Yesterday I took my daughter to Hunter Safety Training/ Junior Rifle Club. The range instructor was mentioning all the trouble they were having with the last batch of T22 ammo. They use Anschutz CIL/190 guns. They were getting some misfires, and some of rounds were so bad they couldn't close the bolts on some guns. One round had several deep firing pin strikes all around the rim but still wouldn't fire. Myself I prefer using RWS or Lapua finding the T22 to be reliable enough but a lower quality target ammo. They said considering all the rounds fired they can't afford the more expensive match ammo. For $1.25 each shooting session the kids get a target sheet and 10 rounds.
Problems with T22 ammo?
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I think I'd be tempted to splurge & up the sessions to a toony each and maybe 15 rounds and buy different/better ammo. That many misfires can't help the youngsters concentration much. Good experience handling FTF but too many can become irritating.
I shot a bunch last summer and had alot of bad flyers and 1 to 4 or 5 duds in each box. Rifle was a Remington Model 5 that shot around 1/2" @ 50 yds with Rem subs. The T22 had the occasional tight group in the sub MOA range when I'd get 1 or 2 flyers as much as 5" away from the group in a 5 shot string.
I would highly recommend you mention to the instructor to dump that ammo and find a different batch or better quality. What is he going to do with a hang fire? its more common in 22 poor quality ammo than any other. These kids need to be using safe ammo.
