Bought a Brick of This For $20.00 Today.....

[AJ]

Actually bought two bricks of this for $20.00 today at a gun show. I was going to buy just one brick for my collection, but decided to buy both. Gave one to a friend of mine. May open it carefully and take out the ammo for the grandkids to shoot up on their next range outing. Much better pricing that anything else at the show.

 

[BC38]

Never tried their brass cased, but I did try their steel cased 22LR.
Let's just say I was unimpressed.

 

[AJ]

Will let the kids shoot it in SAA revolvers. That slows them down (as compared to an auto) and they are happy they get to shoot anything. Was not figuring on match accuracy or cycling an auto with it.

 

[Hang-Fire Hank]

MARGINAL

I had a lot of miss-fires in bolt action rifles. You should be OK with SAA revolvers. Let us know.
Hank M.

 

[rockquarry]

As I recall some of that Russian stuff was okay, but I made the mistake of buying a case of 5,000 for $65.00, I believe, about thirty years ago from a SHOTGUN NEWS ad. The price should have been a tip off. I gave much of it away, but it was hard to give it away to the same person twice.

 

[AJ]

Will keep every one posted when we do shoot it. Better to let the kids shoot this stuff up than almost any other .22 LR ammo. I saw 325 round boxes of Federal Automatch for $45 a box and prices just went up from there.

 

[tndrfttom]

I ordered a case many years ago. It was accurate in my M41 but wouldn't cycle some semi-autos. The cartridges were rather waxy with a 'sweet' smell when fired. I was happy with its performance.

 

[Green Frog]

I don't think there was any real consistency to it... it was just leftover ammo from various runs. IIRC, one early batch was actually Olympic ammo with the dimple, but apparently it just "missed the cut" and didn't get sent to their top shooters. By the time I got a brick of it, it was about on a par with then available cheap US made ammo. Keep in mind this was about 30 years or more ago!

Froggie

 

[BC38]

The reason I was so unimpressed with the steel cased is that there were an unusually high number of duds. Multiple strikes in the same or other positions on the rim wouldn't even make a lot of them go bang. They had enough oomph to cycle semi-autos, most of the time, but they didn't exctract worth a darn.
The brass cased may be a whole different ball o' wax. Or it may not.