Rimfire reliabillity

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I know rimfire cartridges are notorious for misfires but I'm looking for the most reliable .22LR round.
Im looking at these two, both 40gr hypervelocity:

CCI Velocitors.
CCI has allot of followers, advertises "Sure-Fire" priming

Aguila Interceptors.
advertises "Eley Prime" not really sure what that means :confused:
 
22LR bulk pack ammo is not known for reliability. (but it's not the only rimfire)
Good quality 22LR or 22WMR is as reliable as any centerfire I have tried...as long as the gun shooting them is reliable, that is.

pretty much anything loaded by CCI is good stuff.
 
Bulk pack ammo will always be of lower quality than any manufactures regular line, why would you think MiniMags would not have higher QC.

Their Green Tag line is even a higher grade of ammo. It's like a Fiat 500 and a Ferrari F430...they are both owned and produced under the direction by Fiat, but the workmanship is a bit different
 
Both rounds are high quality and from good manufactures. I personally give the edge to CCI. I have fired thousands of rounds of stinger, mini-mag, velocitors. I could honestly probably count number of misfires on one hand. Aquilla nothing against them I just don't have as much first hand experience with their products. The super colbire and kinda fun but that the only rounds of theirs I buy.
 
Perhaps I mis-understood, I thought you were saying that you had experience with them as cartridges notorious for misfires

The only .22lr cartridges that I am aware of that fall under that description is bulk ammo

BTW: Eley Prime would usually refer to the compound that Eley uses in their cartridges. Eley pretty much sets the bar as far as .22lr quality control goes...Wolf Match might be close, in accuracy, depending on your gun
 
Perhaps I mis-understood, I thought you were saying that you had experience with them as cartridges notorious for misfires

The only .22lr cartridges that I am aware of that fall under that description is bulk ammo
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I was under the impression one of the reasons .22LR weapons were frowned upon for self defence is the lack of reliability from the rimfire primer.

thanks for the info about the eley primers
 
I was under the impression one of the reasons .22LR weapons were frowned upon for self defence is the lack of reliability from the rimfire primer.
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That might be one of the reasons, but I think the main reason is their general lack of "stopping power".

The only rimfire ammo I've found to be unreliable has been Remington Golden Bullet bulk packs. Used to have good performance from them and my Marlin 49DL loves them for accuracy, but for the last several years they've been problematic. I have a 3-5% misfire rate with them now. Maybe half of those will work if turned in the chamber and struck again.

The last bulk pack I bought was Federal. So far, so good with those.
 
I've never noticed much problem with any rimfire ammo to tell you the truth. Sure I'll get a "dud" once in a while but not enought to call it a "problem."

I will say I don't remember EVER having a "dud" with CCI mini mags.
 
I've never had a misfire with Mini-Mags or Stingers.
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That was true for me..until last week. Using CCI mini mags to sight in a Magtech .22lr rifle for squirrel hunting,I had SEVERAL failure to fires. They always fired on a second try. Never had that happen with CCIs. I'm thinking it is light strikes from the rifle and not an ammo problem since the exact same ammo from the same box never failed in my Browning Buckmark.
 
misfires

Had several instances where Remington Target ammo misfired quite a bit (over 20
out of 100). Tried them again in a different 22 pistol and most of them fired.
Too bad as the ones that worked were very accurate in my pistols. Haven't used Remington since.
BacSi
 
I gave up on ALL bulk ammo years ago. Especially Remington bulk .22lr. Failure to fire was so frequent it made the ammo too expensive no matter how little it cost.
 
I'm thinking it is light strikes from the rifle
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I tried the same rifle with Remington Yellow Jacket Hyper Velocity ammo and suffered 2 mis-fires out of every 10 round magazine. They fired flawlessly in my Buckmark. Definitely a rifle not ammo problem.
 
I've had a horrible amount of misfires with Remington Standard velocity .22's lately. I'm shooting CCI now.
I still have a few rounds of Remington Rifle Match (no longer manufactured) that's dead nuts reliable.
 
All .22 cases are not created equal. The brass can vary in hardness and in thickness, not big points unless the firearm has a light spring or some other problem, like an extractor cushioning the firing pin blow. I think most of the misfire problem with bulk ammo is not that the priming is bad but that they skimp on quality control of the sheet brass, which is bought from an outside supplier. The fact that a round misfires in one gun and fires in another would not totally rule out a priming problem, but it would suggest other areas to look at.

Jim
 
I must confess I have shot up 10 boxes of Winchester 333 round bulk pack ammunition with my Ruger Mark III Hunter. I have only had three FTFs because of ammo, and, after a three hundred round break-in period, I have had maybe three more jams/malfunctions because of the gun. CCI Mini-mags are hard to beat, I have to admit.
 
Recently I have shot ten or twelve boxes of Federal 38 grain 550 round bulk pack with no failures. I mean, no failures of any kind, through an auto rifle. I have shot old ammo, formerly good stuff, that had misfires. I have tried to shoot old ammo, presumably contaminated that would not fire at all, box of 50, not one bang. Know that 22 does not age as gracefully as center fire and it is very vulnerable to contamination.
 
I've also had very good luck with Federal 550 and 333 bulk packs. My CZ kadet functions fine with everything I've put in it. But I have a buckmark that has been a bit picky with some ammo. Once I started feeding it the Federal, there have been very few misfires that I can recall. I've also had very good luck with Centurion.

I've also had no issue with CCI. But I'm too cheap to pay for them.
 
I use a huge amount of Federal bulk packs, to the tune of a 550 round box every week. I;ve found that the kind of gun I shoot them in makes big difference in reliability. Using my S&W 617, Ruger single six, or Marlin 39 rifle, I almost never get a failure to fire. Sometimes not one in a whole bulk box. Maybe the added impact of the external hammer drop?

The better half has noticed the same thing with her old S&W model 17 and her newer S&W model 317; almost never a fail to fire. But her Browning Buckmark will fail to go now and then, especially in very cold weather.

Using my Remington speedmaster or my Ruger MK1, I get some occasional duds once in a while.
 
If buying for reliability, I would choose CCI Mini-Mags. Generally CCI manufactures a very reliable product. Choose non-bulk 22 ammo for the most predictable reliablity.
 
CCI rimfire ammunition enjoys a reputation for very few ignition failures. I also shoot a lot of Aquille SV ammo and have not had any ignition failures. In my expereince the following 22 RF ammo has not had any ignition failuires - Aguilla SV, Wolf Match Target, SKJacd alll types, Fiochi several types, CCI SV and Mini Mag. Some of my semi auto pistols have ignition failuires with Remington Golden while others do not. The Federal bulk pack ammo experiences far fewer ignition failures than does the Remington product.
 
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