The ammo wasn't very good, if you look close at the rounds most were slightly lopsided and I had 1 in 25 FTL and my groupings at 100 yards was 2 inches with scattershots. anyone else have this problem with this ammo?
Winchester 555 bulk 22LR ammo
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Erich
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I've not shot it in a faux-AR, but it works very well for me (accurate, reliable, consistent velocities) in my 22/45 and 597. I would note that every individual .22 seems to prefer its own ammo for its own reasons - and also that three or four 555-round bulk packs of Winchester's 36-gr HP .22 LR ammo have worked very well for me over the last year.
Here's hoping you find something that your gun likes!
Here's hoping you find something that your gun likes!
thacheese
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it's **** in these rifles. one of the only i refuse to buy or use ever again. i spent hours cleaning lead from the barrel after use. others say they are fine. mine runs flawlessly with federal bulk.
TSQUARED
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If you are shooting at 100 yards you cannot expect cheap ammo to group reliably - it's designed for plinkers.
I buy the 333 packs and they're jacketed rounds. Are you shooting uncoated lead?
As far as I know the 333 is just a smaller box than the 555, and where I shop it's actually a cheaper price per round to buy the 333, so I get two at $12 where the 555 is almost $20.
I've shot the 333 packs with zero issues, less dead rounds than Federal and Remington, less ejection and feed issues, and better accuracy than the other bulk brands I've bought. But .22 is a fickle beast and I may have just bought a couple good ones from Winchester and hit a lot my gun didn't like from the others.
I would have hoped a bit better tho from winchester but the FTL's is what got me, its cheaper to get the better ammo after damaging that many rounds it avg higher anyways.
this time I bought CCI mini-mags for it .08 a round vs after the FTL's .05 a round winchester still cheaper then the .30 of the 5.56 and that ammo is scarce right now.
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Did you lose nearly half of the rounds? I buy the Winchester bulks for about 3.5 cents per round.
thacheese
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no they were plated with copper, had tons of feed issues, and by the end of the brick i couldn't even hit paper. i've never had any such issues with any other ammo. it probably has a lot to do with the fact that most seemed loose in the case, and in some cases the very pronounced hollow point would buckle and jam on feeding, other times it would apparently buckle, feed, and foul up the barrel.
Majorlk
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Just to straighten out a little confusion ...
There is no .22 LR ammo with jacketed bullets.
The bullets are plated, not jacketed. It is not the same thing. A jacketed bullet has a copper sleeve (a jacket) swaged over a lead core; a plated round is one that has a thin copper coating plated onto the lead.
I used a box of 555 once. I think every round fired just fine if not one failure to fire. Stuff was dirtier than my favorite, the CCI Blazer bulk and probably a bit less accurate. I'd try it out again but I do have a favorite/preferred bulk pack
