Federal Auto Match - 325 packs

[marlin39a]

Palmetto State Armory has been running good deals lately. $19.99 per 325 pack. Free shipping when you buy 5.

[Chill Wills]

I'm sure they have a good supply from back when they were selling them at $49.99 - sticking it to anyone who would buy. Sure, just smart business. That was their choice.
I support the retailers now who did not vastly over charge back then. This is my choice.

[Skunk1]

Local cabelas always had good price when they were scarce. Got that same deal before Christmas but only had to spend $49 for free ship. Daughter goes through enough I bought 5 boxes anyway.

[Shiloh]

Palmetto State Armory has been running good deals lately. $19.99 per 325 pack. Free shipping when you buy 5.

Good deal if you buy 5. Shipping charges would be significant.

Shiloh

[birddog]

I have 2 flats, $16.75/box on case quanity. Have another order in for 3 more flats as the grand son is getting and itchy finger.
Charlie

[GhostHawk]

Web site shows already sold out of those Federal Champions. Those are my ammunition of choice for feeding the pair of Ruger Mk III 22/45's my wife and I shoot.

Was at the range with her sunday, lots of smiles on faces, good memories.
Man that ol girl can shoot.

[rond]

I don't know why they call this match ammo as it varies greatly from shot to shot.

[shdwlkr]

Rond
Maybe that is why federal calls it match ammo as you try hard to match the first shot with all the others that fallow

[Springfield]

I know it works great in my Browning HP .22 conversion, and my sons Nylon 66. Still no better in person deals in my area, so I have been buying 5 of these every month or so to stock up. Pretty sure it isn't left over stock as it comes and goes, not always available. And maybe they were gouging before, don't remember it, but I do know that Cheaper then Dirt STILL doesn't have reasonable priced .22. And no one else who carries these has them for this price, so if they did I'll have to forgive them.

[bstone5]

I have purchased this ammo, with free shipping why not purchase the five boxes.
Made hollow points with the Niel Walts dies. Have sorted out by weight to try to improve groups.
My grand son will shoot a lot of these out of a bolt action gun I put together for him with a special barrel that has been laped with some taper in the bore.
Good price with the free shipping.

[OptimusPanda]

I have a whole bunch of this stuff and it shoots just fine. Just not really any better than other bulk 22. Frankly, I'd prefer the 525 round box of plated federal 22 I used to be able to find.

[308Jeff]

Wish I could get my hands on some more CCI Blazer. That stuff shoots great in every .22 I own.

[Chill Wills]

I know it works great in my Browning HP .22 conversion, and my sons Nylon 66. Still no better in person deals in my area, so I have been buying 5 of these every month or so to stock up. Pretty sure it isn't left over stock as it comes and goes, not always available. And maybe they were gouging before, don't remember it, but I do know that Cheaper then Dirt STILL doesn't have reasonable priced .22. And no one else who carries these has them for this price, so if they did I'll have to forgive them.

I am with you 100%. You are taking care of your needs at a good price.

Because I can get then local for about this price and I have a strong supply in hand, I don't order and remember their scalping us and don't support them.

IF, on the other hand I was not flush with Auto Match and saw this deal, I would be ordering from them too.

[GhostHawk]

Bud's seems to have this in quantity at 7 cents a round. 21.99 per box of 325, 3 boxes is just 21 rounds short of a thousand.

Wife said today that she wanted us to stock up some more. Think she forgot how much she enjoys shooting that Ruger Mk III with the Red Dot.

I have 6 in the cart, will order when she gets paid thurs night. That will last us for a few months.

[WJP]

Accurate and reliable but leads my guns worse than any other I've shot.

[marlin39a]

Palmetto has Federal Auto Match, 325 pack, on sale today. $19.99 each. Buy 5 and get free shipping!

[dragon813gt]

They're $18.47 a box at Dick's Sporting Goods. With tax it came out to $0.06 a round. Not happy about the price but it will keep the step daughter shooting for a month or so. Depends on if I let her use the GSG 1911.

[Ickisrulz]

Accurate and reliable but leads my guns worse than any other I've shot.

These will not eject from my 10/22. They are great in everything else I have and the 10/22 ejects the other ammo I have on hand.

[marlin39a]

I use it in my 2206, 2213, 2214. Works reliably. At 6 cents a round, this is good stuff.

[dragon813gt]

I use it in my 2206, 2213, 2214. Works reliably. At 6 cents a round, this is good stuff.

Meh, it's over priced for what it is. I can't use it in a bunch of my 22s. But it will suffice for now. IMO it's over priced bulk fodder. But then again so were the golden bullets that were priced at $40 a brick.

[WJP]

My apologies. I was reading 308 Jeff post when I responded. The CCI blazers are what I was referring to but forgot to hit the quote tab.

[dale2242]

I was at the Outdoor show in Medford Oregon yesterday.
There was a pallet of Federal Auto Match at the Bi Mart booth.
$18 for a 325 pack.....dale

[Shepherd2]

I was in Wall Mart yesterday and they had the 325 packs for $17.47. That's the cheapest I've seen 22 LRs anywhere. I always check WM for .22s when I go there and the last couple months they've had some in the case. Usually CCIs.

[zubrato]

Seen it for 19 bucks, while my MKIII eats it up( sometimes barely), it can be weak and inconsistent. Some rounds are so weak they might as well be colibris. I shot at a big steel drum about 100 yards away in the winter, found 1-2 perfectly undisturbed bullets gently resting on top of the snow that didnt even break the surface. Must have been the two stovepipes out of maybe 5 mags I shot. wont reliably cycle my marlin 60 for this reason, stovepipes like mad and jams it up like the dickens.
"match" ammo it is not. its barely decent bulk ammo.

[TCLouis]

19 bucks and change at Wally World in Spring Hill last week.

Match sould not be anywhere on the box. Last I tried was far from it.

Waiting to see if the new batches of Aguila SE can match what I have in my 22 LR stash for precision on paper.

[bobthenailer]

$ 17.47 a box of 325 at WM Tue and Wed picked up 3 boxes each day ,

[Love Life]

It shoots just as poorly as the federal premium gold medal target ammo.

[Elkins45]

The word "match," like the words "custom" and "literally" essentially has no real meaning anymore.

[Bmi48219]

I picked up several boxes 6 months ago at Bass Pro, $17.50 each & I had a $10 off a $30 dollar purchase. A LOT of FTFs in my 2206, like one out of 15 shots. One out of 25 In Officers Madel Match. Retried the FTFs & got half of them to shoot the 2nd try. Tired the rest a 3rd time, no luck. I emailed Federal and sent them some of the bad ones. They said my firing pins were'nt hitting hard / deep enough to ignite primer compound but did hit hard enough to crumble it in the rim???
Funny that my firing pins hit hard enough to fire CCI & Remington ammo consistently & group better too.

[Love Life]

Using a Remington 40X bench rifle and a savage Mark II heavy barrel, Federal auto match and Federal premium gold medal target both shoot the worst out of several brands I have tested. RWS sport and Eley sport have been great for practice, CCI Mini mags shoot just as well as the RWS and Eley sport. Bulk federal champion, comes just behind the mini mags. Remington match is just a tad better than the Federal AM and GMT ammo, and could be better if quality control was better.

In the Remington match ammo, there are several out of every 50 where the heel of the bullet was seated on the case mouth and over hangs. Total garbage.

RWS 50 and RWS 100 are both the best in my rifles for shooting itty bitty groups in hopes of winning a match, lol.

[WILCO]

$ 17.47 a box of 325 at WM Tue and Wed picked up 3 boxes each day ,

Good price. I'm happy with the product. Will buy more.

[tazman]

I have 3 22 rimfire bolt rifles and 3 22 autoloading pistols and the Federal Auto Match shoots as well as any ammunition I have tried in them with the exception of the really high end match stuff. I have had no issues with failures to fire or eject in any of them.

[Chill Wills]

The word "match," like the words "custom" and "literally" essentially has no real meaning anymore.

:p

Yup!
They mean as much as a politician's promise.

For the price the Auto match, as in match up with an semi-auto action pistol or rifle, have a place in my ammo cupboard. They are good enough for certain things.
Unless my info is only gossip, Lots (as in numbered lot) of auto match are the culls of a better match grade ammo in the federal line up.
Too bad Federal is not the same old Federal we used to get ammo from.
How could you top the old 900 line and the old dimpled Olympic "Ultra-match"?

[GhostHawk]

I am just thankful for all of you guys who keep jumping in and suggesting that people try something else. That this is not "match" ammo.

I agree, I don't think it is, and I am not paying for "match" ammo.

What I do think it is, well I would rather not say.

So you guys please carry on with the discouraging. If it leaves one more box for me on a shelf some day, that is reason enough to leave you be.

Thanks.

PS my Ruger 10/22 is doing just fine with the cheap armscor and blazer ammo.
I save all the Federal for my Ruger Mk III's 22/45's, his and hers. Both shoot this stuff like it IS match ammo. Ok so they believe the box. I don't care. What I care about is that on a good day I can put 10 into a nice tight smaller than 1" group at 20 feet. And this ammo does that with boring regularity. But I like boring sometimes.

[Love Life]

What the box says, and what the targets say at 50 yards and 100 yards are two different things. Now, I'm quite sure that there is somebody out there with crickett rifle who shoots .000001 inch 10 shot groups at 100 yards with the stuff...using iron sights, but I haven't met them yet.

Maybe federal means the action shooting type of matches when they refer to "Match", lol.

[Maven]

I purchased 6 cartons of it over the last 6 mo's. because the price was almost reasonable and it was available, if not plentiful. Yesterday I tried it (160 rounds) for the 1st time in my Ruger Mk. II Gov't. (6 7/8" bbl., open sights) in an indoor range here in FL. While it isn't match ammo, and who would think it is at ~$20/carton, it performed rather well in my gun at ranges between 10- and 25 yd., both offhand and rested. By "well" I mean no failures to feed or fire, no stovepipe jams (which I did get with Norma match ammo/same gun last week, btw), and VG accuracy. How it would perform in my rifle, however, is unknown at this time. My takeaway from reading some of the above comments is that perhaps Federal's QC could be improved, but more significantly, .22cal. arms have huge differences in bbl. & chamber dimensions, and thus quite different preferences in what they will shoot accurately.

P.S. The Norma match ammo was much more accurate than the FAM, but then it was bigly more expensive too.

[Traffer]

A place called Dunhams in Wisconsin has Federal target 325 for $17.99 on the shelf.

[GhostHawk]

Maven well said sir, totally agree.

[Maven]

Thank you, GH!

[Maven]

Just got back from the same indoor range where I fired 50 Fed Match Auto v. 50 Norma Match .22 USA @ 15 yd. with the same Ruger Mk. II Gov't. pistol rested on the bench top (with the gun rug as padding) as in post #36. By and large the amount of dispersion was slightly greater with the FMA v. the Norma ammo, but that the only difference I could see. In short, the FMA's are an excellent value for the money, at least in my pistol. I'm guessing they'll perform admirably in my Marlin HB .22 rifle as well.

[turtlezx]

try the comparision @ 100 yds and see what happens

[375RUGER]

I don't know why they call this match ammo as it varies greatly from shot to shot.
How true!
I have a buddy with a Browning SA22. It consumes the bulk pack ammo and makes an honest one ragged hole group with the whole magazine full, at a good 25-30 yds out. Once in while you find a gun that ain't picky.

[Maven]

Not possible as the indoor range is only 25 yd. Moreover, when I compete in my club's bench rest matches, it's only 50 yd.
Although you may not agree turtlezx, 50 shots bench rested @ 50 yd. will clearly separate the wheat from the chaff re .22 ammo. When I return home and have access to my .22 match rifle and a 50 yd. range, I intend to do just that.

[GhostHawk]

I make no claims for it to be 100 yard MOA ammo.

The only claim I make is that my pair of Ruger Mk III 22/45's like it. Very few problems of any kind with it at all. And at 20 feet they easily group smaller than a pop bottle top if the shooter can hold it.

Beyond that I claim nothing.

When I start seeing sticky extraction I put the pistol up and when it gets home it gets cleaned. And it seems to be good for a year or so before I have to worry about doing it again. I have yet to see any reasonably priced .22lr ammo that will not eventually cause enough gunk to accumulate to the point that the gun needs cleaning. Cheap stuff will cause it to happen faster. I did run 100 rounds of old cheap **** ammo through the one Mk III when I broke it in. And both magazines used for that had to be stripped, cleaned, oiled, and reassembled. They got sticky, started causing failure to feed issues. Cleaned, oiled and reassembled they are like new. Some maintance is always going to be required.

You get what you pay for mostly. Some better, some worse. If it does not work for you, use something else. YMMV, for me it works.

[l h jenkins]

I have a whole bunch of this stuff and it shoots just fine. Just not really any better than other bulk 22. Frankly, I'd prefer the 525 round box of plated federal 22 I used to be able to find.
I agree. I am down to my last four boxes, purchased at wally world, on sale 8.87 a box.

[trapper9260]

I seen today at a farm fleet store that had some of these 22lr. And to the shark that Walmart of the one I go to once in awhile had some Rem 22lr 525 and some CCI 22lr . It is the first time in a long time I seen them had them and the Rems was going about $29.95 and the CCI for 50 went about $3.?? .Not bad for a start.Hope they drop the price more.I did not get any of it because I am good to go for now.

[fecmech]

My experience with the Auto Match is acceptable for bulk .22 ammo. Benched at 50 yds out of my Henry 16" carbine with Weaver K2.5 scope, 10 shot groups are 1-1 1/4". This gun will consistently due 3/4-7/8" with good std velocity ammo. I have a S&W Model 34 (22/32 Kit gun)revolver with a dot sight on it that with good ammo is a 2" 50 yd gun. With the Automatch it's 2-3" at 50 yds and benched I can hit my 3" 50 yd swinger every time. Target ammo it isn't but it is decent plinking ammo IMO.

[dale2242]

Dang it.
I don`t really need it, but now I am going to have to buy some just to see how well my guns like it....dale