What's your Ruger Single Six's favorite food?
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loadedround
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Since my Single Sixes are plikers and not target pistols, I shoot whatever is on sale when I need ammo. Minute of Coke can is good enough for me. 
thunder173
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Mine likes the Winchester Super X 40 Gr HP in 22 magnum,..I generally use CCI mini mags in the LR cylinder. Your's may vary,...but unless you are going to use it as a paper puncher,..I agree that minute of bunnie at a reasonable distance is good enuff.
CajunBass
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I've got about twenty, 22's...rifles and handguns. I'm much to lazy and cheap to try to figure out what each gun "likes" and to keep that in stock. I've settled on Federal bulk pack ammo, either blue or brown box, for all of them. It may not be "best" in any of them, but it's "good enough" for all of them.
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CraigC
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I use Remington Golden Bullets. Contrary to popular internet lore, they are accurate and misfires are few and far between. They also run true to their advertised velocity, about 100fps faster than Federal bulk, despite similar claimed numbers. I shoot 2000-3000rds of the stuff a month.
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Since my Single-Six is used mostly for plinking, I tend to do like others and use Federal bulk pack for that. With my semi-autos, I have found Wolf Target and CCI MiniMags to give me reliable and accurate performance in .22LR.
Since my Single-Six is used mostly for plinking, I tend to do like others and use Federal bulk pack for that. With my semi-autos, I have found Wolf Target and CCI MiniMags to give me reliable and accurate performance in .22LR.
robhof
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I usually buy the cheapest brick of 22's, which is most always the Federal and they shoot great through my SS. I've found that it will shoot most anything well, except the subsonic rounds; they have a very different POI than any of the others I've shot.
I wanted to see just how accurate my SS was, so I bought about a dozen different kinds of target ammo, and tested those against a bunch of different kinds of regular ammo.
Then I shot five 5-shot groups from each box.
Some target ammo, like Winchester T-22 and CCI Green Tag, didn't group well at all. Most of the fancy, expensive European target ammo (Eley, Lapua) didn't do all that well, either.
But Federal Gold Medal Match 711B makes dime-size groups in my basement range (about 25 ft.). Federal Gold Medal Match 900B shot well, too.
For just regular plinking cheap plinking, I use RWS Sub Sonic or CCI Standard Velocity.
So my Single Six eats a lot of lead round nose bullets, but rarely sees a copper plated one.
Then I shot five 5-shot groups from each box.
Some target ammo, like Winchester T-22 and CCI Green Tag, didn't group well at all. Most of the fancy, expensive European target ammo (Eley, Lapua) didn't do all that well, either.
But Federal Gold Medal Match 711B makes dime-size groups in my basement range (about 25 ft.). Federal Gold Medal Match 900B shot well, too.
For just regular plinking cheap plinking, I use RWS Sub Sonic or CCI Standard Velocity.
So my Single Six eats a lot of lead round nose bullets, but rarely sees a copper plated one.
22-rimfire
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Blazer's are high velocity as are the Mini-Mags. CCI makes a standard velocity round called "Standard Velocity" as opposed to mini-mags or whatever. The best price for most folks on the CCI SV is usually at Dicks Sporting Goods where they sell it in 50ct boxes by the brick. That assumes they have them in stock and you have a store in your area.
Kernel
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Winchester Power Point hollow points, the mfgr's product number is X22LRPP. It has a full 40 gr. bullet and moves out at about 1280 fps from a rifle-length barrel. My 4-5/8" Single Six loves them.
Another vote here for the Winchester PowerPoint HP 40 grains. My Ruger Single Six 4 5/8 loves them too. Also shoots Hyper Vel CCI Velocitor and Aguila Interceptors pretty well too. On the WMR side, mine likes CCI Maxi-Mags 40 grain, and Winchester Super X 40 grain.
Confederate
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Actually, the best solution might not be the ammo, but a device that causes the bullet to expand slightly in size before you put it in the gun. Such a device is sold by Paco Kelly, and it's a miracle worker for the Ruger. You put the bullet in the device's chamber, put in the rod and give it a tap. This expands the bullet slightly and improves accuracy greatly! It also can add hollowpoints to regular ammo, which makes them much more devastating.
Do a Google search and explore the options (I'm on a phone-thing right now or I'd find it for you.
If anyone can add some feedback on the Paco Kelly device, I'd like to hear some myself.
Good luck.
Do a Google search and explore the options (I'm on a phone-thing right now or I'd find it for you.
If anyone can add some feedback on the Paco Kelly device, I'd like to hear some myself.
Good luck.
Confederate
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The Paco Kelly Website is here.
The reason this device works so well with the Single-Six is because it deforms the bullet head just enough to make it fit the slightly larger bore-size, which was made just a smidgen larger to accommodate the .22WMR round. Unfortunately, while this allows the gun to shoot both .22LR and .22WMR, it does mean that the Single-Six is slightly less accurate than other .22LR guns. The Acu'rzr makes the .22LR bullet size just a tad bit larger, and that means it can turn the Single-Six into a tack driver.
The device also can make the bullets into different configurations. Check the website for more details. Here is a photo of some of the configurations you can get.
Paco Kelly is a great guy to do business with. Just tell him that you have a Single-Six when you place the order. You can read a review of it here.
The reason this device works so well with the Single-Six is because it deforms the bullet head just enough to make it fit the slightly larger bore-size, which was made just a smidgen larger to accommodate the .22WMR round. Unfortunately, while this allows the gun to shoot both .22LR and .22WMR, it does mean that the Single-Six is slightly less accurate than other .22LR guns. The Acu'rzr makes the .22LR bullet size just a tad bit larger, and that means it can turn the Single-Six into a tack driver.
The device also can make the bullets into different configurations. Check the website for more details. Here is a photo of some of the configurations you can get.
Paco Kelly is a great guy to do business with. Just tell him that you have a Single-Six when you place the order. You can read a review of it here.
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