Questions about .22 ammo.....

[toivo]

Fed Champion 510 is sold at Wal-Mart, but at the one near me it is only in the 50 round boxes. Same with Gander.

The sporting goods manager in my local WalMart will sell me bricks of 510. All the regular salespeople insist on selling it by the box only, because they don't know how to ring up the brick. I'm not joking. Carrying home 30 or 40 boxes in a plastic WalMart bag is a royal PITA.

My Marlin 60 would not cycle with the federal 510 bulk pack

Federal 510 doesn't come in bulk pack--only in boxes of 50 or bricks of 10 boxes. Are you sure you're not thinking of the copper-jacketed hollow points that come as 550 rounds in a bulk-pack box? That's not 510, which comes in a blue box. I've never had a problem with 510 in my Model 60, but every rifle is different.

 

[SGW42]

Hey SGW42, let us know your impression of the Winchester wildcat, looks like SG has it pretty cheap.

Bit late, but I finally got to the range and cycled 100 rounds of it through the 39A.

Unremarkable. It didn't shoot as well as the Federal Bulk Pack I had on hand. Last 20 rounds came out kind of stiff from my chamber, so I bet it's dirty too. The way it looks, is packaged, and shoots, it reminds me of Remington Thunderbolt.

Not that expected anything more. I had just never shot it before and it was an impulse buy. Will try it out in my bolt guns if I ever get tired of the Marlin.

 

[Sunray]

"...been paying about $14 a box for Fed-bulk..." Quit doing that. All semi-auto .22's require you to try a box of as many brands as you can to find the ammo it shoots best and cycles the action. The price of said ammo means nothing either. Find the ammo your rifle likes, then buy in bulk.
This applies to centrefires if you're not reloading too.

 

[Jubjub]

I recently shot up the last of a pile of CCI Blazer that I bought when it was on sale at Midway for $90/5000. If I remember correctly, there were a grand total of two or three rounds that got a good firing pin indent and failed to fire out of those 25,000. Since then, I've been shooting Federal 510. They seem to average two or three failures to fire per 500.

I've been told that Blazer and 510 are the same thing with a different headstamp. They are made by the same company. The bullets have an identical profile and cannelures, they shoot in one group when mixed, they even smell the same. But there definitely seems to be something different in the priming, or maybe I just got a really good lot of Blazer.

 

[moooose102]

look at Dunhams Sports if you have one nearby. they often have ammo on sale. i bought several 550 round boxes of remington ammo there a little while ago. it was on sale. i reallly didn't need 22lr ammo @ that point. but the price was so good i couldn't pass it up.

 

[1832]

The Dunham's around Pittsburgh have the Fed American Eagle 36gr bricks on sale for 14.99.

 

[MIL-DOT]

Hey guys, thanks for the replies. This is an old thread, I've since picked up a CZ 452 .22, and lately have been trying to find what it "likes". I've been shooting CCI mini-mags, then standard velocity, and some Wolf Target Match,Federal Auto-match, and Winchester 333 bulk.The CZ seems to like the CCI standard velocity stuff the best, but some of the Winchester groups were up there,too.The highly touted Wolf TM was good, but not $50 a brick good !!
I canceled that order with SG for all the mini-mags ( what an ordeal that was). Then ordered a dozen more boxes of CCI standard velocity from Cheaperthandirt ( using a $10-off code).
I was at Dick's recently and didn't see any Winchester Dynapoints, but I was hunting standard velocity stuff, so coulda missed it, I'll go check again.
And yes, the guys at rimfirecentral have been very helpful, pretty good bunch a dudes over there.
Well, it's a nice,sunny Sunday, and I'm soon off to bust me some more rounds in the country (what's a "range" ? ............