A good round for my Ruger 22/45

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I've been testing several makes in my pistol and here are my results for 100 rounds.
"Incidents" may be anything that would make you call for an alibi, but mainly a failure to fully eject a spent case and chamber a new round.

Armscor .22 LR 36gr High Velocity : .6 incidents
CCI Pistol Match .22LR : 1 incident
CCI Mini Mag .22LR HP : 5 incidents
Eley Target : 0
Fiocchi Exacta : 0
Geco .22LR semi-auto : 5.5 incidents

How do you understand that ? Should I stick to high velocity rounds, or expensive ones ?
What do you feed your own 22/45 ?
 
I use mostly Federal 36 gr plated bulk in my MK pistols with very little trouble. If I get a misfeed, I know it's time to clean the chamber area. I use a dry lube on the bolt. Oil will just make the fouling stick and cause malfunctions.
 
In 600 rounds of half a dozen brands I have had one failure. I believe it was Federal. I think you are better off with high velocity rounds and a clean properly lubed gun.
 
My 22/45 was exceptionally reliable with all ammo (mostly federal champion) for 10K rounds. I started having some ignition issues and tracked it down to a broken rebound spring and the LCI body (I removed the LCI guts when new). It ejects and feeds everything if the primer fires. Exceptionally reliable handgun. I'd look at your extractor closely. If the pistol is brand new, I'd run CCI mini mags or remington golden bullets (or other "HV" stuff) until it loosens up. Mine was GTG right out of the box.

You might try removing the LCI and see if that helps at all... they are known to cause strange issues.
 
I had a Volquartsen ejector installed and it solved it. The pistol is now reliable and shot whatever I fed it during the last month but subsonics.
Special thanks to 1KPerDay : I was on the verge of throwing the pistol away when all I had to do was to replace a $10 part.
 
Stimovsky said:
I had a Volquartsen ejector installed and it solved it. The pistol is now reliable and shot whatever I fed it during the last month but subsonics.
Special thanks to 1KPerDay : I was on the verge of throwing the pistol away when all I had to do was to replace a $10 part.
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I have a lot of stovepipes shooting Wolf through my 22/45. Would that part help with that?
 
Wolf is subsonic and covered with greasy lube. Both are likely contributing factors to your feeding problems. VQ makes a lighter recoil spring for subsonic ammo.
 
My 22/45 almost never jams. Only three or four times, that I can recall anyway, in the 5000 rounds I have put through it. I have some VQ parts but not the extractor.

I've shot a lot of a hodgepodge of ammo brands through it, but nothing less than standard velocity. Some of the hyper stuff too but not a lot. Nothing has stood out as unreliable. I get the best accuracy with Minimags and Automatch.
 
I get the best accuracy and reliability with CCI MiniMags and Wolf Match Target. I don't know what kind of lube they use on the Wolf ammo but I swear the gun is cleaner after I'm done using it than before I started shooting! Next up would be Federal Automatch though it's just not quite in the same league as the CCI and Wolf ammo in my guns.
 
CCI is the standard for "good" ammo for us.
My 83 you father just bought a 22/45 because he was having trouble cocking his single six..
I sighted his new gun in for him with CCI minimags.

Small groups. Zero incidents.
 
Mini Mag isn't a guarantee of good function like some people believe it is. I love the stuff, but there are a few guns of mine that aren't happy with it in some formats. My 60's High Standard Duramatic won't chamber any HP, even Mini Mag. Round nose Mini Mag work just fine, though. The Armscorp works great in it.

My number one problem .22 ammo is Winchester Super X, especially HP, but often round nose as well.

My .22/45 Ruger hates Super X, but does great with Mini Mag. I guess we're rediscovering a truism here: ,22 pistols are still idiosyncratic, like they always have been. :) New pistols deal better with HP ammo nowadays, but beyond that, still a little finicky.
 
I have 6 MK II pistols and can't say there is any one high velocity ammo they won't run reliably on....I learned not put oil on the gun. .22 ammo is dirty. Oil just holds the fouling and causes problems. I lightly lube the bolt with a dry lube like Hornady One Shot case lube or Eezoxx and nothing else. The guns will go a long time before having a hiccup.
 
When I shot Bullseye our cheap go to ammo was CCI Blazer. It was more accurate than I could shoot.

That being said I personally haven't seen any on the shelves for quite a while
 
When Blazer was on the shelves, there was allegedly two different "grades". The stuff in bulk value packs and the stuff in 50 round boxes. Word was they were made by different manufacturers. The 50 round per box stuff sure groups well out of my CZ rifles for budget ammo. I bought a case of 5k about a week before Sandy Hook for 179 shipped. I wish I would have gotten a truck load.
 
Huh, surprised to hear this about the 22/45, I have a MKIII 22/45 that rarely hiccups. I mainly use these.

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ColtPythonElite said:
I have 6 MK II pistols and can't say there is any one high velocity ammo they won't run reliably on....I learned not put oil on the gun. .22 ammo is dirty. Oil just holds the fouling and causes problems. I lightly lube the bolt with a dry lube like Hornady One Shot case lube or Eezoxx and nothing else. The guns will go a long time before having a hiccup.
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I have a MK II that I hate to admit I have never taken apart to clean. I blast it with compressed air once in a great while. It has worked for 25 years or so.
 
Hanzo581, that AutoMatch stuff surprised me in a good way the first time I tried it. I'm glad it did, because that was all I could get easily during the drought, so I have scads of it now.

Incidentally, I've only run it in two guns so far, a Taurus PT22 and a Mossberg 702 Plinkster. Both are "cheap" guns, and both not only ran it well in terms of function, but got good accuracy from them also. I've yet to try it in either of my Mk-II pistols, though, or in anything else. I just haven't gotten them to the range recently.
 
JONWILL said:
When I shot Bullseye our cheap go to ammo was CCI Blazer. It was more accurate than I could shoot.

That being said I personally haven't seen any on the shelves for quite a while
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I saw individually boxed bricks in a store today for 30 bucks....i was surprised to see it.
 
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