What's your favourite ammo for your 10/22?

What type of ammo do you feed your 10/22?

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I've been trying lots of different ammo for my 10/22 to see what cycles best and produces the best accuracy. My priorities are:
1: absolutely reliable feeding & extraction
2: has to be a hollow point game bullet
3: price
4: accuracy

I've tried Federal American Eagles, and they fail at #1, as do the Champion bulk packs, producing frequent stovepipes. Accuracy wasn't too hot either.

Winchester XPert's also fail #1 - they extract fine, but often jam up on the feed ramp. Accuracy was the second best of all the ammo I tried.

Remington Yellow jackets produce similar results to the XPerts.

CCI quik-shok and Stingers fed and extracted the best out of all ammo tested, but it's pricey and accuracy isn't great.

Remington Sub Sonics feed and extract fine, usually, but produce occasional stovepipes

The best ammo I've found has been the Remington Cyclones. I've never had a stovepipe, and accuracy is the best of all types tested.
 
Thunderbolts/Cyclones for rather inexpensive ammo works just fine but is dirty..not a problem if you don't mind cleaning your gun now and then.
I use it in all my .22's and the accuracy is just fine.
I've seen the Remington Gameloads on the shelf but haven't tried them yet(still have 6000 rounds to go through of old stuff),maybe give them a try..
Stovepiping in a .22??? you better check the condition of your mags..or stop firing from an open bolt ;)
 
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- CCI subsonic won't even chamber in my rifle
- Federal Gold Medal doesn't cycle well in my rifle
- Remington subsonic cycles perfectly and depending on the lot are very accurate or are so-so at best.
- Remington Target are excellent but haven't shot enough to make a decision yet.
- American Eagle are the go to rounds for me so far. The cycle excellent, are a hollowpoint, very cheap and are really accurate out of my rifle.

So far these are all that I have tried.
 
I have had no problem with anything from CCI, and love stingers but velocitors even more. Fair bit of oomph in for a 22.


I hate AE ammo in .22lr and winchester white box for that matter. Both suck.
 
For my relatively stock 10/22 I'd say American Eagle 38g HP. Winchester Dynapoints work pretty good as well. These two are the 'best bang for the buck' in my 10/22.
 
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Prosper,

Try the CCI Velocitors. 40 grn. hyper velocity. More smack than the Stingers IMO. Better accuracy out of my rimfires, also.
 
Mini-mags, Stingers, Velocitors and Quick-shoks all cycle the best out of anything I have ever shot. Mini-mags are the #1 for me.
 
I use Lapua SC in my 10/22. Not to expensive, very accurate and very reliable :). But it is not a hollow point. For hollow points I would definately use winchester powerpoints. Hard hitting, accurate, and very reliable :)
 
Personally I have had most success with Remington 40 gr high velocity "Golden Bullets". They seem to give me the best value for money in reliability and accuracy. If I was a rich man though, I would feed my pig nothing but CCI Minimags.
 
My 10/22 doesn't like Dynapoints or Gameloads, but that was before I re-radius'd my bolt and polished the internals... we'll see how they do now.
 
I see the 22LR ammo for hunting divided in two.
While Match ammo is the best for target, most lack the HP feature and velocity.... so they are out.
The two categories are :
A: cheap high velocity HP ammo that shoots well in a particular rifle
B: Good ammo, more expensive, that has plenty of power and the only thing that one has to trade is brand-velocity-accuracy.

A: I choose to do all my plinking at the range with bulk ammo that shoots well in my rifle. In my Savage, I noted that Remington HP works very well. Not much luck with Federal or any of the Winchesters.... even though the huge gap of the "Expert" is appealing.
I also hunt with it, since I am sometimes too lazy to change the scope settings for hunting.

B. All of the bullets that are remotely attractive for your eye must be tried.
So far, the best accuracy goes to Minimag, but nobody would argue that an animal (of appropriate size) hit with a Supermaximum, Velocitor or Stinger will go very far. I have 3 rimfires and they all like different stuff. I would stay away from Aguila in 10-22 , or any semi for that matter. They are not the cleanest burning.
I modified my bolt in the 10-22 so it would cycle the Rem subsonic, and I did take it hunting, but unless tha quarry was very close, I wouldn't use it. Headshots only.
The Savage likes More than one Remington ammo. I thing it grouped the YellowJackets the best @ 50m.

Most of 22 bullets would kill by shock, not wound channel. Penetration usually means liitle. I wanted to try the Paco tool, but got busy moving..... so maybe later..
I never tried the 60 grainers on game. Did any of you?
 
For hollow points I second the American Eagle 38g HP. Accuracy is decent and velocity is good. I can plink at the gongs from 200 yards and reliably hit them. Also no feeding or stove pipe issues.

For accuracy. The CCI high velocity 40 grain solids weren't bad.
The cheap Eagle 40 grains solids were decent as well.

The Lapua Super club really brought my group sizes down. 5 round groups at 25 yards are one hole the size of the the fingertip on your pinky.
That's very decent accuracy for a stock K10/22T with a 3-9x scope that doesn't have the adjustable objective (no parallex correction). That's at about 6 times magnification. I've been extremely impressed with the Lapua Super club.

For hunting I would probably go with the eagle HP 38 g. The problem of course is the POI for Lapua Super club is different than the Eagle. The eagle POI seems to be about the same as the Eagle 40 grain solids. So you can't just change it without resighting your scope.
 
Well, I just got back from the range. I put a very aggressive radius on the bolt (I was concerned I might have gone overboard), and replaced the hammer and some internals with lighter volquartsen parts, as well as replaced a few springs with lighter ones. Today, I only had ONE stovepipe. Out of a brick and a half! The Federal american eagles and champions which had previously stovepiped on EVERY SINGLE shot now worked flawlessly! Though it has come with a price - performance with hyper velocity has resulted in excessively violent operation of the action. Ah well, I have no intention of going with the hypers in this gun anyway, too expensive.

So, when I first bought my 10/22, I vowed I wouldn't upgrade it. Now I have an aftermarket Volquartsen tune-up kit installed. Though I'm not counting that as an upgrade; rather a 'repair' - the gun wouldn't work properly with certain types of ammo without the parts. And now I'm considering an aftermarket heavy barrel - the sporter gets scorchingly hot disturbingly quickly now that I'm able to do full 25-round mag dumps without any jams
 
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