What ammo ?

[BACKTOSHOOTING]

So i'm new to the pistol thing and bought a Kmber Custom TLE2 in SS and and today i bought a Kimber conversion kit for it and have been looking at bulk ammo and have some questions about what I should shoot thru it.

They come in different grains, lead bullets, copper plated, round nose and hollow points and have no idea what I need.

It will be for plinking and target practise only - No hunting with it.

Obveiously price is a factor but I also dont want to damage the barrel by shooting lead thats not plated.

I know that todays firearms are built to shoot lead but will they build up on the barrel more and faster and just require more cleaning or not ?

Help me out here and get me on the right road,

Thanks

[Chaos47]

Buy as many different little 50 packs you can, test them and see what fires reliable and which is accurate. Then decide which has the best compromise of both and go from there.

I don't have a Kimber but I personally love Blazer CCI Value 525 packs as they shoot great out of my guns

[p7m8jg]

Good advice. My Colt Ace conversion kit shoots about everything, but only some of it very well.....

It depends on the components: lot by lot, brick to brick, whatever the mfg is using in the shell at the time.

[Chaos47]

Good advice. My Colt Ace conversion kit shoots about everything, but only some of it very well.....

It depends on the components: lot by lot, brick to brick, whatever the mfg is using in the shell at the time.

True, I had one brick that was hyper accurate, with no fliers. Next brick I bought of the same brand the next time was still good but was no where near as good.

I've heard of people buying boxes of ammo and testing them out and then going back and buying more of that lot if it was good

[Cheap Shot]

All good advice but...

I would add that until broken in (a couple 100 to a thousand rounds) the gun won't be telling you the truth about which ones it really likes. For semi-auto stick with the higher velocity to break in and then try a little box of each to see what it likes best.

[BACKTOSHOOTING]

All good points that i havent thought about, But what about plated vs bare lead ?

[Chaos47]

Bare lead is actually "Wax Coated"

The top match ammo is wax coated stuff like eley that they use in the Olympics.
Personally I trust wax way more then plated.

[sofbak]

i have three pistols I run rimfire kits on; sig p220, springfield 1911, and cz sp01. All of them seem to prefer 40 gr round nose ammo with a muzzle velocity of 1200 to 1255 fps.

I tried running winchester bulk with 36 gr hp bullet and 1250 fps, and only the sig will run it-and it took about 400 rnds of "break-in" before it would do that. But they all run the heavy round nose reliably. CCI mini-mag, remington 22 high velocity, and aguila super extra all seem to work very well.

Wax vs. plated doesn't seem to be an issue. Not much lead build up with any of them, and most rimfires don't like to be cleaned as often as centerfires. I have older .22 revos, and a newer pair of rifles, and the owners manuals all say the same thing-"Don't clean the barrel until accuracy takes a noticable dip."

For starters, I would suggest the mini-mags since they seem to feed reliably in all my rimfire kits. Run several hundred through it just to break it in, and then start the sampling....

[BACKTOSHOOTING]

See how much you can learn just by asking didnt know any of this and makes the learning curve much easyer, Thanks for the help

[glockman19]

CCI Blazer or CCI Mini-mags...in 40 grain.