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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
I did get to try that new Federal .22 with a different rifle,
this one a bolt action with iron sights.
Much better results. Same as before, rest was decent but not the most solid, so not bad at all. Several more groups fired, same results. Seems it's a case of that other not liking this ammo.
2 comments:
Robert Orians
said...
I've never had a misfire on Fed .22 but one thing I found out . I bought [horded] tons of the federal .22 hollow point many years ago . 525 rounds were $12 at a local sporting goods store and I hit them hard for a year or two . Last fall I heard a noise in my attached greenhouse late at night . We kept a big sweet beautiful black cat we called Sheba out there to control the rodents . After entering the door the problem , a big old boar coon stood up on his back legs , showed his teeth and growled at me . I put the S&W 22a on him and fired one . No expansion at all . It went through him and hit my Sheba girl right in the belly . She died on the vets table . Sure had the blues after that . Mr coon took off but left a good blood trail . I followed it and found him under the back porch dead . I don't know if lead gets hard after 25 or 30 years or not but these feds did not expand at all .
Years back I shot a number of .22 HPs into water jugs, and most had very little expansion. I've still got that Paco tool around, I ought to use it on some and try it again.
I'd also try those CCI segmented subsonic HPs, see how they do.
2 comments:
I've never had a misfire on Fed .22 but one thing I found out . I bought [horded] tons of the federal .22 hollow point many years ago . 525 rounds were $12 at a local sporting goods store and I hit them hard for a year or two . Last fall I heard a noise in my attached greenhouse late at night . We kept a big sweet beautiful black cat we called Sheba out there to control the rodents . After entering the door the problem , a big old boar coon stood up on his back legs , showed his teeth and growled at me . I put the S&W 22a on him and fired one . No expansion at all . It went through him and hit my Sheba girl right in the belly . She died on the vets table . Sure had the blues after that . Mr coon took off but left a good blood trail . I followed it and found him under the back porch dead . I don't know if lead gets hard after 25 or 30 years or not but these feds did not expand at all .
Years back I shot a number of .22 HPs into water jugs, and most had very little expansion. I've still got that Paco tool around, I ought to use it on some and try it again.
I'd also try those CCI segmented subsonic HPs, see how they do.
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