What is your favorite brand of .22LR ammo?
What is your favorite brand of .22LR ammo?
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Remington golden bullet, will penetrate a hog all the way thru and won't tear a squirrel up too bad
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I usually use Norma and eley...both subsonic HP. Not as good as tenex, but good enough for squirrel noggins.
What ever I have on hand.
Union Co. Boy
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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
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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.
quackaholic
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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.
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
Seems to be almost as good for me as cci mini mags and only about 5-6 cents a round
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.
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
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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.
