What is your favorite brand of .22LR ammo?

[Jon]

What is your favorite brand of .22LR ammo?

 

[timberjack86]

Remington golden bullet, will penetrate a hog all the way thru and won't tear a squirrel up too bad

 

[Remi]

What am I doing with it?

Hunting - CCI mini mag
Plinking/practice - Tac22 and CCI sv
Practice close to a match - SK
Match - Lapua

 

[Tenntrapper]

I usually use Norma and eley...both subsonic HP. Not as good as tenex, but good enough for squirrel noggins.

 

[Jbird22]

Wolf MT as far as accuracy is concerned. CCI Minimag HP for all around hunting from squirrels to pigs.

 

[Lt.Dan]

What ever I have on hand.

 

[Union Co. Boy]

I love the Aguila stuff. It's clean, accurate, cycles flawlessly in all of my rifles and pistols, and performs really well for dispatching varmints and small game. I use 3 different varieties of their loads and all perform very well. Their Velocitor loads are pretty fast at a billed 1,700 fps. They'll take a squirrel's head almost clean off. They can be a little pricier than some, but I just watch for sales and buy in bulk.

 

[Union Co. Boy]

I love the Aguila stuff. It's clean, accurate, cycles flawlessly in all of my rifles and pistols, and performs really well for dispatching varmints and small game. I use 3 different varieties of their loads and all perform very well. Their Velocitor loads are pretty fast at a billed 1,700 fps. They'll take a squirrel's head almost clean off. They can be a little pricier than some, but I just watch for sales and buy in bulk.

I apologize for the brain fart on this one. It's not the Velocitor round. It's the Supermaximum. My brain just ain't what it used to be.

 

[duvhntr]

Lapua

 

[quackaholic]

I used to always use whatever was available and cheap, and it really never disappointed me. But, I was building a new squirrel gun and wanted to suppress it, so I tried a variety of more expensive and speeds. My new favorite from all the testing turned out to be Norma Tac-22. Go figure. I really didn't think it would be.

 

[SPD FRK 70]

I've bought and used much aguila 22lr hv type ammo
Seems to be almost as good for me as cci mini mags and only about 5-6 cents a round

 

[DaveTN]

So that's going the way I thought it would, no one is close to CCI. But lets be fair.. most of us are plinking and just using a .22 for trigger time. We aren't going to buy Lapua or Eley at four times the cost, like our forum match shooters will.

I don't see any big difference in the accuracy of any of the .22 ammo I shoot. But CCI is the only rimfire ammo I have had that allows my guns to function flawlessly.

 

[quackaholic]

So that's going the way I thought it would, no one is close to CCI. But lets be fair.. most of us are plinking and just using a .22 for trigger time. We aren't going to buy Lapua or Eley at four times the cost, like our forum match shooters will.

I don't see any big difference in the accuracy of any of the .22 ammo I shoot. But CCI is the only rimfire ammo I have had that allows my guns to function flawlessly.

Eley subsonic didn't do well for me until I used it suppressed. Then it really did make a difference. Unless you are shooting 5 shot groups at 50 yards, most anything works. I like cci, but not mini mags.

 

[Doskil]

RWS and Norma are the same just different labels

Same company owns both

Norma TAC-22 is the same as the RWS sport ammo in the orange boxes

Good stuff

 

[SPD FRK 70]

Anyone use rws special match?

 

[Iglow]

Aguila, most accurate overall in everything ive shot it in. I like cci quiet too.

 

[Jon]

Anyone use rws special match?

I'm wanting to try it in my MTR but haven't yet.

 

[Jon]

Aguila, most accurate overall in everything ive shot it in. I like cci quiet too.

I wishy MTR liked Aguila but it doesn't like it at all.

 

[SPD FRK 70]

I'm wanting to try it in my MTR but haven't yet.

Hoping to try some in my 457 scout this weekend

 

[SPD FRK 70]

I wishy MTR liked Aguila but it doesn't like it at all.

That sucks
MTR has a match chamber correct?

 

[GUNNERX2]

I have to use something with a little extra umph to shoot in my TacSol 22 conversion for my Glock 19. TalSol suggests mini mags and thats what I use.
In my Model 41, I use Blaser for cheap plinking.
For squirrel control in the backyard, I shoot Winchester CB longs out of my Winchester Model 75.

 

[Jon]

That sucks
MTR has a match chamber correct?

Yes

 

[SPD FRK 70]

Yes

Is that the problem with the ammunition? The chamber?
I avoided buying anything advertised with a match chamber because I like to use El cheapo ammo most of the time which for me is aguila
I can still find it for 5 to 6 cents a round
CCI mini bags are cleaner but for just plinking I don't know that they are worth double the cost
I try not to run any aguila in our old Marlin 99 because it's a P.I.T.A. to clean but the bolt actions and even my 39a I run it often
I was mainly wondering about some of that better ammo for my 457
Our indoor range sucks I believe it's 75 ft which is obviously only 25 yd and I can usually get dime or nickel size size holes with any of those guns and any of that ammunition if I try
But the place is crazy dark inside and a scope helps hoping to shoot some outdoors at a little more distance soon

 

[Antler Daddy]

5 years ago it was any that I could buy. I probably have enough to last rest of my life now.

 

[SPD FRK 70]

I probably only have eight or 9,000 rounds
It goes quick when you take a 12-year-old to the range and he thinks it's call of duty

 

[Jon]

Is that the problem with the ammunition? The chamber?
I avoided buying anything advertised with a match chamber because I like to use El cheapo ammo most of the time which for me is aguila
I can still find it for 5 to 6 cents a round
CCI mini bags are cleaner but for just plinking I don't know that they are worth double the cost
I try not to run any aguila in our old Marlin 99 because it's a P.I.T.A. to clean but the bolt actions and even my 39a I run it often
I was mainly wondering about some of that better ammo for my 457
Our indoor range sucks I believe it's 75 ft which is obviously only 25 yd and I can usually get dime or nickel size size holes with any of those guns and any of that ammunition if I try
But the place is crazy dark inside and a scope helps hoping to shoot some outdoors at a little more distance soon

No, it chambers fine. Just not accurate in my rifle.

 

[MUP]

SK

 

[EastTNHunter]

I answered SK because my gun shoots it well enough and I can afford it, but it really shoots Eley Tenex better

 

[Remi]

Actual footage of me pricing anything Lapua right now

 

[Jon]

Actual footage of me pricing anything Lapua right now

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