Plus 1 for Mini Mags
I have found that for serious shooting, my Anschutz BR50 gun loves Eley Tenex
Just about any 22 rifle will benefit from shooting higher grade target ammo if you are measuring group size.
I can't say as I agree with that. I've shot Tenex in a dozen .22's or more and it's only been the best in one of them. I always test my firearms with different ammo because every firearm has ammo it likes and ammo it doesn't like. I do find that most guns shoot well with CCI SV but they don't shoot their best with that ammo. I think Wolf dropped off in quality a while back. I rarely buy it now. And I find Eley EPS groups better in almost all of my .22's.
The point I was trying to make is that in general as you move up the price scale with 22 ammunition
If I paid 600 for a pistol and it would crack using cheap high velocity ammo I would say that the gun is cheapI use almost nothing but CCI Standard Velocity, but then most of my .22 shooting is with a High Standard target pistol. I'm not really to enthusiastic about cracking the frame of a $600 (more than ten years ago) pistol using cheap high speed ammunition.
absolutely some of the most accurate ammunition I've seen was old Russian steel cased bulk. It was incredibly dirty, and couldn't be used in a Ruger MkII (bullet bent as if on a ball and socket joint).
I have a few bricks of the older brass cased stuff from the 80s with moderately heavy lube, probably Soviet. It shoots somewhere between CCI Standard and Wolf MT.Yes....the Russian "Junior" .22s. A case of 10 bricks could be had for less than $100. I still have a couple of bricks on the shelf.
Curiously, my Ruger Mk.II is the only gun in which that ammo will shoot reliably. It goes bang in all of them but will stick in the chamber of some.
Pete