On 22 ammo

gcp · Post by **gcp** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:49 pm

Gents, I bought a box of Remingtons 22 Golden bullet 550 high velocity and a box of xpert 33 HPs. Do any of you shoot them and if so is this ammo any good?

Thanks,

recumbent · Post by **recumbent** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:27 pm

Ive had bad luck with Remington 22 ammo so I don't buy it anymore. Lots of FTFs.

The Experts are OK. My favorite plinking and bowling pin ammo is Federal 550 round bulk pack from walmart and CCI Blazers.

Post by **Bullseye** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:15 am

I hope you have good luck with the Remington bullets, many have not. I don't shoot them in my guns.

R,
Bullseye

Song Dawg · Post by **Song Dawg** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:27 am

gcp, There was a time when Rem GB's weren't bad! But that was then and ..... Too dirty and inconsistent for my likin'! Xperts are OK!

But I also go with the Fed Bulks for plinking and small varmint dispatching
They're reliable, consistent and priced right!

SD

gcp · Post by **gcp** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:54 am

Thank you gentlemen, I'll take the Remingtons back then and buy another box of the Winchesters.

My Remington 552 rifle seems to shoot the GBs well, when they go bang, it gives me better groups with them than any other I tried so far, to include CCIs but as I said I did have 3-4 FTFs.....

Adam67 · Post by **Adam67** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:57 pm

Since I'm new to this and will be doing some bullseye shooting I'm going to be testing a fair amount f ammo to see what works best. Very informally I have already tested:

CCI Blazer - goes bang every time.....accuracy.....ok
Federal Gold Medal - not as 100% as the Blazers but tighter groups.
ELEY Practice 100 (AKA Practice USA, Standard Brown box and Standard Pistol) - I really liked this one....tightest groups so far.

I'm going to be trying the cheaper (and made by Aguila in Mexico) ELEY Sport for comparison.....I'm hoping it makes a decent practice round since it's $1.60 a box.

Also looking to try out Wolf Match Target, RWS Target and CCI Standard Velocity.

I'm looking for the best (cheap) ammo for practice.....and then the best moderate priced stuff for competition.

Song Dawg · Post by **Song Dawg** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:42 pm

CCI's are excellent however they're not in the same price range as the ammo you've mentioned. Fed Bulk, Rem GB, Xperts (CCI) Blazers are all priced for plinkin'
When I mentioned that Rem at one time was acceptable you've reminded me that it was in my 552. That gun does shoot!

SD

melchloboo · Post by **melchloboo** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:31 pm

Eley sports (purple box) are extremely popular in my club. However, I can't find them anywhere, please let me know if you find some online.

I feel as a beginner it is unlikely I will outshoot the ammo, so I try to buy the cheapest that will be reliable and not too messy. The Federal bulk at walmart has proven to be excellent for this purpose. When the shot felt great, the round usually hit X. When it felt bad, the round is no more or less off then I thought. I have a fun match on sunday, I will probably just go with the Federal bulk rather than buy something else.

Also, I have heard that with the ruger mkIII some of the cheaper ammo actually gives groupings as tight or tighter than then more expensive stuff.

Adam67 · Post by **Adam67** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:56 pm

melchloboo wrote:Eley sports (purple box) are extremely popular in my club. However, I can't find them anywhere, please let me know if you find some online.

I feel as a beginner it is unlikely I will outshoot the ammo, so I try to buy the cheapest that will be reliable and not too messy. The Federal bulk at walmart has proven to be excellent for this purpose. When the shot felt great, the round usually hit X. When it felt bad, the round is no more or less off then I thought. I have a fun match on sunday, I will probably just go with the Federal bulk rather than buy something else.

Also, I have heard that with the ruger mkIII some of the cheaper ammo actually gives groupings as tight or tighter than then more expensive stuff.

Here you go: http://www.championshooters.com/store/p ... ductid=690

Well it appears they are out of stock as well......nice of them to mention that BEFORE I ordered.....dorks.

recumbent · Post by **recumbent** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:27 pm

I heard the same thing about eley Sport but it does not give good groups in any of my pistols.

So when the weather warms up I'll try it in my rifles.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:20 pm

I've not had good luck with Rem Golden Bullets in any rimfire. None of the horror stories of barrel leading after a small number rounds, just issues with feeding and consistency. Xpert22 works well in most pistols but I've had some feed problems in my P22.

Excluding some problems with a box of Fed Automatch (Federal replaced the box), I've done well with all Federal and CCI ammo. The standard velocity ammo seems to give better groups.

gcp · Post by **gcp** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:41 am

Well gang, Saturday I had a bit of time to shoot my .22 Speedmaster. Maybe it's because it's a Remington built rifle, who knows, but it rather likes the Rem GB when it comes to accuracy, by a far margin! All others, to include Winchesters, Federal and surprisingly even the CCIs shot pitiful groups in comparison (with CCI a far second).

Granted it was a windy day so all bets might be off with no wind but I thought I'd share my findings non-the-less. BTW, I am not too impressed with this rifle, no where near as accurate as my J. Higgins...

Tigerbeetle · Post by **Tigerbeetle** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:31 am

The wind must have been hollowing! Those targets look more like hand gun targets than rifle. :shock When I was a kid I shot Remington probably more than anything else. In the Winchester 62 pump I had, I used to shoot some .22 short called a Viper, I think. Came in little flat boxes of 28. Some kind of composite bullet I think, because it would go through a 2X4 and not even be deformed. Real quick too. Anybody remember them? Are they still being made? Since I kind of got back into shooting .22s over the last couple months I have been using up a 500 round box of Rem. Gold HPs. I think I have had a FTF in the hand guns, but I don't recall any in the Browning ATD or target rifle.

I have just bought a brick of Xpert HPs and Fed HPs, so hopefully in the next week or so, I can shoot some of them and see what happens.

What I miss here is the beauty of hand loading my .270 and creating charges that would put 110 PSPBTs, 130 HPs, and 150 gr. Nozlers all in the bull, or 12:00 incrementally higher at 100 yards.

TB

gcp · Post by **gcp** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:47 pm

Yes the wind was strong and the my shooting horrid. Hand gun targets nothing, I can do better with a sling

Blindpig · Post by **Blindpig** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:50 am

It's always seem to me that in order to get small groups it takes a good quality, consistent ammo. My CZ452 American likes CCI Green Tag the best but the darn stuff is about 12 bucks a box now! The American is a little like my wife in that regard but as I always say, cute chicks are high maintenance.

Here's an example of the results with the Green Tag. It was a bit windy that day; when in Oklahoma is it not windy?

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Interesting findings

Windy!