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CMP 22 ammo

otter6412otter6412 Member Posts: 91 ✭✭
edited April 2018 in Ask the Experts
CMP is advertising "Eley" 22 LR in bulk packs for sale, about 7 cents a round. Has anyone tried this stuff? I have some finicky semi-autos which may not like it.

Thanks for any info.

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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    During the Obama ammo famine. I bought any .22 ammo, I could get my hands on. Some of it, was "White Box", that I believe was from CMP? It shot OK. Didn't crono it, But subjectively it seemed to be the same as standard velocity ammo. That crono's around 900 FPS.

    Most semi-autos, work fine with this standard velocity ammo. Although
    i have run across some guns, that choke on it. And require high velocity 1000+ FPS .22's to function reliability.
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  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I no longer buy bulk pack 22 ammo. It will work (feed and maybe even shoot fine in single shots, revolvers and perhaps even lever, pumps but autoloader's are another issue. I like CCI mini-mags and their CB Longs.

    I still have bulked pack crap 22 ammo from Remington Federal American Eagle Winchester from the early 2000's and even before. Even when it was fresh it was bang, bang, plip, dud.

    I took all my 22's out and tried some of every brand and type of ammo I could get. CCI's did the best hands down. I did need to polish the chamber in my 121 Remington pump to make it easy to extract. But the autoloaders all cycled fine with out FTF. Every round sounded the same and there were no duds.

    added I just shot a 50 round box of Remington Golden bullets that were bought in 1966 for a penny a each. No issues in the model 12 Remington, that has some extraction problems with new hi higher speed/pressure stuff. Storage conditions rule the shelf life, and its not just yours; it likely starts with the components at the factory.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have most brands on the shelf. We shoot a lot of .22. The only name brand that I've encountered a FTF or light loads has been Rem. golden bullet bulk packs. IMHO -powder charge incosistent.
    Win, CCI, Federal, Armscore -all fire fine.
    I do use Eley when tack driving. Fine .22
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,146 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shot "military issue"22lr back in 1970. It was standard velocity and was pretty accurate in our match rifles. Most of what we used for practice ammo was 3-5 years old with the fresh stuff reserved for competition. A few years back, I received a case from CMP that was a couple of decades old and found it OK but not match grade by any stretch.
    After the ammo famine, CMP may have some fresher hand-me-down ammo these days. If your score on the board or your reputation isn't at stake(logically you wouldn't be shooting stale ammo if either was), the CMP is good enough.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have found that after the 22lr Famine it looked like all brands of 22lr standard velocity became lacking in QC but along with this also problems in the type of handling AMMO was going through. I had shooters at our weekly matches save any rounds that had MISSFIRE
    over 90 % of these failures had primers that were broken up and into the powder if one pulled the bullet out of the case I think ammo is being dropped in shipping breaking the priming and leaving voids in the primer where it should be in 360 degrees of the rim if you have miss fire carefully remove the bullet then pour the powder into your hand ans see if you have light green flakes" the priming compound mixed into the powder [V][xx(][:(]
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    what is typical shelf life of 22 ammo these days?
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 22 ammo about 25 years old that still works just fine.

    I find that Remington golden bullets (not the thunder duds) along with federal automatch, and cci minimags really do well in the auto loaders.

    EDIT: Forgot to mention I have been told that ELEY is the stuff our Olympic athletes use...of course we did pretty poorly in the biathlon this year so...you be the judge.
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  • geeguygeeguy Member Posts: 1,047 ✭
    edited November -1
    Many Bullseye shooters using it, works well in pistols. A little lighter then CCI Std.

    As long as your rifles will use Std Vel. you should be fine. Some of my semi's won't shoot Std Vel, but most will.
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,146 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "I have 22 ammo about 25 years old that still works just fine."

    By "works fine" do you mean "goes bang"? My Grandkids are in that performance expectation group.
    My comments were relative to competitive level accuracy in match grade rifles where scores are winners or not based on the width of a pencil mark.
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