Rimfire fun😃

[Gork10]

Decided to take a couple of rimfire pistols out for my regular Tuesday range day. Took a FN 502 and a Browning Buckmark. Both have green dot sights. The FN ran like a top with 4 of the 5 types of ammo I brought. It didn't like CCI quite at all. The Browning on the other hand didn't like anything today. Don't think I got threw a single mag without a malfunction, unusual with this gun. Both we cleaned last night using the same lube. The FN was also more accurate today. Strange but that's the way it goes sometimes. Here's the reguired pic.lol

 

[NorthBorder]

Nice looking Browning you have. Maybe it just wasn't feeling up to it today.

 

[bigpower491]

Had the rimfires out the other day myself, and today it's going to be low 50s. Should melt the rest of the snow on the pistol range down to grass. I'll be out there later with the N frames after work if all goes well

 

[doubleh]

for your 22 shooting day. 22LR is a fun caliber to shoot. I was quite surprised at the trouble with CCI ammo. I have a number of 22's, both rifle and hand guns, and over the years quite a few that left for some reason or the other but none ever turned their nose up at CCI ammo. In fact it and Aguila are the only 22LR I have bought for several years because of their dependability with accuracy and target impact being very close also. I prefer the CCI because of Aguila's strange odor while CCI has none.

 

[Gork10]

for your 22 shooting day. 22LR is a fun caliber to shoot. I was quite surprised at the trouble with CCI ammo. I have a number of 22's, both rifle and hand guns, and over the years quite a few that left for some reason or the other but none ever turned their nose up at CCI ammo. In fact it and Aguila are the only 22LR I have bought for several years because of their dependability with accuracy and target impact being very close also. I prefer the CCI because of Aguila's strange odor while CCI has none.

The CCI quite is a low power round to keep noise down. Just not enough power to cycle the slide. Minimags run just fine in just about all my 22s.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Rimfires have made a happy place in my heart. They are always a good choice, even though they can give you a little trouble occasionally.

 

[Riomouse911]

Rimfires are great. So much so I’ll be picking up another pistol, and getting a .22 conversion kit, later this week.

Stay safe.

 

[Walkalong]

My wife and I shot my Ruger MkIII .22/45 and her FN-502 the other day. The FN likes oil, plenty of it, to cycle smoothly. It was also having some light strikes/failure to fires, and while striker fired guns generally don't like oil on the striker, the FN is hammer fired, so I dropped a tiny bit of oil into the opening in the breech and the FTFs went away. My wife likes the FN, and finds the trigger easier to manage since it's lighter. Both are nice guns, very happy with them.

 

[Gork10]

My wife and I shot my Ruger MkIII .22/45 and her FN-502 the other day. The FN likes oil, plenty of it, to cycle smoothly. It was also having some light strikes/failure to fires, and while striker fired guns generally don't like oil on the striker, the FN is hammer fired, so I dropped a tiny bit of oil into the opening in the breech and the FTFs went away. My wife likes the FN, and finds the trigger easier to manage since it's lighter. Both are nice guns, very happy with them.
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That's interesting about your wife's 502. Mine likes just a very light coat of a lightweight oil. Runs great with most ammo. Most issues I have with it are ammo related.

 

[Gork10]

Rimfires are great. So much so I’ll be picking up another pistol, and getting a .22 conversion kit, later this week.

Stay safe.

Couldn't agree more. Rimfire are great. CC Looking at getting ether a HK MP5-22 pistol or a Tippmann M4 22 pistol. Haven't decided yet. My local shop has both. Plus a used S&W mp15 22 in pistol form. Decisions decision.

 

[Pat Riot]

I think the OP means CCI “Quiet” .22LR and Otto Correct is stepping up to screw it up.

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A Rimfire day sounds like a good idea, now that the weather appears to be getting a little better in my area.

 

[Noclutch]

Tangential rimfire story. Where I live, hickory trees bearing tons of nuts are common. I'll gather the nuts up by the hundreds, spray paint them white, store them up and occasionally line up a bunch all over my range for plinking pleasure. A little bit of a challenge depending on 22 of choice. I love watching them explode!


However, sometime recently, the squirrels found my stash, which was in an old metal pot with a lid, opened it and proceeded to eat up my targets! Random bits of white freshly shelled hickory nuts were all over the area, and it wasn't my doing!
If I see those MF squirrels in action it might be a bad day for them! JK, maybe...
Ok, carry on with serious stuff

 

[Pat Riot]

If I see those MF squirrels in action it might be a bad day for them! JK, maybe...

Yeah, Boy! Those squirrels will drive you nuts.

 

[Walkalong]

That's interesting about your wife's 502. Mine likes just a very light coat of a lightweight oil. Runs great with most ammo. Most issues I have with it are ammo related.

Lightweight oil for sure, but hers likes plenty. Maybe because it's new and not broken in well yet. And maybe my "plenty" isn't as much as it sounds like.

 

[Gork10]

Lightweight oil for sure, but hers likes plenty. Maybe because it's new and not broken in well yet. And maybe my "plenty" isn't as much as it sounds like.

Could be that it's not fully broken in. Mine has a little over 8,000 rounds threw it. For oiling I pop of the slide and barrel and give it a squirt of genetic lightweight oil then wipe of 90 percent. Runs great like that.

 

[gunlaw]

I noticed armsocore ammo. My Ruger Mkii does not like it

 

[cfullgraf]

Yes, a day with 22RF plinking can be lots of fun. But...

In the 1960's, off season from pheasant hunting, my dad and I would go out to the hunting club he belonged to and enjoy plinking with the 22RF rifles around the club house. Any ammunition that Dad purchased worked fine in our Marlin 39A and Winchester 69 bolt actin rifle.

Around 1980, I began purchasing my own firearms, some were 22RF. A mix of revolvers and semi-auto handguns. Not too many rifles, a Ruger 10/22 for my daughter and a CMP surplus Kimber 82.

What I have found to be frustrating is that more and more the ammunition is becoming more firearm specific.

Maybe just a single data point, but I'd rather shoot my 38 Special reloads than screw with the crap coming out of 22LR factories these days.

 

[doubleh]

Rimfires are always fun to me. I seldom go to our range without one or more. It may be rifles, handguns, or a combination. Sometimes it's a dedicated rimfire trip. Other times it is to relax some after the boom and recoil of centerfire guns.

 

[chickasaw_hunter]

I recently got some CCI Quiets to try with my Sparrow on a Walther P22. I wasn't hopeful they would cycle the pistol. I also had a bolt rifle. The Quiets certainly were. I might be wrong here, so correct me it I am, but the Quiets seem to be just .22 Shorts loaded into a .22 LR case. For the data I saw listed on the CCI site they are the same velocity as the Shorts. So I wouldn't expect them to cycle a semi-auto of any stripe. I'm sure there'll be an exception out there in the big wide world.
With my P22 mostly they would just short cycle and not load a new round. I could just re-rack the slide for every round. But,frequently enough to be a PITA it would just barely eject the round and then the slide would close on the ejected case and you'd have to clear it before the next shot. The Quiets have a place for me and the gophers around my place don't like them.

 

[tubeshooter]

I love shooting .22LR, probably my favorite overall even though I can understand why it doesn't ring everyone's bell. Some find it boring...

The Browning on the other hand didn't like anything today. Don't think I got threw a single mag without a malfunction, unusual with this gun. Both we cleaned last night using the same lube.

If the gun was clean and the unreliability is unusual, check the hex screws. It's a known issue with Buckmarks for them to sometimes loosen and maybe make the gun a little finicky over time.

Grab a new mag or two and see if it does any better.

I also recommend investing in a couple or three recoil buffers if you haven't already.

 

[nofendertom]

IIRC - The CCI Quiet Shorts have a lower velocity than the CCI Shorts.
I don't know the actual difference, because I don't have each handy.

 

[chickasaw_hunter]

OK, I went and looked it up. Quiets are 710 fps and Shorts are 710 fps, I thought I remembered that from a few months ago when I ordered the Quiets. So, shorts are short and Quiets are shorts in a LR case so it can function thru actions designed for LR.

 

[Gork10]

the gun was clean and the unreliability is unusual, check the hex screws. It's a known issue with Buckmarks for them to sometimes loosen and maybe make the gun a little finicky over time.

Both guns were cleaned and lubed the night before. I've owned several Buckmark over the years. Still own 2, this one and an older one. The older one eats just about anything. This one's been ammo sensitive since I got it. Minimags and automatch both run fine. Anything else is hit or miss. The malfunctions were across 7 different magazines. Newer recoil spring as well.

 

[tubeshooter]

Both guns were cleaned and lubed the night before. I've owned several Buckmark over the years. Still own 2, this one and an older one. The older one eats just about anything. This one's been ammo sensitive since I got it. Minimags and automatch both run fine. Anything else is hit or miss. The malfunctions were across 7 different magazines. Newer recoil spring as well.

OK - I tried...

 

[tightgroup tiger]

My Buckmark is new but starting to break in. It's not miss-feeding at all now. My S22-A my buddy sent me like the Federal Champions, they have a tapered bullet compared to the standard roundnose so they feed much better than standard roundnose bullets do.

The difference in accuracy to me is negligible.

Auto Match ammo. Federal Champions Both are bulk loads. Shot to different days with the same gun. Champions are cheaper than Auto Match.

Pretty much the same accuracy to me but the Federal feed better in all my semi auto 22s.


Federal champion on the left
You can see how the bullet is tapered compared to a standard roundnose bullet like the Auto Match.