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What ammo works best?

5.4K views 50 replies 38 participants last post by  C.C.  
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#2 ·
that is a loaded. question. some are better for hunting(pentration)

some are better for punching paper

some are better for be quiet. and it really also depends on rifle. one of my rifles likes the cheap stuff over the expensive stuff and the other does not like high velocity at all.

really have to shoot different stuff to see what the rifle likes
 
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Well, I know a guy who knows a guy who had a friend that came across this special ammo made in Lichtenstein by a guy who had purchased old loading machines from RWS and Lapua who was also a chemical genius and had developed a proprietary primer that allowed for a single loaded round of ammo to fire at four different velocities depending upon what quadrant of the rim the firing pin struck. It would fire at low subsonic (800-900fps), standard velocity, high velocity, and hyper velocity. The rim of each round was color coded in quarters (red, yellow, green, blue) so that you could line up the cartridges in your magazine so that they would all fire how you wanted them to. The bullets were a round nose, but, you could separate the tip off with your thumbnail or a pocket knife and expose a hollow point cavity. Because this guy would cast the bullets in a weightless environment using centrifugal force (he owns a large passenger jet that he modified and flies the trajectory that the "vomit comet" does in order to get to at least a micro gravity state) each bullet is perfectly balance and will shoot to .25 MOA at 100 meters. Not only that but the lead he uses is an alloy that responds differently to different mediums it may strike based on the Mos scale of hardness. I have heard that this ammo can defeat level III body armor at subsonic velocities and will not ruin meat on a squirrel even with a center mass body shot. Supposedly the chronographed velocities (of course, based on firing pin strikes to same colors on the rims) have such a minuscule variance that it is statistically insignificant.

This is the ammo that works best. Or so I have heard...
 
#22 ·
The very best 22lr ammo w/o question is the one that works best in a particular firearm. Two identical rifles. One may shoot best with brand X and the other with brand Y and not the other way around. You have to play around with different brands and find the one that works best in one firearm. Then make a note of it. You may wind up stocking 8, 10 or more makes and quality levels within a brand to find the optimum for a given firearm. I have a couple of rifles that hate Eley Tenex, a 20 dollar a box ammo, You never know what is best until you try.
 
#28 ·
My new Henry. Purposely took one of my favorite to the range on the first day. Remington Golden worked flawlessly for 150 rds. I have used seen many reviews on this ammo and in some cases better than CCI mini mags. Yes they had some problems a few years ago, but fixed these. Seems they had some bad batches. However. it cycles pistols, is only slightly less accurate than CCImini mags and of course more available and less cost. I love Remington Golden.
 
#34 ·
Now let's get the right historical placement of best ammo,I happen to live in a state that boasts the most(at one point) firearm manufacturing plants in the (young) nation.As far as ammo goes
not so much......But that being said,I have tried all brands of ammo in several types of rifles,and after much testing I can say it's pretty much a crap shoot as to the "Best" ammo I have tried to match ammo to rifle manufacturer that didn't work out to good, and brand to action and the results to were pretty much the same,so Grab a Box of ammo and have a Good Time......or Not!!
You will still have to clean the Firearm before the next outing......Good Luck!