Mil Surp Remington .22LR?

[jimmythegeek]

Anybody have any experience with this stuff? I usually avoid Remington ammo.

[guy sajer]

Got a photo of a box ?

[insomni]

since when has .22LR been military surplus?

[jimmythegeek]

I don't know for sure but I suspect the military used it for small bore rifle competition until someone looked at the 5.56 round and decided that was redundant.

[Cheapshooter]

So where did you see this ammo? I just checked the CMP website, and all I saw was Aguila Centurion 22 rimfire.

[aarondhgraham]

It was purchased from an estate for $60.00/case.
I bought three 5,000 round sealed cases of it last year,,,
It's lead with a round nose and comes in a generic white box.

So far I've shot up several 500 round bricks,,,
I'm somewhere in the 6th brick if I recall correctly.

It goes bang every time I pull the trigger,,,
I haven't had one dud round yet.

I don't use it in my semi-auto handguns.

I have used it with my semi-auto Mossberg Plinkster,,,
It cycles the action on that rifle well enough.

Mainly I use it with my revolvers and single-shot rifles.

The only complaint I have is that my revolvers lead up rather quickly,,,
After a couple hundred rounds I push a lot of lead out of the barrel.

I'll take a pic of it tonight,,,
Just to see if we are talking about the same stuff.

Aarond

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[plumbercrack]

Stay away from that Aguila crap ammo. You will be lucky to get 100 rounds fired without a cleaning. Dirtiest ammo I ever bought.

[Hansam]

Regular Remington .22LR is hit and miss as it is. I stay away from it - I get duds all the time. Usually there's a dud in each mag I load if I use Remington.

I don't know about the mil-surp Remington though... I never knew that it existed.

In any case, cheap as it may be, I'll stick with my cheap standby - Federal bulk packs from Wal-Mart.

[johnbt]

There it is. Oops. Sold out 2/27. 1995 production.

www.odcmp.com/Sales/ammo.htm

[aarondhgraham]

But the Remington, stock number 4S22RSURP-5000, is exactly what I have.

For the price I paid (1.2 cents a round) it's good enough ammo.

Aarond