Good ammo for .22LR semi auto pistols?

Question

I've got a .22LR Luger (made by Stoeger) that is quite picky on what ammo i put through it. Thanks to a great answerer's help, i went and cleaned alot of lacquer off the action's slides that had built up, and i think that helped somewhat, but it still has different issues with different rounds.

The CCI Blazer ammo often fails to extract empty shells. It uses a 40 grain bullet. It will just jam halfway open, with the shell not really extracted well. I assume it is an incompatable rim shape (just that manufacturer's sizing and tolerances).

The Remington Golden Bullet 36 grain round usually misfires once during each 10-round clip (click.... huh? fails to dent the rim enough compared to my other rimfires, so i need an ammo with soft rims i guess) as well as occasionally misfeeding, pushing the nose too high so it hits above the breech hole, jamming it there.

Any advice other than testing every type off the shelf myself? Any well-reputed rounds that stand out?

Answer 1

Winchester Super X is a fairly priced (not cheap) reliable and accurate 22lr ammo. You will need to use High Velocity rounds. Do not use pistol or match ammo. The action on these pistols is very stiff. If you notice, the action is so slow that when the pistol fires, you can actually observe the Lug/Cocking link come up and go down. (Try that with a 9mm Luger, you see nothing!) Even though your pistol is old in years, it may well be practically new in use. It should perform better with use. If after 4 or 5 hundred rounds,of good ammo, you are still experiencing jams and ejection problem. The brass may be sticking in the chamber. Get some chamber polish and follow the directions to polish he chamber.



PS. I'm glad the link to the disassembly procedure helped.

Answer 2

I have more .22s than fingers and one thing always rings true and that is you need to test each ammo to find the ones that work well in persnickety guns.



Having answered the previous question (and hopefully well) there is one thing that you can do that was not discussed.



Most old-timer gunsmiths (and certainly any well-equiped machine shop) can take the firing pin from your gun and fabricate a duplicate that is a couple hundreds of an inch longer. I had a part fabricated for an old obsolete revolver and it did not cost as much as I expected. While you are at it, get an extractor made and try some filing and fitting and get those shells yanked out proper.

Answer 3

I have had the best luck with CCI Mini-Mag ammo. It's got good velocity to reliably cycle and it's accurate as well. Very low misfire rate, and it doesn't jam in any of my 5 .22LR rifles and pistols.



The Remington Golden bullet ammo is junk - far too many duds and inconsistent velocity for me. I completely stay away from pretty much all Remington .22LR ammo, except for maybe the Remington branded Eley ammo, which is good but expensive.

Answer 4

I suspect you may have some pitting in the chamber due to it's not being cleaned properly in the past. I use a 22 round made by PMC. I can get a 500 round brick for about 15 dollars. It is uncommonly accurate in my Marlin bolt action, my marlin lever action, my anshutz bolt, mr ruger 10/22 and in all my pistols with the exception of my sig sauer, which it only does average in. It outperforms even most of my ely match, other other match grades that I have used. It PMC makes several types of 22, but "zappers" come in both solid and hollow point, and are a very high velocity and reliable round. I use them for hunting, and when shot off sandbags with most of my bolt actions, which have free floating barrels and actions bedded, they produce cloverleaf 10 shot groups, well within 1/2 inch at 50 yards. What can be better than that? Out of my favorite pistol, a bull barrelled Ruger, it will group one inch reliably off hand shooting at 25 yards, with it's accuracy potential better than my shooting skills and old eyes

Answer 5

Sound like you have a worn firing pin, and possibly extractor problems, not only ammo problems.If the firing pin is barely denting the rim of fired rounds, then the firing pin is too short, and need replacing. If you have problems with faulty extractions, then the extractor may need to be worked on, or replaced.. I shoot cheapo ammo all the time in my Ruger 22/45 Mark II pistol, and my problems were in the one percentile.

Answer 6

22lr Semi Auto Pistol

Answer 7

CCI mini mags or Federal High Velocity Hollow Points. Make sure you get .22 long rifle ammo with copper jackets around the bullets because autopistols cycle reliably with this type of ammunition, and are more accurate than lead .22 bullets because autopistols have shallower rifling in their barrels.

Answer 8

You might want to have your pistol checked by a gunsmith. It sounds like the problems you are having may not be due to the ammo.

Answer 9

From my experience I never ever had any problem shooting any type of ammo from mine.* Your problem is not in the ammo, but in the pistol.*

Answer 10

I like Winchesters...Id find one that your gun likes and only buy that brand and type...Ive seen finicky guns before..its not unusual

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