22 lr amo - good, bad, ugly

Have not bought 22 lr ammo since getting a 500 round brick for 10 bucks. My brother ask me to pick him up a couple boxes of 22 lr. but "not the cheap stuff that jams a lot".

I see there are a lot of brands that I am guessing were not around in the late 80, early 90s.

How are the old school bands nowadays ? Are the like classic electronics from Emerson, RCA, and others, just a name stamped on some unknown mfgs goods ?

What brands should be avoided, not just cheap and should be avoided, but also what is expensive and no better than the cheap stuff?

The only info other info I have is he wants to use it for target practice. No ejection device info. He is slow to respond to questions....

Thanks all !

You buy CCI and Winchester and just use it. 

I go through a lot of 22lr and those are the most reliable that I have tried in about 10 different platforms. If its a manually cycled ejector rifle you can use just about anything that fits in a barrel.

Yep, what weary said. My go to is CCI (manufactured in my home town) but I have also had good success with Winchester. CCI Stingers are my favorite in semi auto pistols but its super hard to find now.

I had some terrible 22lr rounds, manufactured by Peters, but I don't think they even manufacture ammunition anymore. It was in a white box with blue lettering. I got it from my dad so it was probably from the 70s lol.

I've bought a ton of whatever rural king has on hand.

If the ammo is jamming in a gun maybe some basic maintenance is in order. I shot my ancient, my grandpa bought I think before I was even born or close to it and I'm approaching 50, ruger 10/22, put a few boxes of Norma without a jam and I don't think this gun has been cleaned in 40 yrs. Even through some amscor through it without issue. I'm pretty sure I bought the amscor for $2 or $3/50.

Glad to see CCI is mfg'd in the us.

Thanks for the input.

I am another CCl user. Use it for competition with out any issue. 

stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:

Yep, what weary said. My go to is CCI (manufactured in my home town) but I have also had good success with Winchester. CCI Stingers are my favorite in semi auto pistols but its super hard to find now.

I hoarded up a bunch of CCI stingers and subsonic around 5- years back. ~15K or so rounds because I shoot so much of it, getting down to the dregs of it now and regretting I did not get more when it was cheap and I could have it sent to the door in California. It really is the best on the market but you pay 30%+ for the quality. 22lr varies a lot even batch to batch, I have a lot of the aqulia hyper rounds that work in almost everything that are older. The last 5000rd brick I bought is garbage. 

22lr should be used for fun and rodents where reliability is not your main concern. 

The last big box I bought I think was Winchester Wildcat .22, and it was pretty sketchy.  A lot of FTE's.

The best I've found recently was SK Long Range Match.  Superbly accurate in my Ruger 10/22.

No complaints about CCI, especially given the price.