22LR CCI Mini Mag 1640 FPS ammo question.

[NDAR15MAN]

I have a chance to buy a huge quainty of 22LR CCI mini mag 1640 FPS ammo. Enough to carry me through to the nursing home.
We all know this ammo is not that accurate in Ruger 10/22 or for that matter any rifles. I do like shooting this for long range shooting out of my stock Ruger 10/22.
Question. Is there a gun smith that could make my own stock 10/22 shoot this ammo really good groups ?
What kind of 50 yard groups do you think I could get out of custom rebuilt on my own 10/22 or your recommendation for a different gun and make over that will shoot this fast 32 gr ammo. Thanks Marty

 

[CZ_Lilja]

Problem with Minimags is they aren't subsonic, so...bullet tumble during transition and all that stuff.

I don't have a 10/22 but I can get maybe 3/4" groups at 50 with a bunch of CZ bolts with the Minimags. Subsonic will do about half that.

It's still good ammo, though. If the price is right, maybe buy it and stick to practicing 25 yd standing with it? Or trade it for SV?

 

[Nowhere Man]

Simple answer is no. It's not the gun. It's the ammo.

 

[Rsadams]

Lol , you might should consider getting it just in case the election goes bad... Just a few years ago .22 ammo was impossible to find and some was selling at $250 a brick....

 

[spclark]

Lol , you might should consider getting it just in case the election goes bad...

It wasn’t who won or lost that caused that shortage, it was the sheer volume of folks picking out a gun for their first time. 22’s are inexpensive, easy to learn to shoot and amazingly effective at close-range deterrence. So - despite making literally millions of rounds a day - manufacturers had issues keeping up with demand for quite some time.

Now that Walmart’s sworn off short-barreled ammo sales that shouldn’t be something that’ll happen again though

CCI’s 40 grain Minimag’s work great in a 22lr upper I use for league shooting with my Kimber Custom Classic 45ACP’s frame underneath. But at 50’ or under the transition to subsonic don’t enter into the fun factor a bit.

 

[Rsadams]

It wasn’t who won or lost that caused that shortage, it was the sheer volume of folks picking out a gun for their first time. 22’s are inexpensive, easy to learn to shoot and amazingly effective at close-range deterrence. So - despite making literally millions of rounds a day - manufacturers had issues keeping up with demand for quite some time.

Now that Walmart’s sworn off short-barreled ammo sales that shouldn’t be something that’ll happen again though

CCI’s 40 grain Minimag’s work great in a 22lr upper I use for league shooting with my Kimber Custom Classic 45ACP’s frame underneath. But at 50’ or under the transition to subsonic don’t enter into the fun factor a bit.

I love the CCI standered velocity myself and it would be my go to Target I guess.... Here it was crazy during the great shortage guys were lining up at 4:00 am and buying crap .22 at Walmart , all they could get , groups of people in busness together selling it online for $20.00 a box... Bricks of crap ammo were a car payment...lol

I keep alot on hand so it didn't effect me much but I was getting calls by friends up north asking to buy bricks for as high as $250 a brick... I sold a few to friends for $20.00 a brick and a few boxes to farmers for $5.00 a box for pest control... I would have given it to them but they demanded to give me the $5... The only thing you could find here was 30:06 and .270 for some reason... Everything else was history.... It will happen again here shortly with the way things are headed... .223 , 9mm , p- mags , bolts for ARs and .22 will be worth more than their weight in gold.... I remember seeing worn out junk and i meen junk military surplus AR mags at $100 a mag from a popular website and of course p-mags were unattainable at any price...

 

[Bill K]

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Question. Is there a gun smith that could make my own stock 10/22 shoot this ammo really good groups ?
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You can buy a barrel/lug aftermarket item and a better trigger (drop in unit) from various dealers, i.e. Brownells, Little Crow and others and put them in yourself, these will help a lot in making your 10-22 shot much better. And they are not that expensive to buy and DYI.

 

[Ggmac]

I have a chance to buy a huge quainty of 22LR CCI mini mag 1640 FPS ammo. Enough to carry me through to the nursing home.
We all know this ammo is not that accurate in Ruger 10/22 or for that matter any rifles. I do like shooting this for long range shooting out of my stock Ruger 10/22.
Question. Is there a gun smith that could make my own stock 10/22 shoot this ammo really good groups ?
What kind of 50 yard groups do you think I could get out of custom rebuilt on my own 10/22 or your recommendation for a different gun and make over that will shoot this fast 32 gr ammo. Thanks Marty

Well if you had a barrel about 40-50" long , long enough to bleed off that velocity, you may be able to get it sub sonic for it to be accurate. Joking aside , speed is what's hurting that answer . Having a good chamber matched to the sporting case size ( varies ) and a good barrel could get it to shoot accurate, but only to a short range , 35-40 yds , depending on when it enters the transonic range . Short answer , no . But that depends on what you call accurate . There's a reason all target ammo is std velocity.

 

[Alvin]

22LR CCI mini mag, is the 1640 FPS correct, thought they only come in 1235 or 1260 FPS

 

[thekriebles]

22LR CCI mini mag, is the 1640 FPS correct, thought they only come in 1235 or 1260 FPS

I believe he meant CCI Stinger.