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I just got a brick of Mini-Mags last night from Scheels. They included the Mini-Mags with my rifle purchase and I bought a brick of CCI Standard Velocity as well. It's been blowing and snowing all day. Tough to see how this new CZ is going to shoot.
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MD, Kevin's has always been high; you don't go there for any bargains. Always had lots of eye candy to view.
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About two months ago (maybe less?) our local Big R got in a pallet of Mini-Mags. In a town this small the text messages and e-mails were flying fast. It was gone in about 8 hours.
Prices were pre-panic.
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Local gun shop near here had a pretty good supply of the Rem Golden Bullet and CCI Mini-Mag ammo on the shelf. Just bought 200 of the CCI as I have enough of the Remingtons. My Rem 552 Speedmaster shoots them just OK. I hope it does better with the CCIs. We'll see once the weather cooperates. Dave
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I shot some of that Auto Match Friday at the southwest campfire get-together and was not impressed. Didn't shoot any better than an old box of Wildcats and not nearly as well as the CCI standard velocity. It did go bang, however.
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Like most .22 Long Rifle ammo, how well it shoots depends on the particular firearm. Some rifles and handguns will shoot almost anything well (Eileen's Anschutz is one rifle, my Ruger Mark II "slabside" another), but with most don't. There are some kinds of ammo that shoot at least decently in a lot of guns, but there are always exceptions. In my experience Auto Match tends to work more often than not.
Between us we have 14 rifles and handguns chambered for the Long Rifle. Got a good deal on two kinds of .22 Shorts this past year and decided to see how they'd shoot. In some guns they did very well, in others they tended to scatter--and in others they were in between.
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One never knows what a particular 22lR weapon will like. My 617 is not fussy at all even shoots Remington's pretty well. Of course extraction gets stiff on the third cylinder full.. A new to me CZ 452 seems to really like Aquila Rifle Match shot it under 1/2" at 50 yards. Did not like the RWS Rifle Match that others love. I have a box of the Federal Auto Match, will have to see what it does. Local LGS still had the Remington/Eley Club at 14.99 per 50 nothing else. There was some 17HMR and 22Mag however.
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Sporadic. Only two stores in the county that I live in even try to retail it at normal prices. When it comes in, you better be there because the next day it's all sold. Any other places get any, it's like $30 for a box of Minimags and such ripoff tactics. The largest local gun/hunting/fishing store gets in several cases at a time, usually CCI, prices it at what it was before the mothereffing democrats got elected and you've got 24 to 48 hours to get some and it's gone until another random shipment comes in. As far as Walmart goes, if they get any in, I've not seen it in over two years now.
I can drive 70 miles or so up to Huntsville and Larry's usually has some, but there's most often a two box limit per customer, so if you didn't bring a carload of people with you or actually live nearby, it isn't worth the trip.
I can't afford to buy in bulk anymore, so shipping charges usually make it uneconomical to try to order in from the internet site retailers.
I've stopped all rimfire shooting except for serious hunting shots, no more target practice or plinking period. This mess has accomplished in a roundabout way exactly what the gun controllers would like to see, expensive and hard to get ammo for the guns that are the basic meat and potatoes and beginners firearms. All some democrat has to do is go "boogah boogah" and the next day all hell breaks loose and people are scrambling all over each other clawing for the last box of whatever the boogerman of the week was.
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It doesn't help that some people who are on the same side of the political spectrum as most of us think it is OK to scalp ammo. It's a free country and all, but IMO scalping ammo is playing right into the hands of the gun controllers. Ammo scalpers are hypocritical bastids.
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Like most .22 Long Rifle ammo, how well it shoots depends on the particular firearm. Some rifles and handguns will shoot almost anything well (Eileen's Anschutz is one rifle, my Ruger Mark II "slabside" another), but with most don't. There are some kinds of ammo that shoot at least decently in a lot of guns, but there are always exceptions. In my experience Auto Match tends to work more often than not.
Between us we have 14 rifles and handguns chambered for the Long Rifle. Got a good deal on two kinds of .22 Shorts this past year and decided to see how they'd shoot. In some guns they did very well, in others they tended to scatter--and in others they were in between.
I tried three types of standard velocity ammo in my CZ this week; Wolf Match, Federal Gold Medal Match and CCI standard velocity. All shot similarly but the faster stuff and the auto match were double the group sizes easily. I only brought one rimfire but shot a different one last week with the other three loads which did well in all three.
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I wanna try some of the federal high velocity gold medal stuff 1200 fps range cant find none around
they got the fed gold medal ultra match and the gold medal match at academy all the time 18.99 and 12.99 apeice
I shoot the norma match-22 currently one thing I have noticed about accuracy in my rifle is the more bearing surface on the round the tigheter the groups
the CCI small game bullet shoots extremely well in it 1235fps and the bearing surface on the round is almost completely smooth
the agulia rifle match has a pretty long bearing surface and shot well but also had 2-3 wax grooves on it
the norma match 22 round also has 3 wax grooves
it is all what the gun likes and what you can find nowadays
if I could find some CCI small game bullet item 0058 5.99 I would buy the shyt outta whatever supply I could find of it
but until then norma match 22 7.95 norma tac 22 5.99 cci sv 4.99 aguila rifle match 5.99 will do and they all basically group within a 1/4th inch of each other at 50yds and I can find them pretty consistently around here
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Did not see much for sale at scalper prices at the local gun show this weekend, but still not on the shelves at the stores. Worked the door with a employee from a LGS and he was talking about how hard it was to find .22 LR from any distributors that they use.
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Checked couple stores this past Saturday. Nothing to be seen.
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I went to a gun store that I never been to before and they had all the .22 and .22 mag ammo I could ever want. Thats at green lake, MN
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I bought a Ruger SR22 today... they didn't have any ammo to sell for it other than some 50 rnd ct target stuff @ $30 a box.
I still have quite a bit on hand, but sage rats season is looming if not already here and it's gonna get dicey quick !
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Honestly I hate going to gun stores anymore because the story seems to always be the same, no 22lr, no handgun powder.
I do see some thunderbolt on occasion, but until I'm completely out of ammo I'm not going to run that filthy stuff that is guaranteed to give you several failures to fire.
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short hijack...Sportsman's in Soldotna had a couple kegs of H110 and 3 or 4 pounds of the same after I purchased mine yesterday. end....
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Come visit Florida for a week or so. Weather is warm. Bring a truck, or a trailer for the return journey.
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Lots of 17hmr.
22lr and mag are still sparse, at best.
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short hijack...Sportsman's in Soldotna had a couple kegs of H110 and 3 or 4 pounds of the same after I purchased mine yesterday. end.... Seller is GTG. https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...9629872/Hodgdon_H110_8#_kegs#Post9629872
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