Ammo Testing for Henry H001 22

Better grouping ammo tends to be subsonic

Depending on your intended use, 1 hole at 25 yards with dirt cheap ammo might be a blessing.

I would bet money that CCI standard will group better than anything other than the $10+ per 50 match stuff.

25 yds is pretty close for a rifle. You wont see real accuracy differences until you’re out past 50.

The sub-1” group with cheap Blazer ammo was shot with an open-sighted Rossi 62A at 25 yds., rested on a foam shooting block. At 50 I will expect them to more than double in size, at 100 I’d be thrilled to keep all the shots in the 8-ring.



If you can shoot out to 50 or beyond you will really get a chance to see what your Henry and ammo can do.

Stay safe.

Of the 5 you have listed my experience is that they will all do well. Mini Mags seem to run the most accurate in mine. On the other hand mine will run any 22 ammo, including Collibris.

My H001 carbine at 100 yards with 36gr mini mags. The H001 rifle shoots about the same.

Skylerbone said:

Depending on your intended use, 1 hole at 25 yards with dirt cheap ammo might be a blessing.

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I have a buddy who's probably a more notorious tinkerer than me.

He's got a 10/22 that he refuses to do any kind of modification to at all because of how well it shoots blazer and thunderbolt bulk packs.

He's like the opinion that "yes, it could shoot better ammo into smaller groups, but then I'd be stuck having to find and buy more expensive, harder to find ammo."

Which I absolutely cannot find fault in.

gotboostvr said:

I have a buddy who's probably a more notorious tinkerer than me.

He's got a 10/22 that he refuses to do any kind of modification to at all because of how well it shoots blazer and thunderbolt bulk packs.

He's like the opinion that "yes, it could shoot better ammo into smaller groups, but then I'd be stuck having to find and buy more expensive, harder to find ammo."

Which I absolutely cannot find fault in.

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One of my brothers is just like that.

I've got one of those Henry's H001 rifles too. I've found mine to be very accurate out to 50 yards or so with a wide variety of ammo. I've had more trouble with it feeding 22lr, since it started its life shooting exclusively CBs.

Never did any formal comparison ammo testing with my Henry H001 because it seems to shoot just about anything good. Although a few years ago it had a Tasco Red Dot on it for about a year and that was when I began to notice how some brands of ammo seemed to group tighter than others versus when I was using the iron sights. I should have made some notes about it before I took the Red Dot off. All I can recall now is that it seemed to really like the Federal Auto Match 22LR, which the OP has some of and I hope we can find out how well that is in his Henry H001. Keep us posted.

There aren’t many decent 22s that won’t do quarter sized groups at 25 yards. Fifty is where the gun/ammo start to perform, or not. 100 is the test of both plus your ability to focus, hold and read wind. My stable, a CZ456, Win 52 (from the 20’s, a built up 10-22 with Shaw/Bentz, Jard, etc, and a TC carbine match barrel 22 will all, when I’m on, the wind cooperates and each one’s preferred ammo will do one hole 1/2” at fifty and when I’m really good, not often these days, an inch to inch and a half at 100. I wish I had my 21 year old eyes and nerves in my 78 year old body.

I have had Thunderbolts that shot better than some match ammo. Just depends on the lot number, the gun and the shooter.

You find with Smallbore Prone and 22 lr F Class shooters that ammunition perfection is a utopic dream. The best shooters test a lot of lots of expensive match ammunition to find the very best. They are looking for ammunition that holds half the ten ring, and for F Class shooters, that may be beyond the capability of the ammunition.

Very good match ammunition will hold the ten ring at 50 yards and never leave. These are two targets on the same relay by two National Champs shooting prone with a sling. Each bull has five rounds for record, making the total number of shots 20.







this is the 50 meter target by one of these shooters



These guys are shooting very expensive ammunition through very expensive rifles and I am skeptical that any lever action is capable of this level of consistency even with high priced ammunition.



When I have conducted my own testing with cheap match ammunition, I find low velocity shots happen.





an F Class bud was using TAC and had this amazing low velocity shot at 100 yards







he decided that cheap ammunition was not going to work for him, so he purchased Eley Black box and got much better results




I did take my CCI SV out and shoot it in a match rifle to see how it would do with a rest. Shot surprisingly well





If your ammunition will consistently hold an inch at 50 yards, that is good enough for all the squirrel hunting I ever did. When I tested my ruger 10/22 with its factory barrel, it was very sensitive to brand of ammunition, and I really did not detect the sensitivity until I moved the target out to 50 yards. When I had a Volquartsen barrel installed, the differences between ammunition groups lessened, and which ammunition shot best was racked and restacked. Whereas match ammunition was not so great in the factory barrel, it shot super duper well in the Volquartsen barrel. A better tube shoots better ammunition better.