.22 AMMO

[Gil Boyd]

Is it just me, or the ammo.
You know when you get to a range and find you have a mix mash of ammo, well things opened my eyes today on how tempremental some guns are.
RUGER 10/22
Using it in the above rifle I find Winchester Sub Sonic a very tempremental beast, stoppages every other round, bad feeding, probably due to the length, where CCI seems to go through it OK with fewer stoppages.
I tried a better round altogether.........ELEY FORCE High Velocity no stoppages worked really well through the RUGER and the CHIAPPA.
Anybody else got any knowledge of this little beauty!! No stoppages at all.?

[Aragorn243]

It is a semi automatic that requires a certain level of "power" to operate the bolt. Sub sonics are low velocity rounds and if I recall, not recommended for the 10/22.

[Gil Boyd]

I thought the same, until I saw a gamekeeper using them very successfully on rabbits.
Any idea where that is published, as nothing definitive in the Ruger manual as to their load in them. Seems to be a mixed response.

[Aragorn243]

I don't remember where I saw it. I just bought one about a year ago and I did a lot of research on them first and I just remember them saying that some ammo won't work well with them and that experimentation may be required. Generally will work fine with hotter ammo. I've never actually shot mine yet but I've never purchased subsonics for anything. I did some checking and Remington subsonic appears to be the only type that will cycle reliably for the guys that experimented with it. CCI will not.

[browningautorifle]

I have the same info, subsonic use should be bolt guns and revolvers. Not enough power to cycle reliably... I do have a standard velocity ammo I can use reliably through semis though. Most semis require you find what ammo it likes, or more to the point, doesn't like. Then remember that. I just have that info from word of mouth... Remington...Vector I think is the ammo that works.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I bought a Ruger 10-22 in 1972. It has been a great small rifle. My nieces and nephews have a great time with it, and so do I. Though the wood stock has long been in the box.
The rotary box feeds reliably with 22LR and 22L. It prefers coated vs plain lead. My extended magazines only like 22LR.
I use CCI, American Eagle, and Remington with no issues.

For the small critters in the yard I use CCI CB shorts in a bolt action Anschutz loading one at a time. Quieter than a pellet gun.

[Gil Boyd]

Thanks for those thoughts. Its an interesting calibre, when one would suspect the simplicity of its case and charge make it a dead cert for launching, but that is not the case it would seem.

The subsonic rounds seem to need a lot of power on some manufacturers actions such as Chiappa and certainly Ruger does for sure, to recycle the action in semi autos.
Very frustrating if you have multiple rabbits, and stoppages on the sub calibre round, when you consider the round was really designed specifically for that size of animal. Perhaps a proviso should have been applied to the box "Only for use with bolt action rifles"

[Daan Kemp]

Note. Sub calibre isn't the same as subsonic.

[Gil Boyd]

Ha Ha............well spotted Daan. Too long in the Military spelling slip of course

[Sunray]

.22's are just like that. It's why you have to try a box of as many brands as you can to find the ammo that particular rifle will both shoot well and cycle the action. The price of said ammo means nothing.
I'd be guessing the sub-sonic stuff(don't get the current fascination with it myself.) isn't liked by many semi-auto's though. .22 semi's being blow back and all.