Which .22 LR plinking ammo is cleanest?

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I'm playing around with a couple Vostok Margolin .22 pistols these days, and one is particular seems to be a little picky about function when its dirty. Using the Remington pail of crap loads it doesn't take much before rounds have difficulty chambering. Cleaning the chamber restores function immediately. Oddly, the other one doesn't care.

So yesterday I was ready to park the picky one for the day when it was down to chambering between half and 2 out of three on its own. It as about time to quit anyway. About the time I was packed up to go I stumbled onto a bunch of the cheapest Winchester and figured I had nothing to lose. After baby sitting/ forcing a couple into the chamber it suddenly decided that Winchester was self cleaning and ripped through a couple boxes with nary a stutter or hang up.

Beyond the obvious solution of using Winchester in that gun; it got me wondering if some brands were known to be cleaner or dirty than others? I'm not so much concerned about accuracy as pure function in semi autos. What has a fighting chance of running longer?
 
I've always had good luck with CCI Mini-Mags, which costs more than bulk ammo of course, but if you can find it on sale, it's decent ammo.
 
Not in that gun but I've always thought Winchester Super-x was the best (being most accurate and and most effective). American Eagle has been the least reliable for me. Yellow Jacket, Mini-mag, Wildcat etc just being fancy names.
 
Generally he title reads "What is the dirtiest ammo?"

One would think the major manufacturers did to testing to make certain they were selling a clean product but then they also sell cleaning products which is undoubtedly where they park their product development coin.

With Standard velocity rounds using roughly one grain of powder and high velocity around 1.5 grains it may just not be worth the effort.

What is in one that makes it dirty and the next that is not quite as dirty in one man's opinion?
 
MiG25 said:
Not in that gun but I've always thought Winchester Super-x was the best (being most accurate and and most effective). American Eagle has been the least reliable for me. Yellow Jacket, Mini-mag, Wildcat etc just being fancy names.
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Cabelas had a sale going on 1000 packs of Winchester for 70 bucks today, so I slipped over there for a couple thousand. That should be enough to know how it works. In the spirit of being cheap i managed to use a couple expired $20 coupons too. ;)
 
Aguilla ammo has really impressed me. Clean, cycles well in semi autos and rarely has a ftf. Price isn't terrible and is surprisingly accurate at 50 yards in a rifle.
 
x2 on the aguila, I also like federal.

I very much prefer remington over winchester in general, but it's not a clean burning ammo.

CCI is great (although the subsonic ones burn dirty), but expensive
 
CCI Blazer or Federal. Blazers are essentially lead round nosed Minimags, but cheaper.

Winchester is dirty by comparison and Remington rimfire ammo is straight garbage.
 
Winchester is garbage. My cz 452 has extraction issues yesterday for the first time in almost a decade of use. Was shooting my garbage ammo to get rid of it. Winchester in the black tactical box. When I finally extracted the casings they had black grippy soot in some areas on the outside of the case. I image I need to clean her good and shoot better ammo again. Blazers, mini mags and federal have been the cleanest so far. Have some Aguila match stuff I wanna try get for groups
 
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