Blazer rimfire should be relabelled as 'shotshells'

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I recently had my Taurus 63 semiauto D&T'd for scope mounts, and had a session at the range on the weekend. Mosquitoes were pretty bad and I wasn't prepared, so it was hurried to say the least. Federal solids were going nicely into the black at 25 yards, making a decent (but not target grade) group. The Blazer ammo on the other hand, was all over the paper. It looked like I used buckshot on the target.

But in other rifles, it shoots much better. So the lesson as always with rimfires, is never take for granted that any ammo will be fine in any particular rifle. The differences can be huge.
 
Still trying to figure out Blazer ammo in the .22 hierachy - is it the CCI response to Fed's American Eagle?

Edit: revision on my part: This stuff seems to be good for cycling semi's in a clean-burning fashion, but accuracy seems to be firearm-specific. Hence the plinking classification by many. Agree/disagree?

Personal note: yea, I know it's taken far too long for me to discover this stuff. Been Fed AE & 525-bulk pack, misc. Rem ammo, and CCI minimags and CB's mainly until recently - trying to branch out now!
 
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I've got roughly 8 types of 22 ammo, probably something like 4k total. But the great thing about 22 ammo is that it all fits in a small toolbox, so it's no big deal to bring it all to the range and test different stuff out.
 
I find CCI Blazer to be clean and reliable in the two firearms I ran it through (Ruger MkIII and Ruger 10\22). What do you expect for the price?
 
I bought a case of it because I have about 5 rimfires that work very well indeed with it. But, as observed, some 22's do not care for it much. That being said, I have seen rifles that did not care for a given lot of very expensive match ammo. Just goes to show how selective some 22's can be, ammo-wise. I have a friend who competes in Biathlon, and she told me that she always uses Blazer for practice, since it is quite consistent in her Anschutz. When actually competing, she uses better ammo, of course. Regards, Eagleye.
 
candaian tire,

so no,

HHAHAHAHAHA

seruiosly CTC is the only place i have ever found in canada to carry it.
at $2.49 a box its not bad
 
I have tried it through all six of my auto loading 22's and found that it works fine in three of them and poorly in the other three... each type of rifling. twist rate, action etc, will actdifferently wih different ammo. Experimentation is key, and if the ammo works so be it, even if it is the cheap stuff. The Blazer ammo is pretty clean compared to some...
 
stue said:
It is the best ammo for my TOZ-78 i found so far...

I took everything out of a shelves of CTs in Richmond Hill, Aurora and New Market,
last weekend i cleared one CT in Guelph as well ;-) I don't know how often they restock it...
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So close...yet not close enough. Living in Toronto...grumble, grumle...

Richmond Hill coordinates?
 
Holy resurrection!

I just red that there at least 2 different types of bullet lube placed on the Blazers...I wasn't even aware it had that much lube in the first place...comments?
 
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