by noylj on Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:02 pm
Whoever told you that is so full of s***, they aren't worth listening too about anything else.
ALL GUNS ARE DIFFERENT. ALL BARRELS ARE DIFFERENT. WHAT BULLET MANUFACTURER, STYLE, AND WEIGHT ONE GUN LIKES MEANS ALMOST NOTHING WITH RESPECT TO ANOTHER GUN.
You can't even say that a 1:9 rifling in .223 will perform best with 50-60 grain bullets. You just don't know what your gun will like without testing it.
I have NEVER found any of my .22 to have a preference for one bullet weight, but they sure show a preference as far as what lot of ammunition they like.
I have one .22 that loves some old cheap greasy Yugoslavian ammo I bought several decades ago and doesn't care for the expensive stuff at all. One chokes on copper-flash bullets (and I have no idea why).
I think you can check magazine articles on .22s and you will find that all the articles come to same conclusions--the only way to tell is to shoot 'em.