Anybody know where to get .22 or in bulk?

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Just got a Ruger 22/45 and will need to feed it.

I'll admit, I bought the gun without checking the .22lr prices and from what I'm seeing I can almost reload my 45 ACP for the same price!

Sorta defeats the purpose of shooting .22LR

Still, it'll make a nice hand gun for new shooters I introduce target sports to. Just not as cheap to run as I thought.
 
Time to start reloading .22's?:d My 22/45 shoots/feeds Federal 40 gr. and Am. Eagle 40 gr. very well. I mention this because you should be able to fund it for app. $.05-.06 per round. Which model 22/45?
 
I can't seem to find anything under $0.11-$0.12 / round. I bought my first case of 7.62x39 from Marstar last year for $0.13 / round. If you know where I can get .22lr for less please pm me.

To be honest. I don't know what model it is. It's in the mail. I believe it's a 5.5" bull barrel Target. Does that sound like a model of 22/45?
 
Between the dollar going down the toilet and the residual pricing effect of the recent panic buying in the US you'll need to search far and wide to find any .22LR for under 10c a round. And the stuff you do find is generally the worst of the worst for quality. The Ruger action is pretty tolerant of a lot of junk ammo but expect some of the worst of the cheap stuff to be an issue.

Hopefully when our dollar recovers a little and the Americans stop their splurge panic buying the prices will drop a little. But the days of 5 to 6 cents a round for .22 are long gone I'm afraid.

The only way to find "bulk" ammo is to buy a case lot of 3000 or 5000. But you're still paying pretty close to top dollar. So for now I'd go with the plan of buying what you need and only what you need. In other words just buy it a couple of bricks at a time and play the waiting game until it comes down to something around $300 for a case of 5K.
 
Lookie what I found at my local Sail!!

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$0.057 / round

I thought I better grab 2100 rounds while it's cheap. Will this stuff fire ok in my Ruger 22/45?

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Federal bulk 525 packs.....love them...only .22 ammo to happily cycle my Gsg...Remington and Winchester just don't run it, and I don't want to waste my hi .22lr
 
Import said:
Federal bulk 525 packs.....love them...only .22 ammo to happily cycle my Gsg...Remington and Winchester just don't run it, and I don't want to waste my hi .22lr
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The other day I ran out of Blazer and CCI SV, so I thought I would try some of my son's Federal Bulk 525 in my MKIII Hunter. Fourth round in and it didn't sound right. Unloaded and had a look - a squib a few inches from the end of the barrel. When I stripped the pistol that night, lots of unburned gun powder fell out and was stuck all inside my pistol. It may be cheap but I am not chancing it again in my pistol.

 
I dunno with what is currently available I a using the Remington "Bucket of Bullets" in my Savage Mark II and a semi and it runs fine. The Winchester bulk never really disappeared off the shelves I suspect because of it extraction issues. I measured the base and found the Winchester stuff is smaller than the Remington. I'm running to Sale and see what they have asap. Yes I find some stuff in the barrel but it cleans out, it always goes bang and extracts. Prefer the Blaser but its pricy when you find it. The remington is also high velocity so it should cycle most semi's.
 
with 22 rf it's a crap shoot- I've been in this sport going on 50 years and whatever works in whatever rifle/pistol works- once upon a time Winchester made a brand called dynapoint that worked in just about everything including the anchutz - not for competition, but practice- Remington has been typically CRAP with a capital c- federal works about 50% of the time, and now we get to Winchester current "quality" offering- the 333s and the 555s-this is what I use and I get very few ftfs, and that's over 4 rifles and 3 pistols-a pretty fair cross section of 22s- a nylon 22, a cooey 600m , a beretta 948short barrel, a beretta neos, a norinco m93 and a couple of others that escape me atm- I've run everything from rws eley comp ammo to aqila to Russian crap that you'd swear was loaded with black powder and packed in bear grease- the best I've seen is the Winchester dynapoint, followed by the 555s- and if any do an ftf, try rotating the round so the firing pin hits a DIFFERENT spot on the rim- all r/f seems to acquire a "dead spot" over time and just needs a different "whack" or a second whack if you have a hammer available
 
Zedbra said:
The other day I ran out of Blazer and CCI SV, so I thought I would try some of my son's Federal Bulk 525 in my MKIII Hunter. Fourth round in and it didn't sound right. Unloaded and had a look - a squib a few inches from the end of the barrel. When I stripped the pistol that night, lots of unburned gun powder fell out and was stuck all inside my pistol. It may be cheap but I am not chancing it again in my pistol.

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Hey zebra,
That's interesting...I've fed it through all my .22's without fault rifle and ruger don't seem picky, Gsg likes the extra fps..never had any undue fouling, and never a squib...guess it can happen with any mass produced ammo....nothing but ftf and fte with Winchester,
Remington was better but 2 rounds per mag wasn't in any way acceptable....go figure....
 
I just shot 150 round of the Federal 40 gr. Blue box stuff through my MK. III 22/45, zero issues. Different guns like different ammo. My 10/22 TD? well, it was like my kid, it wouldn't eat anything!
 
The 22/45 is a pretty tolerant gun for craptastic ammo. So likely as not it'll shoot fine. It might just not be quite as accurate as some other brands might be. But unless you're able to shoot 3 inch groups at 20 to 25 yards consistently I wouldn't worry about it.
 
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