Which brand of 22 ammo is most likely to have the fewest dead priming spots? I have an acquaintance who insists her 22 revolver is all she’s willing to use as a self-defense gun. IMO reliability is the single most important factor for this use, more so than velocity or fancy bullets. My first instinct would be something from Eley. Am I wrong?
The one that lead the most easy life.
All of them can have issues, all of them will have issues if boxes get tossed around in shipping, get stored in a less than ideal location.
What so many people....."gun people" and also add in there men just can't get through their thick skulls is there are people that want to protect themselves but just can't do recoil. Older and female top this list. They are also the ones that just can't do an automatic for many of the same reasons.
A DA 22 revolver is about as good as it is going to get, the more rounds it will hold the better. Like the other poster said, if click no bang pull the trigger again.
But in the end no rimfire cartridge will be immune from blank spots along the rim where the priming compound goes, it is the nature of the beast, no way around it.
And any and all rimfire ammo is subject to being "mis handled or stored" more then their centerfire brothers.
None are any "better" then the others, as you have seen from the answers already posted they all have issues. Some more then others, Loose rounds allowed to "rattle around" in a box or bucket are going to have a higher failure rate just due to the nature in how they are packed. Little plastic boxes with nice little holes for each round (CCI) cost money, more then a simple cardboard box or bucket, you pay for this as well. One of the things you get is that reliability due to how they are transported.
