How to turn rimfire shooting into drudgery:
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:01 am
Use Remington ammo.
I went out to the range today with a depleted box of bulk Golden Bullets, a 100-round box of Remington Subsonic and a 50-round box of Eley Sport. The firearms used were my dad's old store-branded Marlin and my Ruger 22/45 Mark III. My primary purpose was to sight in a Bushnell 3-9x rimfire scope on the Marlin. It's cheap, but the entire purpose of that scope is to get used to shooting with a scope. I used the indoor 25-yard range at my gun club due to snow and nasty wind chill.
I emptied the box of Golden Bullets (about 140) and had about 15 rounds that needed a second strike to shoot, all in the Marlin. Accuracy was decent out of the rifle. At 25 yards rested, the rifle shot about 7 inches high. Eventually I got sick of not being able to move the shots onto the target, removed the scope, and did better shooting with open sights. I'll try sighting in again with better ammo but for now it's going to be open sights only.
I switched over to the pistol once the Golden Bullets ran out. The Remington Subsonic didn't feed well at all into the Ruger. Out of 40 rounds, 7 were duds and wouldn't fire on a second strike. At least the bulk ammo took the second strike! Accuracy at 10 rounds was "meh" at best. I then switched over to the Eley and fired 20 rounds. Eley Sport is made by Aguila and you can smell that. Every shot fired when struck, but something weird happened on a few shots. The extractor didn't pick up two of the 20 rounds and I had to manually chamber those rounds. Accuracy was pretty decent.
Now I have 60 rounds of Subsonic and half of another box of Golden Bullets left. I think they'll all go to the rifle just for the purposes of restriking them if there's a failure to fire. Once that's gone I'm switching to anyone but Big Green for ammo. I got hooked on them because I started with some Remington ammo from the 60s and 70s that shot well. Those days are long gone. I'll stick with CCI Mini-Mags as a default. Those have done well for me in the past.
I went out to the range today with a depleted box of bulk Golden Bullets, a 100-round box of Remington Subsonic and a 50-round box of Eley Sport. The firearms used were my dad's old store-branded Marlin and my Ruger 22/45 Mark III. My primary purpose was to sight in a Bushnell 3-9x rimfire scope on the Marlin. It's cheap, but the entire purpose of that scope is to get used to shooting with a scope. I used the indoor 25-yard range at my gun club due to snow and nasty wind chill.
I emptied the box of Golden Bullets (about 140) and had about 15 rounds that needed a second strike to shoot, all in the Marlin. Accuracy was decent out of the rifle. At 25 yards rested, the rifle shot about 7 inches high. Eventually I got sick of not being able to move the shots onto the target, removed the scope, and did better shooting with open sights. I'll try sighting in again with better ammo but for now it's going to be open sights only.
I switched over to the pistol once the Golden Bullets ran out. The Remington Subsonic didn't feed well at all into the Ruger. Out of 40 rounds, 7 were duds and wouldn't fire on a second strike. At least the bulk ammo took the second strike! Accuracy at 10 rounds was "meh" at best. I then switched over to the Eley and fired 20 rounds. Eley Sport is made by Aguila and you can smell that. Every shot fired when struck, but something weird happened on a few shots. The extractor didn't pick up two of the 20 rounds and I had to manually chamber those rounds. Accuracy was pretty decent.
Now I have 60 rounds of Subsonic and half of another box of Golden Bullets left. I think they'll all go to the rifle just for the purposes of restriking them if there's a failure to fire. Once that's gone I'm switching to anyone but Big Green for ammo. I got hooked on them because I started with some Remington ammo from the 60s and 70s that shot well. Those days are long gone. I'll stick with CCI Mini-Mags as a default. Those have done well for me in the past.