Ammo for Model 60

[SlipperyShooter]

Gander Mountain has a decent sale on .22 ammo and I'm hoping someone can recommend the most reliable for a marlin Model 60.

Options are as follows:

$1.95
( Compare at $2.29)
thru Aug 8
Federal® Lightning™, Peters® solid tip, Winchester® Wildcat .22LR lead round nose, or Remington® Thunderbolt high velocity .22 LR rimfire ammo. Box of 50.

 

[MIL-DOT]

Wow,I was going to post this same question today !! I'm leaning towards a bulk-load of CCI's, but i'm also waiting to hear what all the 60 owners prefer.
Also, from what i've read the,the Remington Thunderbolts don't come too highly recommended.

 

[akolleth]

Of all the bulk type 22lr ammo I have run through my Marlin 60 the one it preferred the most is Federal bulk pack, available for $12/550 at Wally World. Fairly clean, and good accuracy. Never once had a FTF with those.

And a BIG +1 on staying away from thunderbolts, they were most dirty and innaccurate of all the bulk pack ones I tried in my 60-

 

[220_Swift]

Of all the bulk type 22lr ammo I have run through my Marlin 60 the one it preferred the most is Federal bulk pack, available for $12/550 at Wally World. Fairly clean, and good accuracy. Never once had a FTF with those.

That has been my experience also. The Federal bulk pack gave the best results in terms of reliability, and accuracy. Many a tree rat has met there end with that combo. Good shooting.

 

[Claymore1500]

I don't own a mod60 personally, but I have seen several that had problems with any ammo that has plated cases (nickle,chrome or whatever), The plating seems to add just enough to case diameter to cause them to stick in the chamber.

I almost got a free gun once due to this, I handed the guy some rem. nonplated and told him to try it, it was like a different gun, his brick of plated worked well in my glenfield bolt.

 

[rangerruck]

federal or winchester bulk pacs, are the ONLY ONES TO USE!!!! do not use cci, or remmy bulk pacs ever. they are the most dirty, and the most inconsistent.
Look on those same shelves, for the red box american Eagle. They are also made by federal and proly better than those listed above. otherwise go with your choices of winny or feddy.
I allways recommend 5 choices of ammo for 22 peeps to try; Eley, Aguila, Golden Eagle, american Eagle red box, Remmy/orange box or yellow box.
Now then, the last two are made for remmy by eley, and the 2nd and 3rd are also made by Eley, but from diff countries, but they will all be diff types of Eley, and usually at diff prices.
After the above, you look at cci, but my God, not the bulk pac stuff, look at the standard velocity, green tag, or the hi velocity solids, or hollow points.

 

[Landlocked Pirate]

Of all the bulk type 22lr ammo I have run through my Marlin 60 the one it preferred the most is Federal bulk pack, available for $12/550 at Wally World. Fairly clean, and good accuracy. Never once had a FTF with those.

Same here, applies to all 5 model 60's in my house. I have found a couple of .22 mags in these bulk boxes, though, and one of them tied the gun up pretty good when it was accidentally loaded.

 

[AmishFury]

+1 for federal bulk pack ammo

 

[rxraptor02]

I have a newer model 60 and my brother has a really old one. way back we used to shoot the bricks of the rem thunderbolts. We never had any major issues just a few duds. we used to setup quarters on haybails in the back yard. The ammo was accurate and always killed the pop cans/coins and the tree rats.




The federal bulk pack stuff seems to get good reviews and it also works really well in my Ruger MKIII and single six and Marlin 60. I hope it works well in the 10/22 that I am getting next weekend.

 

[SlipperyShooter]

When you say "Federal Bulk Pack" is that the same things as "Federal Lightning"

 

[220_Swift]

When I said Federal bulk pack, I meant the Champion 36gr copper plated hp. Comes in a box of 525.

Looks like this.

 

[SlipperyShooter]

Now THAT is a helpful post. Thank you!

 

[akolleth]

Well the ones I get from Wally World come in a 550 round box, not 525, and look like this

 

[sig2022shooter]

I prefer the federal bulk that other people have mentioned.

 

[rangerruck]

any bulk pac from feddy is acceptable, they make another as well, but you don't see them as much...

 

[plainsbilly]

red or blue fed bulk box the black box just seems to act "off" in my mod 60s all three of them

 

[jrfoxx]

I have fired everything on your list, as well as some others, and all of it worked fine (as far as function at least) in my model 60 just fine. Accuracy seemd pretty much the same on all of it too, but I honestly have only plinked with it so far, and its only sighted in to be plinking/squirrel/random-up-close-varmint-of-opportunity accurate right now, so I havent really tried to specifically test diffrent rounds yet to see what it is most accurate with.

 

[M249MachineGun]

My M60 likes CCI Blazer, but not Federal.

 

[captainamerica]

I have shot a number of 22 LR shells in my 19 year old Model 60 and the cleanest and most reliable is and has always been CCI MiniMags. Over time the cheaper, dirtier shells seem to have increased in reliability but still eventually fail much sooner than CCI's. I've stuck with them even though the price is much steeper b/c of this and clean up is so much quicker/easier than with the dirtier stuff. But each Model 60 has it's own nuances and requires the proper ammo testing, cleaning, and in most cases polishing/buffing/lubing to get it up to speed even though the high velocity stuff seems to be a front runner on forums about this.

 

[SaMx]

The federal auto match shoots better in my model 60, but everything except the remington bulk ammo shoots well.