waimo wrote:What are peoples thoughts on the US made 22 ammo . Thought I might give the subsonic 42 grainers a go . Find the cci subsonic hollow points although accurate and consistant poor killers when chest shots are taken.
I go for CCI and Eley first, if I can't find something that shoots then I start playing with other stuff. Ideally I want a new rifle to shoot well with CCI Standard Velocity, it's cheap, available, reliable and accurate.
I generally don't aim at the chest as I prefer head shots but I took a trotting fox with a side-on heart shot with CCI Standard Velocity. The .22LR is always going to kill better in the brain/cervical spine. Rabbits in particular have the reflex kicking that can send them down a burrow before you can get to them, though I'm not convinced a clean low-velocity head shot totally prevents that. CCI MiniMag and Velocitor aren't terrible for me but are well short of the precision of the Standard Velocity. Federal F510 is another high-velocity that seems to shoot well for a lot of people, and is even cheaper than the CCI SV, when it's available.
If you can get decent groups out of the 1500fps Remington Yellow Jacket, and your firearm will feed the truncated bullet, it is known for excellent bullet deformation.
If you really want a hollow-point design, some people will find a round-nose target cartridge that shoots well, then they run them through a bullet pointing tool to press a hollow-point into them, often without losing much of their accuracy. As the tool also swages the bullet up to a consistent diameter it can sometimes improve accuracy.