Federal Automatch...???

[Nvidkiller]

have you upgraded the extractor? makes the worlds difference .

Extractor is factory. However, it shoots everything else just fine.

[Dutch3]

My Savage 64 chokes on it. Won't function at all. And this gun runs most cheap .22 with no problem.

[mach]

Go CCI and never look back. That being said I need to get rid of my exsiting non CCI ammo to buy more CCI...lol

[champu]

I’ve shot several boxes of the 325 round federal auto match and never had a problem in any gun, but the last I bought it was a few years ago. Since then I’ve been using the Fiocchi 40 grn 525 round white boxes that come three in an ammo can, Federal 36 grn 525 round boxes, and Aguila 40 grn 500 round high velocity (red stripe box) and all of those have worked very well.

I did 30 round chronograph strings of the Federal (525 round box) and Aguila with a 16” tacsol AR-LT barrel a couple months ago and they were 1257 fps (sd 23.4) and 1174 fps (sd 17.5) respectively. It might be a couple weeks before I get to the range again, but I might pick up a box or two of automatch and chronograph it and the Fiocchi.

[Bainter1212]

My wife's 10/22 will tolerate around 100 rounds of Automatch before it starts stovepiping.
When I take the gun apart, it is filthy. Clean it, and I can do another 100 rds.

I KNOW it is the ammo, because when it starts to fail, I can switch to CCI Minimags and the thing runs fine, with or without cleaning.

My other 22s don't seem to care, although the Automatch does filth those guns up pretty bad as well.

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[TMB 1]

My Ruger 10/22s, MkII and Standard does fine with Auto Match. Daughters Marlin 60 does fine with it too.

[Mutant]

Eeh!

[Wordupmybrotha]

Nope, works fine for me.

[Jimi Jah]

Same here. Seems to cycle well in AR-22's. Usually all day without issues.

[lordmorgul]

Runs my GSG 1911 beautifully.

[elk hunter]

Never had a problem with Auto Match in any of my .22's. Marlin Mod 60 ran like a top on it, Ruger 10/22, Ruger pistols, all bolt guns and even the Sig Mosquito ran perfect on it. The Sig is "very" finicky about ammo and the Auto Match was the only one that ran 100% every time in it. My case + some is over 7 years old and stored in the garage.

[steelholder]

My 10/22 does not like those.

[Jimi Jah]

I have a lot of that stuff stored up here. I just got a Henry Golden Boy. I hope it works good in that.

[LT1Silverhawk]

Was shooting this stuff out of my Marlin 60. After 150 rounds without a problem, I opened a new box and it became a jam-o-matic. It seems that the rounds were underpowered and failed to fully cycle the action. Threw some ****ty Thunderbolts in it and it was fine.

Anyone else seen drastic differences between lots of Automatch?

Hey OP,

I had the exact symptoms you are describing with my Marlin 795. It was shooting the Automatch perfectly fine for the longest time. And then one day it did not like them at all.

I thought I had a crappy, under-charged batch of ammo. I had to work the action manually to load the next round.

In my rifle's case, the issue turned out to be that it needed a cleaning. Once I cleaned the entire action thoroughly (and replaced some springs and other items), its been perfectly fine with that ammo. I'm pretty sure the upgrades themselves didn't necessarily affect the Automatch's reliability in my rifle.