feed has several causes that mayor may not have anything to do with the ammo. Bent mag lips for instance. Doesn't take much to throw any mag off.
American Eagle is just a Federal brand name. Comes in 3 bullet weights too. All of which are pretty much the same as Federal's Champion brand.
"...Taurus has quality control problems..." More that a PT22 is a low end, entry level, pistol.
 
Before you pull all your hair out... remove both grip panels and ensure that you have BOTH "fingers" that direct recoil spring pressure on the slide. On the one I had, one broke and it was jam city. Called Taurus and they mailed two of them to me. Installed a new one and almost immediately, the OTHER side snapped. Replaced it and then got rid of it.

Neat pistols and accurate but as expected, the parts and build quality simply isn't there.
 
Mine seems to run Hi-vel ammo the best.

I usually load it with CCI Blazer or Mini-mags. Neat little gun that I would trust as a BUG.

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More results on testing from OP . . .

Armscor Percision - 3 fails
Remington Thunderbolt - 0 fails
Winchester Match grade - 4 fails
Aguila Super extra - 10 fails

The remington finally had two fails in the fifth magazine full. So not too bad.
Will take a look at the "fingers" as noted above.
Still a fun gun to shoot.
Have had other "problems with Aguila. Don't think I'll buy it any more.

Life is Good
Prof Young
 
I remember the PT22 I had as the best looking, worst gun I ever owned.
Failures to feed, sure...mostly, in fact. When the round did chamber, the hammer spring didn't have enough oomph to detonate the primer. I was using all the better types of ammo, favorites I was shooting in other rimfires.
When it did fire, it keyholed, the only firearm I've owned which threw bullets sideways.
Taurus did pay to ship it back and forth. While it was gone, I found a deal on a Beretta Bobcat. It worked perfectly. When the PT22 came back, it fed and fired, but still keyholed. Sold it to a friend who didn't care, cheap.
Aguila 22 ammo has been good to me. I've used a brick each of their Interceptor and Supermax loads, as well as a box of 60gn SSS.
 
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