Ammo brands you avoid

[Dave Lively]

When I go to the range I often find .22 duds set of to the side. About 99% of them fired just fine in my revolvers or bolt action rifles.
Pistols often are the problem, worn firing pin, weak springs, dirty, ect.

That is often the result of the priming compound not being spread completely around the rim. Most of the time if you rotate a dud 22 it will fire in the same gun. Light primer strikes happen but I don't think that is the cause of all the .22 duds you are finding.

 

[Marcruger]

When I got this Stoeger .22 Luger I had been forewarned by the all-knowing internet that it would be very picky about ammo and that only plated HV stuff would make it function. I bought a variety of .22 ammo and the only ammo that worked 100% were some grungy Thunderbolts at the bottom of my range bag that had spilled from the bulk pack.

That's all I shoot in it now, and it still hasn't bobbled.

That was like a nice .22 rifle I had. I would ONLY shoot Thunderbolt into a small group. Nothing else. The bad part was that about one round in ten on firing would go "bang" instead of "BANG", and that round would be 1" or more out of the group. You couldn't trust the ammo/rifle combo. If you were aiming at a squirrel, would the round in the chamber go "BANG", or just "bang" and be a total miss?

 

[Eddie Southgate]

I load my own for everything but .380 , most 9mm , and .32 acp for practice. In those cartridges I will buy Hornady CD or Super Vel for .380 . In 9mm I will buy Speer 124 grain LE . In .32 acp I mostly buy the foreign stuff as it is faster and usually 100% dependable in my gun. I have bought some boxes of .30-30 for the cases in Remington and had issues with dead primers so I'll buy no more of that . In .22 Lr I only buy the CCI Velocitor since I have had issues with just about all of the others I have tried in recent years including bricks of CCI Standard that were basically trash .