I bought a Ruger 10/22 Takedown today as a plinker. The guy at the store recommended CCI ammo. I'm more interested in clean then I am anything else. I remember from my teenage years of $5 bricks of 22LR and burning up boxes of the stuff on the weekends, some of the ammo made a mess of the gun. Who is the go to ammo company now and where online do you go for it?
The main thing is a copper coated bullet. I’m partial to Remington Golden Bullets.
My 10/22 loves CCI Stingers and Mini-Mags. We tried shooting cheap ass Remington Thunderbolts st $1/box. Dirtiest powder I've ever seen. Spent hours cleaning the barrel and block. Never again.
I can vouch for CCI.
What he sold me was CCI Mini-Mags.
I have put lots of thunderbolt cartridges through a marlin 60. I currently have remington subsonic ones so I don’t freak out the neighbors sniping raccoons after dark
CCI Stingers are the best 22LR rounds I have ever used. All of my 22 semi autos love them. They are hard to find locally. I bought 500rds for a Christmas present for my Dad from Bulk Ammo. Even though CCI is made in my hometown, I couldn't find more than a few boxes.
CCI MiniMags are about the best for generic good quality stuff. During the great Obama 22 Drought, I bought some Remington Golden Bullet 550 packs. Those have got to be the worst crap 22's I have ever shot, and I have shot a LOT of them. Those things have duds. A lot of duds. I probably went 30 years of 22 shooting without a single dud, then got these things and there's got to be a 1% dud rate. Maybe more. I've even had one hang fire on me. And it is not uncommon for some to go 'BANG' and some to go 'bang' or 'pop'. Luckiest squirrel in the world was on my porch looking down the barrel of my rifle with a Remington Golden Bullet in it. Pulled the trigger, it went "click." Single shot rifle, so the squirrel was long gone before I could get it reloaded. So, I would recommend no Remington on the 22's. Federal is good stuff, but the primers are too sensitive for my Contender. Those will go off if I close the action briskly. They are fine in other guns. I've always had good results with Winchester Wildcats, if they still make them, but I haven't bought any of those in a while. Blazer used to be good plinking stuff too, but again, I haven't bought any of those in a while.
Places: CheaperThanDirt.com, GrabAGun.com, MidwayUSA.com. Walmart. Cabelas.
I like ammoman.com. Their prices include shipping, so it is easy to figure out the total cost per round.
I am in the opposite situation: I bought 3200 rounds of 22LR on spec around thanksgiving because there was a good deal on federal ammo, now I want to buy a rifle so I have something to use it in. I am thinking of getting a 10/22.
I can't speak to the cleanliness of any particular brand, sorry.
I bought these once because they were cheap:
What a crappy round. My Ruger 22/45 MkIII hated these. I couldn't hardly get it to cycle. And they were horribly dirty as well.
From my experience Eley and Lapua are both very good.
The federals are my favorite cheap 22. My target toys universally reject Remington Thunderbolts.
Eley and Lapua are going to be top of the line stuff, and priced accordingly.
A 10/22 is the "'Merican" 22 rifle. Everyone needs one of those. They go for a little under $200 on super sale occasionally, for the basic version. So, like Arkansas Gun Law: If you don't have one, get one.
Years ago, I bought a case of Russian made 22's. They were standard (not 'High') velocity, really greasy, shot dirty, and were extremely accurate out to 75 yards, after which they kinda dropped like a stone. I used to shoot them out to 75 in NRA Hunter Pistol Metallic Silhouette competition, then switch to something else at 100.
I dont shoot a ton anymore but the federal bulk stuff was always nice. I tried the remington bulk and as others have said, it was pretty crummy. Lots of duds.
Mostly using sub sonics with a supressor for “target practice”. Stocked up on some aquila stuff a while back. Its VERY good stuff. Runs hot too. Just under sonic, not way under like some. Ive had maybe 1 go sonic out of hundreds.
All 22LR is dirty. Even the super expensive target grade stuff I use.
CCI is the best all around ammo. go on R/Gundeals and buy a 5-10K brick of it if it works in your gun.
I am very partial to this stuff for my 22LR AR15 builds. 0.04$ a round and I go through LB's of it. I have something like 20K rounds of this that I got last time it went on sale. I EAT 22LR and the range its my favorite caliber by far and I do a good bit of training with women and a soft shooting 22LR is great for practice then working up to say a .380.
In reply to Dr. Hess :
Why blame one person in one branch of the government for a ammo shortage? Flounder much?
To go along with the ammo question, targets.
There are a metric ton of paper, steel, plastic, re-setable, self healing, dura whatever out there.
What are you guys using.
My primary shooting range will be a enormous dirt pile at the family farm left over from digging a pond. Distances will be out to 100 yards.
The last time we went shooting was sighting in a .270 and we used paper targets.
In reply to Toyman01 :
I'm about to build some steel targets because 1) I'm too lazy to reset and 2) I'm too cheap to keep buying targets.
For my 22 range, the firing position of which is just outside my front door on the porch, I use a steel swinger target. It has 4 round steel pads hanging on bars. They flip up when you hit them, then you hit the one on top to reset. It's fun. I have it at a little over 40' and if I'm tuned up, I can get 5 out of 5 standing. For my 300BO range, I have a heavier steel plate set. The first 2 fall back and latch, then the third one resets the first 2.
Dr. Hess said:For my 22 range, the firing position of which is just outside my front door on the porch, I use a steel swinger target. It has 4 round steel pads hanging on bars. They flip up when you hit them, then you hit the one on top to reset. It's fun. I have it at a little over 40' and if I'm tuned up, I can get 5 out of 5 standing. For my 300BO range, I have a heavier steel plate set. The first 2 fall back and latch, then the third one resets the first 2.
Get a dueling tree if you see one on sale. Those are fun with a 22.
I always got the remington bricks for walmart for my 10/22 and mark 2, but the wifes 1911 22lr hates the stuff. Hers loves the Aguila Super Extra stuff, pretty cheap too.
Im glad i bought 6 bricks back when they were 8 bucks although im almost out
Toyman01 said:To go along with the ammo question, targets.
There are a metric ton of paper, steel, plastic, re-setable, self healing, dura whatever out there.
What are you guys using.
My primary shooting range will be a enormous dirt pile at the family farm left over from digging a pond. Distances will be out to 100 yards.
The last time we went shooting was sighting in a .270 and we used paper targets.
I do paper plates and a sharpie or aluminum cans. Either is a very cheap option.
Apples are cool too if you find them cheap, biodegradable explosive targets
Stampie said:In reply to Dr. Hess :
Why blame one person in one branch of the government for a ammo shortage? Flounder much?
Back story will help. The reason Hess called it the Obama 22LR Shortage is not because of the Big O himself, but the self fueled frenzy that many gun owners spun thems elves into, thinking Obama was coming to take their guns.
So there was a run on guns and ammo, particularly .22LR. The ammunition and firearms manufacturers did little to nothing to dissuade these notions, because, hell, they were raking billions.
Great thread, I was just wondering this myself.
wearymicrobe said:All 22LR is dirty. Even the super expensive target grade stuff I use.
CCI is the best all around ammo. go on R/Gundeals and buy a 5-10K brick of it if it works in your gun.
I am very partial to this stuff for my 22LR AR15 builds. 0.04$ a round and I go through LB's of it. I have something like 20K rounds of this that I got last time it went on sale. I EAT 22LR and the range its my favorite caliber by far and I do a good bit of training with women and a soft shooting 22LR is great for practice then working up to say a .380.
I'll second this stuff from Federal. I have been running it for several years in an semi-auto rifle, several semi-auto pitols, and a revolver and I cannot say I've had any issue common to other brands of bull ammo. The failures to fire are extremely few and far between and loading/extraction issues are nonexinon-ex for me. Of course YMMV.
For general plinking, I bought a case of biodegradable clay pigeons. There are all kinds of cheap pigeon holders. Or you can throw them on your backstop. They are fun because most of the time you can tell where you hit them and they kinda shatter.
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