I am going to get either a Anschutz 1710D or a Cooper 57M .22 rifle to target shoot with. Right now all i shoot is air rifles, but i want the .22 in order to experience accuracy at 50 and 100 yards.

The cooper says it is test fired with Fed Gold Ultra Match ammo before it leaves the factory. Where is the best place to buy good .22 shells like that? Thanks for any help.

Plinker603

You sure you've posted in the correct forum

Expecting good and cheap in the same product, I think he has!

No wonder i couldn't find this. Was supposed to be in Target and Benchrest. SORRY

Plinker603

Sorry if I was a bit pointed but I always think of good and cheap ammo (or guns) as the same thing as good and cheap women. Impossible!

Hobie have foot in mouth! That Is a girl. derf

of course she's a girl derf..... don't she look like a girl to you ???????

Doesn't matter to me if it is Mother Teresa. Good and cheap in most things is as hard to find as a good and cheap woman. No doubt about it. Don't remember saying the respondent was a cheap woman. Hell if she shoots, she's probably better than most I know!

Somebody told me to go ahead and just use regular shells, not the REAL cheap ones, but they don't have to be match grade either. Thanks for the replies, though.

Plinker603

Maybe he really just wanted shells for the 22 and at most ranges where the 22 are shot, you can find load of shells all over the ground..Won't cost a penny for a brick or more..

Free shells for the picking..

Mike

WOWWWWWWWWW!!! I love that idea. Maybe you and me could team up. I'll do the Plinkin, you do the Retrievin.

Plinker603

Plinker603,

First, you had to post in the Humor forum, so I thought it was humorous.

The best inexpensive .22LR I know of is the Winchester Dynapoint. Not good for hunting though unless you put a small game point (SGP) on it. You can see an example in CCI's SGB ammo. Otherwise, I like Winchester's PowerPoint (PP) ammo. Works good in both pistols and rifles.

Yeah, there's a lot of cheap stuff out there, but not all good. However, the expensive stuff ain't all necessarily that good.

What you doin' with your ammo, targets, game, plinkin'?

Hobie,

I mostly target shoot with air rifles and i've killed a lot of starlings that enter the no fly zone here. My plans for the .22 will be the same, except to shoot bigger holes from farther away.

Plinker603

Your gun may like the Federal, Remington, Winchester, etc. but you can almost always find a "deal" somewhere. The Winchester PP ammo is about the best hollowpoint .22 LR out there. Of course I'm not talking about the various HV stuff, I never seem to see any of that on sale. I guess it is just too easy to sell at the regular price. Putting an SGB point on the Dynapoints works really well though even on pest birds like starlings and pigeons.

I should add that I lived for several years in WV, Durbin, Bartow, Elkins, Huntersville (boy has that changed), Thomas, Davis, and Beckley. Right across the mountain from us...

[ 09-28-2003, 04:37: Message edited by: Hobie ]

Plinker

I thought it was funny about all the shells..I hope you were laughing...
I would just shoot any that are on sale or if accuracy is the answer, I would shoot federal match ammo...
You do not have to shoot at 100yds with the 22 just shoot 50 ft targets at 25yds and 50yds..If I am correct the Xat 25 would be equal to a 100 yds shot and so on...
Good luck and make the shot...

Mike Podwika
Mayor

Yeah, Retreever, i was laughing about all the shells. Sometimes i forget to use the icons, so here is some for yesterday and some for today.


I was gonna do more but that is the maximum allowable icons in one post. I owe you a couple smilies.

Plinker603

Plinker - If you run out of starlings where you live, I'll let you have my "front yard starling lease" real, REAL cheap.

Pecos,

If i lived nearby, i'd take you up on that. YOU should get you an air rifle an take care of them. I got em chased away from here. They used to build their nasty nests up in the loft of my garage causing a fire hazard because of all the dry grass they carried up there. But between the trapping and shooting them, you won't see one anyplace on my property. But this winter when they get good and hungry they'll drop in to grab a few bites of my yummy suet. Their last supper. I hate them because they are the ugly and mean and they are out of control.

Plinker603

Plinker

I've had good luck with the hardware-store American Eagle red box stuff. Most of my .22s like it and one or two shoot it in a way they just aren't supposed to!

I can vouch firsthand that it will handsomely kill gophers (ground squirrels) out past 125 yards too! Cheap, accurate, kills bugs dead. What more could you want?

Redial