Does bad 22 lr ruin an accurate rifle?

22LR ammo may lead a barrel.

Not silly at all. A 22 LR in S&W M17 revolver with Rem. promo ammo formed a ring just past the leade, in the rifling. Didn't believe it. Cleaned gun and refired, watching lead ring build. Accuracy went away. Never happened before or since . No damage was done. You would have to fire another bullet into a blockage, in a barrel, to damage it. IMO.

My Custom CZ Bench gun shoots wolf ammo, I keep 5 or six bricks around all the time.. when I can't get Wolf, I get SK.... its the same stuff, from the same factory... the reason why I like Wolf is it makes the tightest groups and is repeatable after 300 rounds... Wolf is lubricated, and reacts very favorably in my gun,
I want rounds where the quality control is good enough to be repeatable from lot to lot.
I like lubricated rounds in my High Standard Victor comp pistol and in My CZ comp bench gun.

Three places have Wolf ammo in stock right now, both wolf match and wolf extra.

http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/rimfire/22lr/

Wolf Match Extra 22lr 40gr RN Ammo - 50 Rounds $0.18/rd [$8.99] in stock Match [Ventura Munitions]
22LR Ammo Wolf Performance 40gr Match Target 500 Round Box $0.13/rd [$64.99] in stock Match [Ammunition Store]
22LR WOLF 40gr SK Match Target Ammo, 500rd Brick. $0.18/rd [$89.95] in stock Match [J&G Sales]

Does bad 22 lr ruin an accurate rifle?

Does it ruin a perfectly good rifle? No, because we clean the rifle. I have fired Wolf Target and the stuff, while a little dirty, groups well out of an Anschutz target rifle I have. Sooner or later all rifles need cleaned, that is my thinking anyway. The more a rifle bore becomes fouled with leading the more the accuracy will begin to suffer. Does it ruin the rifle? No, it just renders the rifle in need of a good cleaning. The Wolf ammunition shoots fine for me. Certainly no worse than some other ammunition. Depending on the rifle, some ammunition will shoot better than other ammunition. I like Wolf and the lubed bullets. I also shoot some of the lower end Eley and Remington Target plus a variety of Aguila ammunition. Even low end Remington Thunderbolts and Winchester. Nothing will ruin the rifle, just get it dirty. Nothing a good ocasional cleaning won't fix.

Just My Take....
Ron

Ruin? Like permanently? No.

Lead up, yep. Impact accuracy, of course. Why do you think it's in bulk?

do stay away from thunderbolt.
i believe it could damage my 22/45. not sure about rifles.
i use federal bulk for plinking but i use wolf for serious work. it gives me better groups than even eley.

i have a long thread where people talk about thunderduds at the ruger forum. ''thunderbolt 22lr warning''. search that n read those posts.

Only .22 ammo I have had a problem with, in terms of reliability and accuracy, is anything made by Remington. The Top Three in my guns are Wolf, CCI, and Federal.

I was talking about accurate ammo... not ammo that hurts a rifle...none of todays ammo will hurt a rifle but hurt its performance.. there is a world of difference between a Remington golden bullet and Wolf match , the golden bullet is used for plinking, hitting steel plates, cans , balloons, critters... Wolf match puts five bullets in the same hole.
The OP was talking wolf, that's why I mentioned it...that why I posted the gun bot. net link, it offers up real time availability with a link to the seller. Every thing is available if shooting is more precious to you than a few bucks.

my gun likes wolf better than stuff costing twice as much.
it will give me a 1'' group at 25 yards in a 22/45, 5 1/2'' bull barrel.
none of the others i tested will do that.
no, i'm not claiming i can do that free hand....yet.

This sounds more silly as I'm typing this.

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You answered your own question!

FWIW, there's nothing wrong with CCI Standard Velocity, it's probably the best quality .22 you're likely to find at a sporting goods store.

If you'd like to feel better about using your match ammo in the CZ Ultra Lux, spend $125 for a set of Brno Standard Target Sights. Cheaper than a good scope and you'll be very surprised at how accurate that long barreled rifle will be with these aperture sights.

Can't say that cheap ammo will hurt a rifle but I'm doing my best to try.

I guess I've put well over a hunert rounds of golden bullets through a CZ trainer today with no ill effects that I can see. Then again, I'm only shooting at 25 yards off hand at a 6" target. Afterwords fired 10 rounds of CCI quite from a field rest and got ~2" at 25 yards. I don't think I hurt anything but my ego.

Five shot per bull at 50 yards.. first 2 bulls with a cold barrel.. this is a fifty shot target

Wolf Match

Nice! I need to try some Wolf Match.

I've been finding excellent results with Eley Target through my Kimber 82, like one 45 cal-sized hole at 50. Smelly ammo though.

Evil twin at 18 cents a round I'll settle for cci for now.

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AT 0.18 a round, I'd shoot 9mm instead.

bikemutt said:

Nice! I need to try some Wolf Match.

I've been finding excellent results with Eley Target through my Kimber 82, like one 45 cal-sized hole at 50. Smelly ammo though.

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Its not about money for some, its about repeatability.. if a 5 cent round works for anybody, that's great, I know what works in my fire arms and what I expect at the target. But usually better ammo cost more money. But then if you are only shooing cans it doesn't much mater. Its all about fun within your budget...

13 cents a round.... just offering a source.

https://www.targetsportsusa.com/wolf-match-target-22-lr-ammo-40-grain-lrn-p-3350.aspx

Does bad 22 lr ruin an accurate rifle?

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I'm still trying to figure out the definition of "bad" 22lr??

I've never had any bad 22lr, at least it's not bad until someone drops it on the ground and picks it back up!

I HAVE had some that's not as accurate as others, but it's not bad ammo.

DM

I won't buy Remington Thunderbolts. Too many FTFs in my MkII. Wife's 10/22 shoots them just fine, though. Go figure.

I've almost always shot Winchester Wildcats through it. They don't get much cheaper than that. It's never caused a problem that I would consider ruining it. Just gets dirty. I use a bore snake, too, most of the time. You should be fine with what you're doing.

i've used most the bulk ammos. they are not very accurate but only thunderbolt scares me so much i wouldn't use it for free.
since the thunderbolt, i have not tried any remington, n i won't.

yall need to do yourself a favor and buy some Tenex.....



100yds supported prone.

I found wolf/SK to be very inconsistent in cooler weather. I personally don't consider cci-sv a step down in quality. ymmv.