Yellow jacket being made again?

[dimeN]

My nylon66 liked them..
Shot a stack of wet phone books and boy do they mushroom well ! Definitely not to use on rabbit or partridge unless its a head shot

Nowadays, its too expensive for a cheepo like me

 

[Mike112288]

Good choice if your using 22lr for gophers. Might as well make it as messy as possible lol

 

[AlbertanBound]

Velocitors and Stingers is all I use now a days for Gophers. I bought a case of each back when they could still be had at $275.00 per case.

I'd be interested in trying stingers but I bought a volquartsen carbon fibre for my build and it states specifically not to shoot CCI stingers

 

[Meroh]

I'd be interested in trying stingers but I bought a volquartsen carbon fibre for my build and it states specifically not to shoot CCI stingers

Stingers have longer brass than a normal .22 LR.

They don't shoot very well out of any of my rifles either.

 

[win94luver]

The yellow jackets were just more Remington garbage.

 

[a j cave]

The yellow jackets were just more Remington garbage.

I do not think so! I’ve shot well over a case of them and a lot of the viper too. They do gopher head shots at 50 yds. They are destructive on the rodents. Mini mags are a little more accurate but don’t have the same effect. As for dirty, I have done many 1000 + round days shooting gophers without cleaning. They don’t load as well in auto loaders ( point shape ). I’m glad I still have over a case left.

 

[Got Juice?]

I'd be interested in trying stingers but I bought a volquartsen carbon fibre for my build and it states specifically not to shoot CCI stingers

Use CCI Cat# 0064 Quik Shok... same hypervelocity as the stinger, in a reg sized case. The only thing it lacks is the pentapoint the stinger has. (quick shoks are reg hollowpoint)

 

[inthehizzy]

Remington rimfire is garbage. Won’t touch any of my kit.

 

[Z06corvette]

I put many bricks through my Winchester 68, they were accurate and hard hitting. My 10/22 not so much.

 

[leveractionjunkie]

My Marlin Mountie loves them, but gophers, magpies and crows sure don’t.

I never had any problems with them.

 

[Halfton]

I never owned a .22 (which was a fair number of all kinds and makes) that would shoot Remington Yellow Jackets or CCI Stingers worth a tinkers hoot. On the other hand most of my rifles loved the old CCI Mini Mags and shot them quite well.

Jim

 

[triggerman42]

I believe yellow jackets were the dirtiest .22 ammo I ever tried. Even worse than the old , stinky , Aguila ammo from about 30 years ago. I'd never buy them again.
I laughed about them "bouncing off a coons skull" though. Your not supposed to hit them , .......with your butt stock ! lololol

 

[Meroh]

I believe yellow jackets were the dirtiest .22 ammo I ever tried. Even worse than the old , stinky , Aguila ammo from about 30 years ago. I'd never buy them again.
I laughed about them "bouncing off a coons skull" though. Your not supposed to hit them , .......with your butt stock ! lololol

I was not even joking about that... and I could tell you some other stories... The "stinky" Aguilas; solid points, were way better "coon candy"; one shot and down they came.

 

[Highwind]

I've had no problem with them. And they work fine in a certain LR rifle.

 

[*lawrence]

I've shot nearly 30,000 rounds of yellow jackets out a bolt action on gophers for over 30 years. I think they are fantastic out to 80 yards and then then fall off after that. In closer ranges their knock down effectiveness is outstanding.

That's been my experience.

 

[Z06corvette]

I found a box at the Calgary gun show, going to try them in my NS522 to see how they perform in that rifle.

 

[Camaroguy]

My NS522 shoots yellow jackets very well. It's my fall grouse rifle/ammo combo.

 

[gobigorgohome]

I never owned a .22 (which was a fair number of all kinds and makes) that would shoot Remington Yellow Jackets or CCI Stingers worth a tinkers hoot. On the other hand most of my rifles loved the old CCI Mini Mags and shot them quite well.

Jim

Its funny you mention the stinger with them. Accuracy with my savage Mark 2 was always decent (not great though) with the stinger, but they loved to jam in everything I shot (probably from the longer case). I even had them double feed in a 10/22 and blow up in my face. Yellow jackets also loved to jam up (probably from how dirty they were). Federal blue box for general purpose plinking now and SK Standard Plus for target shooting!

 

[AlbertanBound]

Saw some for sale in Lethbridge yesterday. Expensive as hell but looks like they might be back in production