CCI Stinger and Match barrels

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I've heard Stingers can damager rifling in match barrels with some firearms, like the 10/22.
My Mossberg Plinkster says right in the books its made for Hyper-Velocity ammo and it loves to shoot it more than any other .22lr but what firearms aren't safe to use these rounds in?
 
Stingers have sightly longer cases which makes them impossible to chamber in match barrels.

My ruger 10/22 in stock form won't chamber a Stinger, others I have or have had won't.

No damage will be done to the rifling.
 
RePete said:
Stingers have sightly longer cases which makes them impossible to chamber in match barrels.
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x 2 - the general sentiment is about difficulty in chambering, not in damage to the barrels, Mayer (though I've been warned against feeding a factory-barrel AR-7 Stingers, albeit for a wholly different reason).

The older the rifle, the more wary I'd be in feeding it the hyper-vel stuff; however, many older rifles can be built like tanks (esp. stock bolties), so it's hard to give a rule-of-thumb.

P.S. Some semi's may specify hyper-vel stuff because they come with stiffer/"beefier"/harder-to-cycle actions. No Lapua Club for cycling those mini-thugs...

;)
 
what do you call match barrel. Most aftermarket heavy barrels do not feature match chamber, especially those that were made for semi-autos. Stingers will wear match chamber because those chambers made shorter and press bullet into rifling when you chamber it. Feeding stingers into those will make casing go into riflings.
 
Me and my friend were out shooting and he wanted to use some stingers in his .22 but I just wasn't sure what kind of rifle it was and I did not want to damage his rifle in any way so I was just checking.
 
Mayer said:
Me and my friend were out shooting and he wanted to use some stingers in his .22 but I just wasn't sure what kind of rifle it was and I did not want to damage his rifle in any way so I was just checking.
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Better safe than sorry, I suppose.

;)

Esp. with another's firearm.
 
Stinger make a lot of noise but are generally not too accurate. I don't see why people bother with them anyway.
 
velocitors have a normal length case so they should chamber fine.
Quik-shoks have a stinger length case so the run into the same chamber problems.
I like Velocitors too but the energy transfer is not as dynamic as a stinger.
In wet newspaper the velocitors penetrated almost twice as deep as stingers.
 
I use stingers in my cooey model 75 and at 60 metres I can get one big hole with 5 shots... iron sights. Not joking, I love the ammo and it loves the Cooey. I've much more expensive .22's that aren't as accurate as the old Cooey that I bought on here for 50 bucks.
 
22lr said:
what do you call match barrel. Most aftermarket heavy barrels do not feature match chamber, especially those that were made for semi-autos.
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Both my aftermarket heavy barrels have Bentz chambers, on my semi-auto's.

Stingers will wear match chamber because those chambers made shorter and press bullet into rifling when you chamber it. Feeding stingers into those will make casing go into rifling.
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How could soft brass and even softer lead damage hardened steel barrels or rifling? It can't. Increased chamber pressure (due to the bullet starting already driven into the lands) would be the bigger concern in a semi-auto blow-back design, provided that the Stinger round even chambers enough to allow the gun to fire.
 
I have a Winchester 9422, a Cooey 600 & 64, Ruger 10/22ss standard & 22/45ss, and Taurus Tracker, and use nothing but CCI Stingers in them all. They all work flawlessly and the rifling still looks perfect after bricks and bricks of shooting.
 
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