22LR Ammunition, How Many Different Types Do you Have?

[onelastshot]

I'm in the process of moving and all of my Hunting and shooting supplies as well as all my other belongings are being packed and readied for the move out west. In the process of packaging all of the various calibers and cartridges I have I noticed something unusual with my 22LR supply. Over the drought of the past three years I've purchased whatever 22LR whenever I've seen it available, regardless of the manufacturer. I now realize that I've acquired 8-10 different varieties of 22LR ammo.

My favorite 22LR rifle is my 10/22, and it seems to prefer the CCI 22 mini mags. Both the Remington Golden bullets and the Winchester Super-X seem to stair step after shooting several rounds. Other types just don't seem to group as well. In short, I've found myself with several thousand rounds of various makes that just don't shoot as well. Now that 22LR ammo is once again becoming readily available, including my CCI Mini Mags I've stopped buying "what's available".

The million dollar question now is, what to do with all the other brands! I think I've decided to just put it in safe keeping at the new residence and let the grandchildren have at it when they visit. I'm going to stick with my CCI Mini Mags and hope we never revisit the problems of the past three years.

 

[Jose_Luis_G]

I'm a prone target shooter and have only two kinds.
One is Eley Tenex for hot days, and the other is R50 for cold weather.
I don't think this is going to help you at all, since our aim is completely different but that's what I use, and you have asked for.

 

[jpx2rk]

I did basically the same as you did when 22 ammo got hard to find/obtain. I've also got some 22 ammo that is ~ 25 yrs old or more. I use the various types & brands when I just feel like going to the range and chasing a tin can/golf ball/water bottle around the place with my Ruger 22 semi pistol.

It's decent practice even tho the various brands may not shoot well, but Ruger semi pistols are usually not all that picky about what it eats. I did have a few FTE and one FTF the other day with the "old" ammo, but did not bother me.

I have never attempted to find a favorite ammo for this gun as it is just a plinker, and I'll feed it whatever I have in the cheap box. I was fairly pleased with my accuracy & shooting as I was able to hit the targets enough to keep me reloading the clips.

 

[Clark]

I had a couple brick, and then the shortages and high prices started 8 years ago. It was like AR15 mags in the 1990s. Suddenly I needed lots.
Now I have 100 pounds of rimfire ammo.

 

[perry42]

15 different brands/types. RWS shoots best in my Anschutz MS.
My Contender shoots very well with several different brands (10" scoped barrel). My son's heavy barreled Ruger shoots almost everything well.

perry42

 

[snert]

CCI segmented for anything I want dead, right now. (Best bullet I ever found for a 22...makes car-hit deer dead real quick...used it in lieu of my service weapon when I worked the road...less drama, better results).
Winchester shorts for plinking with the old open sight rifles. T22 (old stuff and dwindling fast) for the 513T. Remington Subsonic for the 541T. SuperX for hunting groundhogs with both rifles. Various boxes of Eley, federal match, etc etc just to try it...and never justified $10 a box. A little bit of Quiet 22 for nefarious critters that need to go away, but need to do it without fanfare or notice by nebby neighbors. Several 325 count boxes of "federal walmart junkers" for the Ruger Mk2 and bottle shooting at the old dump.

I bought 10 bricks of shorts cause i found them at a smokin price, and the Ruger Single Six loved them.

 

[savagedasher]

I have shorts - long - long rifle - and magnum Larry

 

[dickn52]

Probably 8 with one that shoots great in a Martini, and another for my 52d's

 

[Ohio Varmint Shooter]

I have a bunch of CCI VSHP....it's what I use for hunting squirrels, and it's what shoots best in my Mark II. When I bought the rifle 4 years ago, I bought a whole bunch of different types of ammo to find out what shoots best. Now I have a bunch of that other stuff left over. And I too occasionally bought a few things when available and reasonably prices over the past few years.

You want to get rid of it?

Get a semi auto pistol and go shoot tin cans. It will be gone in no time!

 

[Toolbreaker]

I think I've decided to just put it in safe keeping at the new residence and let the grandchildren have at it when they visit.

That's the best option, IMO. Let the kids have fun with it.

 

[MarkS]

I'm in the process of moving and all of my Hunting and shooting supplies as well as all my other belongings are being packed and readied for the move out west. In the process of packaging all of the various calibers and cartridges I have I noticed something unusual with my 22LR supply. Over the drought of the past three years I've purchased whatever 22LR whenever I've seen it available, regardless of the manufacturer. I now realize that I've acquired 8-10 different varieties of 22LR ammo.

My favorite 22LR rifle is my 10/22, and it seems to prefer the CCI 22 mini mags. Both the Remington Golden bullets and the Winchester Super-X seem to stair step after shooting several rounds. Other types just don't seem to group as well. In short, I've found myself with several thousand rounds of various makes that just don't shoot as well. Now that 22LR ammo is once again becoming readily available, including my CCI Mini Mags I've stopped buying "what's available".

The million dollar question now is, what to do with all the other brands! I think I've decided to just put it in safe keeping at the new residence and let the grandchildren have at it when they visit. I'm going to stick with my CCI Mini Mags and hope we never revisit the problems of the past three years.

I am like you I purchased anything I could get, I had 8-10 different ammo. My 2 10-22 and my SW 22 Victory likes CCI MM and Standard, and Fed Auto Match Norma Tac22, Wolf MT. I sold all the ammo that did not shoot as well as the others, and bought CCI Standard.

Mark

 

[Berger.Fan222]

We usually let the kids shoot up the odds and ends to keep ammo inventory simplified. They like it and benefit from the practice.

We've also done a better job keeping 22LR acquisitions limited to stuff already proven to work well in the rifles. Stuff we try that doesn't work well gets shifted to pistol, and we let one of the new shooters grow in their pistol skills rather than hoarding it.

I've found it harder to reduce inventory of centerfire stuff acquired for one purpose and then not used when plans or interests shift.

In all cases when we have something it just doesn't seem like we'll get around to using, it's easy enough to bring to the range and give to someone who will.

 

[XTR]

If you don't count the 6 or so partial boxes of various ammo I picked up testing what shot better in one of my rifles, I have two. SKJagd rifle match and Wolf target match, which are supposed to be the same thing in different boxes. About 1000 of each.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

It all shoots.. I have my fav , a couple thousand CCI 40 MiniMags HP. A buncha yellow Remington, 5k Fed 40 grain, 500 of some kinda match ammo, and what ever got dropped in my truck over the years..