Matthew,
I was hoping you would chime here.
I have not hunted with the Gameking, so I cannot comment.
-For Nem's use, I am thinking of "hoarding up to have" to do anything, not so much accuracy , as much as running in whatever.
-The kids I assist with, well, some of what we shoot are OLD inventories of Fed Bulk packs , the American Eagle , X22LR and Mini Mags.... Honest for the kids, and I am not a fan of Remington .22 ammo, they sometimes want to buy a box at the bait shop or whatever, Thunderbolt is inexpensive and if a kids wants to buy a box - why not? We still get .22 shorts and just get whatever. I lucked out and bought a slew of Federal .22 shorts and "rat shot" with the crimped metal cases I prefer over CCI shot shells anyway.
-I'd just as soon shoot standard velocity ammo, Dynapoints were great! Cannot find the darn things. These did not always run in some semis, so I use them in bolt guns, and revolvers.
-When the kids get a new brick, they have shot and let the guns tell them what it shoots best. X22lr and CCI MiniMags are what they have boiled it down to. Sure I / we influenced them, but they have shot some ammo that did not work, and have figured out stuff that don't go bang or other problems,is not worth buying to save a little money.
I mean there is something about a "brick" with the little boxes, I understand this. Some have gotten a bulk pack, and I know , oh yeah I know since the kids saw the little pouches to hold ammo, they will have these. A Grandpa of one of the kids showed them his old one. Naturally it is cool, so, grandpa had to run down something like it and the kids are going to get one.
If you start a 'want' with the kids, you gotta see it through. *snicker* He knew darn well what he was starting. *wink*
I mean two kids decided splitting a box of CCI Mini Mags instead of each getting a box of Thunderbolts. They had problems with T-Bolts and - being kids, just wanted to buy a box of ammo at the store we were at and like I said, kids gotta right to be kids. Heck we adults got a bigger kick out of this than the kids I bet.
-Your Team I suppose is using Standard Velocity - correct?
See , I was concerned with Fed and CCI being under the same umbrella, something would goof up. Win ticked me off with the shotgun shell line, and no longer doing compression formed hulls, cheesy bases , out of spec, and other problems - afraid letting the line, including .22 ammo slide as well.
These 550 bulk packs, were bought some time ago. Darn things work, and the kids do not have a problem with them. They[bulk packs] run semi handguns and rifles.
Oh the kids re-fill some old CCI sleeves/ boxes. But they are cool with taking a scoop, putting a scoopful of shells in a shallow dish, and shooting from that.
Dang old Rem 514 shoots great with this OLD bulk pack stuff too.