Federal Spitfire .22 ammo - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum

Blue Chip · 05-13-2009, 04:00 AM

Anyone have any experience with it? I've been struggling a bit with the Spikes .22 AR conversion kit as of late. I have tuned the recoil spring in fairly well and polished the slide and the internals including the feed ramp. I suspect it will run the way it shoud now - but due to a recent mountain bike mishap - I haven't been out to the range to test it.

When I was manually feeding the Spitfires into the chamber - I noticed that several wouldn't drop in freely. Most did - however 1 out of 20 or so wouldn't... almost as if the case was bulged. I have saved the rounds that I had issues with from the range - and now am going through the others in the box to see what's up...

I thought these were decent rounds... now I'm thinking otherwise. Anyone have experience with them or any other plated .22 ammo that has worked well for you?

87manche · 05-13-2009, 06:39 AM

no experience with those

cci mini mags seems to be the ticket in my M60.
Good luck finding them.

Vortec_Cruiser · 05-13-2009, 05:13 PM

Put a caliper on them to see what the problem is - obviously too fat.

05-13-2009, 04:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
Blue Chip Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Member # 74720 Location: Orlando Flori-Duh Posts: 457	Federal Spitfire .22 ammo Anyone have any experience with it? I've been struggling a bit with the Spikes .22 AR conversion kit as of late. I have tuned the recoil spring in fairly well and polished the slide and the internals including the feed ramp. I suspect it will run the way it shoud now - but due to a recent mountain bike mishap - I haven't been out to the range to test it. When I was manually feeding the Spitfires into the chamber - I noticed that several wouldn't drop in freely. Most did - however 1 out of 20 or so wouldn't... almost as if the case was bulged. I have saved the rounds that I had issues with from the range - and now am going through the others in the box to see what's up... I thought these were decent rounds... now I'm thinking otherwise. Anyone have experience with them or any other plated .22 ammo that has worked well for you?

05-13-2009, 05:13 PM	#3 (permalink)
Vortec_Cruiser Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Member # 17300 Location: So. California Posts: 2,405	Put a caliper on them to see what the problem is - obviously too fat. __________________ Ed Gilbert 1977 FJ40, 5.7L Vortec F-Toy #F006 build in-progress [email]vorteccruiser@charter.net[/email]

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05-13-2009, 06:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
87manche Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Member # 86724 Posts: 4,647	no experience with those cci mini mags seems to be the ticket in my M60. Good luck finding them.