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Campfire Ranger
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My 581 loved them. As some one above posted, "like Stingers, but accurate".
Thanks for the heads up. Stole my words...
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2008
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My 581 loved them. As some one above posted, "like Stingers, but accurate".
Thanks for the heads up. Stole my words... Exactamundo!!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Joined: May 2016
Posts: 60,698 Likes: 41
Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2016
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We used to use them as our Big Medicine for gophers when we were kids.
Used them sparigly.
I will not however use them in a semi auto...specifically a 10 22.
Too much schit flying out of the ejection port. Gets in your eyes.
I only shoot them out of bolt and lever guns.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
Joined: Jun 2012
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The truncated cone shaped bullets feed very nicely in my High Standard pistol when other highly rated brands failed to feed.. I might need to pick up a box, see if they function as well as the old stuff. If they do, I see a case of them in my near future. I COLLECT HI STANDARD . YOU SHOULD NOT FIRE HI VELOCITY AMMO IN THOSE PISTOLS. There is an weakness in the frame and design. You can run a million rounds with standard velocity and a good recoil spring. That is TWO things. This is regardless of what you may have read when these sold new. Time has proven this to be the reality.
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Campfire Greenhorn
Joined: May 2018
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep a look out for some.
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Joined: Jan 2004
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jan 2004
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Like the CCI Stinger, the Yellow Jackets are a "hyper velocity" round. They sacrifice a little bullet weight to get more velocity than a standard high velocity round. So basically they make spectacular explosions out of fragile targets like full pop cans and varmints. Plus the Yellow Jackets have a cool picture on the side of the box.  ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/FRSGmycy/IMG-1678.jpg) Plus t hey were a lot more accurate than Stingers in every one of my rimfire rifles. Yellow Jackets were the best of the hyper velocity rounds when I was a teenager and I shot a shytload of them. Wouldn't guarantee they're much good now as the quality of all Remington .22 ammo has gone in the crapper over the years. They were awesome out of Winchester 52 28 inch barrels, killing ground squirrels at 100 yards, dead!
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Campfire Regular
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Just an update. Got out and did some shooting last week. The new Yellow Jackets aren't as accurate as the old ones.. at least in my sample of two guns- CZ 455 American & Ruger 10/22 with Kidd barrel. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/Sxf5LzFY/E2563502-9902-4-B20-8013-6-C2-ABB89-CB47.jpg)
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Regular
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Yes, what I'm calling the "new" Yellow Jackets, I dug out of the same 500 round brick I bought in December '18. The pictures above, are the results of the "new" Yellow Jackets fired from my CZ 455 & Ruger 10/22 on 5-30-19.
The "old" ones were from the last couple boxes of leftover Yellow Jackets from the beginning of the .22 lr ammo shortage and fired in the same two rifles- but a couple of years ago. My data shows that with the "old" stuff, the CZ averaged 1.42" 5 shot groups at 50 yards and the Kidd 10/22 averaged .84" 5 shot groups at 50 yards.
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