Your favourite 22LR detachable rifle magazines?

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Hi all - I'm interested in your favourite detachable magazines for 22LR rifles. I find many of them poorly designed, cheaply made, and/or hard to use. There must be some great options out there.

What's your favourite design, and why?
 
My favourite design so far is the factory 10 round rotary in a Ruger 10-22 - I have owned that one in 22 Long Rifle since late 1970's - many (like dozens of) "bricks" of .22 Long Rifle through it, and I never had a failure to feed, ever. I have two Ruger branded magazines for it - one of them must be the original one. I have Ruger 77-22 Magnum and Ruger 96-22 Magnum with similar 9 round mags - again, two magazines for each of both rifles, which interchange - no problems with them.

Previous to that 10-22, I had a Remington Nylon 10C in 22 LR - I had a total of 5 x 10 round mags and they all would do the same. I doubt I could go through two magazines worth without a failure to feed at least once. There are a couple of CZ 452 in 22 LR - a Silhouette and a Scout - and a BRNO No. 1 - they seem to work fine - metal or plastic magazines - single shot "trainer mag", 5 round or 10 round mag - they all work fine and interchange among those rifles.

I have several Savage 93 here - but none in 22 Long Rifle - seem to generally work not bad in the 22 Magnum - but latest one in 17 HMR likes to run the pointy tip into the flat end of the barrel below the chamber - stops things right there - and I am still fussing to figure out the solution for that - seems that one is very fussy how the ammo gets loaded into those Savage magazines - is total of five Savage magazines here - all feed 22 Magnum just fine in those 22 Mag rifles, but jam up in the 17 HMR - Savage sells those mags for use in BOTH 22 Mag and 17 HMR - same thing occurs with either 5 round or 10 round version.
 
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The RimX magazine is the most well designed 22lr magazine to this date. It is double stack, never rimlocks, has a comfortable to handle follower, and is easy to load without tools.
 
I’m personally a huge fan of the Ruger 10/22 mags. Tough,easy loading,reliable,cheap and easy to clean. Plus there are millions of them.
 
I have to agree with above, the 10/22 mags for the most part have been the best. Once you spend a few minutes to tune them up, and the rifle they just run.

The rimX has been the most trouble free with no tuning required, but when you look at the cost of them, they should be nothing but working.

I also now have an annie, and I hate the magazines for them, and they are not cheap. Just a crap system for the price of that rifle.
 
Ruger 10-rd rotary in a 77/22. They fit flush, which is nice for carrying, and seem fairly secure, so there's not much worry about them dropping out accidentally. I once found my one and only Gevarm mag lying in the driveway coming home from school one spring day, and I hadn't even realized I'd lost it. It still worked, but it was a little rusty and dented from being run over.
 
Browning Buckmark mags, when I had the pistol and rifle, my buddy 3D printed a mag loader, it was so easy to load, just drop the cartridges into the magazine. Similar to the image I posted
 

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I have yet to have any mag issues with any of my CZ's. Including 5,10, and 25 rounders in 452, 455, 457, and even my 512 semi auto.

Both steel and plastic seem to work equally fine. Pretty decent when a mag runs the same in a semi auto and bolt action.
 
Mostly shoot bolt guns... I like CZ mags (5 and 10 rounders) and Vudoo mags (haven't had any issues loading them correctly, pull down tabs are nice, and the plastic ones are light weight). Anschutz mags and their mag releases, I like the least.

Surprised at the number of ruger rotary 10 rounder responses... I find them a pita to load... what am I missing?
 
Another vote for all things 10/22 - factory or Butler Creek.

for a bolt, the Scorpio EM332A steels mags are near bomb proof. They will need TLC... but once set up, feed smoothly and fast. If you can make them work in an Annie 54, it is a great mag.

One of my worst was the Savage MkII... not by design but by manf. Why would a factory not spend the week to make sure the machines are stamping things properly? They have had decades to fix an ongoing issue.

Jerry
 
Out of all I have owned, CZ followed by Savage Mk2 (sorry Jerry, they are cheap and never had one not work). CZ either in plastic or steel, 5 round or 10, beautiful magazines. Affordable too. Never been a fan of the 10/22 platform or the magazine's, so take that for what it's worth.
 
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