Winchester Rimfire Rant

[Retired-LEO]

A friend gave me a bunch of Winchester .22LR ammunition (2) Types: #1) M22 & #2) Silvertip

First off I have been shooting Rimfire for about 40 years. Out of the 40 years I have found Winchester Rimfire to be some of the worst rimfire rounds made.

The quality control on Winchester is crap. Many of the M22's were crooked, improperly seated and many had primers that would not go off even

with decent double strikes. So I figured it's because the M22 is their bulk crap. So I tried the Winchester Silvertip (which is packaged 50 per box).

As I attempted to fire the Silvertip's out of (2) Ruger pistols that are usually extremely reliable: A Ruger MKIV 22/45 LITE and a LCP2 22LR. both pistols

had constant problems with the Silvertip's they would not fire two rounds in a row both had constant failure to feed and or failure to eject.

After shooting ALL of the Silvertips's 100 rounds (literally one at a time and clear the malfunction. I pulled out a bag of assorted 22LR's (made up

of CCI, Aguila, Remington and Federal... Both pistols had no issues firing ANY of the brands other than Winchester. Needless to say I have ZERO

interest in shooting Winchester Rimfire again!

 

[pupchow]

I have a bunch of different .22LR ammo. Some of it I have set aside as crap ammo. Any Winchester ammo I have is in that group.

 

[Zappa]

You're not the only one who has expressed their displeasure with Winchester .22 ammo lately.
Several posts about it in this recent thread:

Interesting NEW Ammo from CCI

Interesting NEW Ammunition from CCI. CCI CLEAN-22 HYPER VELOCITY it's a 31 grain bullet with an advertised velocity of 1550 With a velocity greater than Federal PUNCH .22LR and CCI MiniMags and the fact that it does NOT have a hollow point... This ammunition just might penetrate deeper than...

www.northeastshooters.com

 

[Broc]

Winchester does not make good ammo. Once in a while they get it right for some calibers.

If you pick a random powder load from a reloading book, with one bullet weight, chances are that ammo will be as accurate or better than Winchester ammo.

 

[DW357]

I had a lot of issues with the M22 ammo. Would not reliably feed.

 

[jkelly1229]

Interesting i havent had issues with that stuff..but i also havent shot it in a while

The white box bulk packs were just trash

 

[T-Unit]

The majority of issues I see with Winchester rinfire is cycling in autos, so I see it as a brand that is best kept to using in manual actions like revolvers, bolt, and lever action.

The priming is not as good as CCi. I only buy either Hyper Velocity or bulk 555, nothing else Winchester makes for .22 interests me.