Hunting ammo

[pastorp]

Anyone use paccos hollow point tool? It makes a lot bigger cavity in the nose of a 22 bullet.
How about cci small game bullet? It was flat nosed. Or do you find regular HP or stingers work good for hunting.

Opinions?

[BUGEYE]

my brand new favorite ammo is federal automatch.  good accuracy in my rifles and work flawlessly in pistols.  and being a plain lead bullet would lend itself to easy hollow pointing.
velocity is 1200 fps.  kinda in-between everything else.

[marine]

  I always use remington thunderbolts for hunting or targeting.  I have never had any trouble killing groundhogs or squirrels with them.  Some people dont like them but it seems to be decent ammo in all my .22 rifles.

[Rangr44]

Many years ago, after finding that solid points simply pencilled through rabbits & squills (sometimes leading to a game loss), and HP's destroyed too much eating meat with a body shot - I switched exclusively to CCI SGB's for all my small game hunting, and have had complete satisfaction with both it's accuracy and terminal performance.

It worked so well, that I immediately invested in buying a 5,000 round supply - and still use them today.

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[mcwoodduck]

Anyone use paccos hollow point tool? It makes a lot bigger cavity in the nose of a 22 bullet.
How about cci small game bullet? It was flat nosed. Or do you find regular HP or stingers work good for hunting.

Opinions?

From my old neighbor the hollow point tool was to make more of wad cutter as a bullet and get crisp clean larger holes for target shooters.
As far as hunting with them.  I think it would work.
I used to shoot the hyper velocity stuff for hunting when I was younger (wow did I really say that, But I guess that was more than 25 years ago) and found that they really did a number on the tree rats.  Later when in College and coul not afford the $1 a box for the stingers but could afford the .50 a box for the target stuff,  I found ledd meat loss and they killed just as well.
I now hunt with what ever is handy ( and sighted in) in my 22 rifles.  Most often it is the Remington Bulk hollow point for pests and vermin in the yard.  But it has about a 3% failure rate of my rifle finding the hoilday spot in the rim where the primer did not make it.  I have found that Win is about the same.  Have not shot enough Fed to form any data.
But I have shot enough CCI stuff to say "I have never had a primer failure with any of the CCI stuff, From the stingers to the CB longs"  and if I were going hunting rather than knocking off pests in the back yard.  I would pick a CCI bullet.

[Drilling Man]

  I use Rem. Yellowjackets in all of my "working" 22 rifles.  The bullet design is an EXCELENT design that does a great job!

  DM

[badbear]

Winchester Dynapoints when they can be found. I discovered when they first came out, they did not destroy as much meat as a hollow point and did a better job than a solid round.

[dks7895]

I have found the Winchester bulk stuff works great.  Wally World sells them in a 333 or 555 pack.  They are a hollow point and rated at 1280fps.  They cycle well in all my guns, and are about as accurate as expected.  They kill tree rats just as dead as the expensive stuff.