M&P 22 preferred ammo

Plinker99 · Feb 13, 2013

I'm wondering what kinds of .22lr ammo you are using successfully in your M&P 22. Mine LOVES Remington Golden Bullet. (Remington® .22LR Golden® Bullet | Bass Pro Shops)

Hates Winchester in 555 round box.

What gives you good results? A link would be good.

M&P Freak · Feb 13, 2013

Most anything with a velocity rated above 1200FPS. I try to buy CCI Blazer value packs for the best bang for the buck.

CallaoJoe · Feb 13, 2013

I have been shooting Federal 36gr copper plated HP. 1260 stated MV. Not one single malfunction in 200 or so rounds.

PennGrizz · Feb 13, 2013

I am having trouble even finding any .22LR. I have called every shop in town (VA) have everyone says they are sold out. I did find find a bulk box of CCI though once 1075 fps 40grain. They seemed to cycle jut fine I had a couple feed failures though in ~400 rounds shot.
I like this thread where people can post there opinions on the ammo they used

brinack · Feb 13, 2013

CallaoJoe said:
I have been shooting Federal 36gr copper plated HP. 1260 stated MV. Not one single malfunction in 200 or so rounds.

Same here Federal Champion 36gr, no problems.

shield · Feb 13, 2013

Mine also works well with Remington Golden. Also like the CCI Blazer. Had a fair amount of failures with the Federal Champion copper plated bulk, but it's been awhile, so may work better now that the gun is broken in. I'm getting some bulk Federal Target, so will see how that does.

holtzfan · Feb 13, 2013

I took my wife's gun out today for it's first outing. I used a wide variety of bullets. The gun seemed to dislike the exposed lead bullets and like the copper plated. It was only the first 200 rounds though, the gun may warm up to the exposed lead after being broken in.

Exiled Cheesehead · Feb 13, 2013

I have mentioned before in other threads, but the Federal bulk packs of either 525 or 550 work well in mine. I do believe they would be the same 36 grain bullets that others in this thread have mentioned. Thousands of rounds ran through it and only a few FTF and FTEs.

agksimon · Feb 13, 2013

Mini-Mag and Remington Golden work fine, but the Federal Champion is weaker and sometimes short cycles my slide. Ejects but sometimes won't go back far enough to pick up a new round and closes on an empty chamber.

Plinker99 · Feb 17, 2013

agksimon said:
Mini-Mag and Remington Golden work fine, but the Federal Champion is weaker and sometimes short cycles my slide. Ejects but sometimes won't go back far enough to pick up a new round and closes on an empty chamber.

Are these the mini mags you're talking about?
CCI Mini-Mag High Velocity Ammo 22 Long Rifle 36 Grain Plated Lead

argyle1514 · Feb 17, 2013

When I first bought the M&P22, I started with a box of the Winchester 525 packs of 36 gr ammo. These seemed to work OK with very few problems. Out of the 525, I had very few FTE or FTF problems. That didn't seem too bad, so I bought a 2,100-round bulk pack of the same. This batch is not going too well...I'm still on the first 525 box of this batch, and I'm getting anywhere from 1-3 FTE/FTF's in a 12-round magazine. I have 5 of these magazines, and it seems rare that I go through at least one magazine without any FTE or FTF problems. I'd sell what I have of the Winchester remaining, but there just isn't any .22LR anywhere to replace it with. I did pick up two packs of CCI 40 gr mini-mags at a gun show yesterday, but that was the limit...by the time I went back to try and get two more, they were all gone.

VMaxSplat · Feb 17, 2013

My M&P 22 shoots anything with a round nose bullet, but CCI ammo is the cream of the crop.

Maddmax · Feb 17, 2013

CCI are by far the best.But after being broken in,mine eats everything and the Federal 550 work great. I do stay away from exposed lead.

Plinker99 · Mar 2, 2013

Tried the CCI mini-mags yesterday. Perfect every time.

FL45acp · Mar 2, 2013

I have used Federal 550 bulk, Remington Thunderbolt, and Winchester SuperX. They all fed and ejected fine. I did have a couple of the Winchester's fail to fire, but that was crappy ammo not the gun.

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agksimon · Mar 2, 2013

Plinker99 said:
Are these the mini mags you're talking about?
CCI Mini-Mag High Velocity Ammo 22 Long Rifle 36 Grain Plated Lead

Yes it is.

PennGrizz · Mar 5, 2013

I have only been able to find 2 types of ammo. Mine does NOT like the federal premiums 40grain 1085 FPS. At least 4-6 FTE/FTF in a 12round mag. But on the other hand the Standard Velocity 1075 FPS CCI's 40grain is much much better. Maybe 1 FTE/FTF in a 12round mag. I'm interested in hearing what everyone else is using. Range I use has high velocity ammo for sale I will most likely try a box of that next time I go.

Carrot · Mar 5, 2013

I shot about 250 rounds of Rem Golden this past weekend with not a single issue. I was able to buy 1050 rounds the other day for about $35.

jkrew619 · Mar 6, 2013

my mp 22 likes cci velocitor hp,federal bulk and cci blazer. I put 500 rounds when I got it from a day wait. all in all 5 ftf from cci blazer. the rest is all good.

Bolton · Mar 6, 2013

Have not yet had any FTF or FTE using CCI std 1070 FPS 40 grain LRN or Blazers.

Local range just got in Federals when we were leaving. I asked the guy how much they were charging and he smugly said "$9.00 bx or $90 for a 500 round brick". By the time you add state and local taxes that would be almost $100/Brick.

If he would have been reasonable we would have bought a couple bricks and probably been back to the range already. He lost our rental fees and trust me - they were not that busy when we were there. I find it hard to believe that anyone with any common sense would pay that kind of money for Federal rim fire .22. But like PT Barnum said there a sucker born every second.

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