.22 rimfire ammo suggestions

[zerohedspace]

I'm saving for a .22 rifle for target practice, looking for advice as to what ammo to purchase, is there a bulk ammo recommendation? Thanks all!

 

[yomomma]

Find out what your rifle likes to shoot first, then buy bulk

Some 22's can be very picky about ammo

 

[scotteboy]

What "yomomma" said.
Buy a few boxes and try em out.
Your firearm will let u know what it likes to eat

 

[OkayShooter]

Find out what your rifle likes to shoot first, then buy bulk

Some 22's can be very picky about ammo

What they said.

 

[cattabliss]

minimags often have the best balance of 'goes bang each time' and are lower price than the real premium stuff

 

[Keller]

I love getting a new .22. Pull out a box of every type of ammo I have and start shooting. It becomes clear very fast which one the rifle is gonna like. Hopefully not the most expensive brand.

My 10/22 absolutely loves Eley, but it also does ok with CCI HV brands. Price dictates that it gets CCI more often than Eley.

 

[LeoSky]

Federal Champion .22lr is good ammo overall, accurate, clean, and incredibly reliable.

Sellier & Bellot Canadian Match .22lr is very accurate for being priced as cheap ammo, clean, but does have average reliability.

These are my two faves for bolt action.

CCI Mini-mag .22lr is the go to for most semi auto rifles with it being clean and mostly reliable ammo although not necessary for a bolt action.

I don’t have much experience with this ammo as I only own bolt actions, but I have to bought it to use in other people’s semi auto rifles and it simply works.

Aguila Super Extra .22lr is the only ammo I’ve had issues with, refused to extract is my Savage MKII so I would be careful buying it, there is some info online about it being great for the TM22 so if that’s what you get it might be worth a buy.

Avoid all Remington copper plated .22lr, I found the copper coating flakes off and gets everywhere like copper anti-sieze.

As mentioned above buy a box of each and make sure it works, then buy in bulk.

 

[HighSpeedLowDrag2023]

For plinking ammo I would grab a box of each of the following and start there:
-cci standard velocity (clean, seems to be consistently decent across lots of rifles. Doesn't seem to be readily available these days and there was a report a while back of a bad lot resulting in detonation out of battery. I've taken to buying it by the case)
- Norma TAC 22 (heavy wax on this stuff that can gum up mags, but otherwise pretty consistent.)
-S&B Canadian match (dirtier than the other two, but still shoots fine and seems to be readily available)

If none of those are giving you the accuracy you're looking for, you can have a look at the ELEY/RWS/SK offerings.

 

[SigWig]

^this, just watch out for that one bad lot of cci sv

 

[Smis Five Creedmoor]

i pretty much also exclusively shoot CCI, especially if it's a semi

 

[I Dont Care About You]

Step 1: Buy a decent bolt action rifle. The best ammo in the world aint gonna shoot for ####e in a carp rifle.

 

[economics]

it's pretty hard to locate a 5000 or even 500 pack of standard velocity these days

 

[Bangalore]

I have have decent success with SK out of CZ 457 Varmit

 

[NZClaybuster]

norma tac has been the best value for me. so far. Centre x has been the best performer. SK rifle match is my choice, but has become unobtainable.

SOME rifles do very well with federal AutoMatch... but not all

 

[Old270win]

CCI standard have served me well at the target range

 

[Cranky old Scot]

I'd try a box of as many different brands as you can find to see which your gun prefers. you may be lucky and find an inexpensive ammo your gun likes.

Cranky old Scot

 

[Dave_D]

Depends what you’re trying to do. Shoot cans and mag dumps. Cheepest shît you can find.
Groups or precision. Test test test. Cci standard velocity gets my vote for a starting point.