Jmc24
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Picking up my M&P .22 and wanted to know if it has a preference for ammo. Likes? Dislikes?
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M&P .22 Ammo
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I have read on here from the ones that have the M&P 22 that have run all brands of ammo through it with all kinds of results. All I have ever ran through mine are the CCI Tactical and the CCI Mini mags and I have never had one single problem with it having FTF or FTE and not one single misfire. It is one sweet little pistol. Good luck and have fun.
Pagan
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Took mine to the range for the 1st time today. Shot 100 rounds each of:
CCI Mini Mags: = No problems
Federal American Eagle:= No Problems
Federal 50 round bulk pack: = 1 Failure to eject. (Could have been limp wristed)
As a comparison, my Sig Mosquito only works well with the CCI ammo.
CCI Mini Mags: = No problems
Federal American Eagle:= No Problems
Federal 50 round bulk pack: = 1 Failure to eject. (Could have been limp wristed)
As a comparison, my Sig Mosquito only works well with the CCI ammo.
I haven't had a problem with any brands of 22's yet. I have ran cci mini mags, federal american eagle, federal bulk, WWB, cci standard, Remington golden bullets, cyclone and thunder bolts. Its been a very dependable gun.
Tizom
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I ran the CCI Blazer and it was AWFUL! 40 Grain... I had SEVERAL FTF and SEVERAL FTE's... Had to manually cycle the slide and run it... I suppose that was good practice for when that does happen...
Tizom
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So I suppose the best question is what is the BEST ammo to run in the M&P .22? CCI Stingers have been my favorite so far. They run clean and have great accuracy on paper.
Me too. I like the Blazers. Also good are Remington Golden Bullets. My worst experience was with Federal Champion Value Pack. Lots of FTEs, but that was when the gun was newer, so could have been a break-in issue. Going to try Federal Automatch soon, just got a good deal on a few bulk boxes.
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This is an almost impossible question to answer, IMHO. No two M&P 22's seem to work the same, and there's enough inconsistency in .22LR ammo manufacturing to produce varying results in different batches of the same ammo. I've had, for example, some boxes of Wal-Mart bulk pack Federal run great, while other produced considerable failures. It really can be a **** shoot in some cases.
I've had the best luck with:
CCI Mini-mag
CCI Tactical AR .22LR
Winchester M-22
The M-22 and Tactical AR ammo run very clean as well.
I've had the best luck with:
CCI Mini-mag
CCI Tactical AR .22LR
Winchester M-22
The M-22 and Tactical AR ammo run very clean as well.
agksimon
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I posted the article below in another thread, but here we go:
I did a 25 yard sandbag test with various types of ammo, five groups of five shots each:
CCI Mini-Mag 36gr HP held the tightest groups at 2" or less, no malfunctions.
CCI Mini-Mag 40gr solid point, 3" groups, no malfunctions.
Remington Golden 36gr HP, 4" groups, no malfunctions (this is the newest batch, with good primers)
Federal Champion 36gr HP, 6" groups, with about a quarter of them causing the slide to short cycle. The slide came back enough to eject the fired casing, but not enough to strip a new round from the magazine and chamber it. My daughter's Walther P-22 did the same thing, though my Ruger 22/45 didn't.
This tells me that the Federal are inconsistant, with some being weaker than others, hence the wide groups, short cycling slide and the empty casing only kicking out about a foot from the gun, as opposed to the other types kicking out 3-4 feet.
The group sizes averaged about the same in all 3 guns.
On another day, my shooting buddy brought along a chronograph and to no surprise the CCI Mini-Mag averaged about 30 FPS deviation, whereas the Federals averaged over an 80FPS deviation, sometimes over a 100.
I shoot Steel Challenge and a rimfire version of IDPA with my M&P22 and I need the best groups I can get, as a miss is a loss.
I did a 25 yard sandbag test with various types of ammo, five groups of five shots each:
CCI Mini-Mag 36gr HP held the tightest groups at 2" or less, no malfunctions.
CCI Mini-Mag 40gr solid point, 3" groups, no malfunctions.
Remington Golden 36gr HP, 4" groups, no malfunctions (this is the newest batch, with good primers)
Federal Champion 36gr HP, 6" groups, with about a quarter of them causing the slide to short cycle. The slide came back enough to eject the fired casing, but not enough to strip a new round from the magazine and chamber it. My daughter's Walther P-22 did the same thing, though my Ruger 22/45 didn't.
This tells me that the Federal are inconsistant, with some being weaker than others, hence the wide groups, short cycling slide and the empty casing only kicking out about a foot from the gun, as opposed to the other types kicking out 3-4 feet.
The group sizes averaged about the same in all 3 guns.
On another day, my shooting buddy brought along a chronograph and to no surprise the CCI Mini-Mag averaged about 30 FPS deviation, whereas the Federals averaged over an 80FPS deviation, sometimes over a 100.
I shoot Steel Challenge and a rimfire version of IDPA with my M&P22 and I need the best groups I can get, as a miss is a loss.
