Winchester 22LR wildcat

I found older Wildcat ammo to need a really hard strike to ignite. Had a 20% failure rate until I put a stronger firing pin spring and new firing pin in my 10/22, then down to about 3-5%. This was copper washed ammo however, so what you have could be different.
 
Grain said:
I found older Wildcat ammo to need a really hard strike to ignite. Had a 20% failure rate until I put a stronger firing pin spring and new firing pin in my 10/22, then down to about 3-5%. This was copper washed ammo however, so what you have could be different.
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Thank you for the feedback. I will use it in single shot bolt action TOZ 16 it has very hard striking bolt. Wondering about its accuracy/ consistency
 
I sold a bunch of HV at a LOSS due to POOR Accuracy. I only use HV Rem Golden for my Armalite AR-7 because it won't cycle SV. The only semi I own that won't. JMO
 
I bought my first 22 over 30 years ago and tried shooting wildcat in it. Absolute crap. Bought a bunch of 22 ammo over a year ago and had about 700 rounds of wildcat amongst it. Still crap. Everything I shot worked but some louder than others and a few hit the ground halfway to the target. Accuracy sucked. Absolutely junk.
 
Heliian said:
Terrible stuff, unreliable at best.
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I will elaborate. I bought a 500 round brick last month, it was cheap and I thought why not, it's Winchester right? I tried it in 4 different 22s, 3 bolts and a pump. It needs an incredibly hard strike most of the time and even with the hardest hitter it still had ftfs that were above any other ammo that I have ever shot. Accuracy was reduced over my stock federal ammo every time. I'm just going to burn through it when I'm not interested in accuracy. Maybe it will work better in a wildcat 22 rifle? In any case, I will never buy it again. It makes the remmington golden bullet look reliable.
 
Is there a worse ammo on the market? lmfao

Certainly this is the worst stuff I've tried. No other ammo has had the unreliability that this stuff did. I have no idea how accurate it is, it was so frustrating to use I never got to testing accuracy with it.

It should be noted I haven't bought this stuff in nearly 10 years, so it COULD be different now, but I'm not about to take that gamble.
 
I haven't had any luck with ANY Winchester .22lr loadings since the late '80's. Wildcat is probably the worst of the bunch. The 333 and 555 bulk packs they were selling often needed to have the ejector rod on my Smith model 18 smacked on the edge of a bench or table to get the spent cases out.

Auggie D.
 
Suther said:
Is there a worse ammo on the market? lmfao

Certainly this is the worst stuff I've tried. No other ammo has had the unreliability that this stuff did. I have no idea how accurate it is, it was so frustrating to use I never got to testing accuracy with it.

It should be noted I haven't bought this stuff in nearly 10 years, so it COULD be different now, but I'm not about to take that gamble.
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Yes there is!! It's called Remington Thunderbolt. The only ammo (1 brick) that I gave away to the local Boy Scouts and felt bad about it afterwards.
 
I have a brick of this stuff I bought a few years ago I haven’t opened yet. These reviews aren’t to hot lol.
If it shoots I’m happy. Budget .22 isn’t meant to be match ammo imo. Use it for what it is
 
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