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So, my club has now banned HV and anything jacketed (or rather, the club we rent the range from has!)

The 15-22's as far as I know were designed to use HV ammo. Has anybody had much success with using subsonic? I like to shoot jacketed ammo, as it doesn't gunk up as quickly. Any thoughts on cleaning interval using plain ol' dirty lead rounds in my baby?

Used a few subsonics through mine but mainly just plain old lead, not seen any signs of extra fouling from the lead, it runs 100% no matter what I put through it
As for cleaning, a bore snake after every outing followed by Montanna X-Treme bore conditioner if they are going to be standing unused for more than a few days.

CCI make a sub that quite a few guys at my club use. Best bet is buy a selection of sub ammo and see what works. Depending on how many rounds you've got through it, the 15-22 is supposed to run almost anything.

Cleaning wise I subscribe to the same theory as almost everyone else at my club when it comes to .22 semi's; only clean it when it stops working .

Rob's been running subs and standards through his with no issues at all, to make the most of his moderator. I've shoved several boxes of standards through mine whilst waiting for the HV stuff to come back in stock. Again, no issues.

Cleaning? When it stops working, but that could be a couple of thousand!!

techguy wrote:So, my club has now banned HV and anything jacketed (or rather, the club we rent the range from has!)

The 15-22's as far as I know were designed to use HV ammo. Has anybody had much success with using subsonic? I like to shoot jacketed ammo, as it doesn't gunk up as quickly. Any thoughts on cleaning interval using plain ol' dirty lead rounds in my baby?

Our 15/22's just run on subs and we have in our club been running rounds with about 1050-1100fps power no problem for the last few months while we waited for the mini mags to finally get delivered, RWS have just got us to try their new semi-auto ammo that runs at about 1080fps and that fires ok (i reckon it's just their normal Target ammo in a new box, very greasy) compared to mini mags which are 1235fps. I find the mini mag is much cleaner burning than other makes so less cleaning involved. We had some Aguillia SE last week and that's horrible dirty ammo, needed a full strip and clean of bolt and trigger after about 300 rounds and very inconsistent powder weights, you can hear the large variations in rapport when firing and very smokey, thank god mini mags are now back in the country.

Thanks for all the info chaps, very useful as always :)

Liked all the subs I put through mine except Remington 38gr HP, which it wouldn't cycle.

I havn't found anything that my 15-22 performance centre won't cycle (just you watch now I've said that )

What are these 'jacketed' .22LR rounds you speak of? CCI MiniMag are copper washed not jacketed. The velocity difference between subs, standard and high velocity is not actually that much there might be some misinterpretation here, do they shoot centre fire gallery rifle calibres or is it juy a rimfire range.

I subsequently realised that CCI Minimags are copper washed, not jacketed.... but they are still HV...so still not allowed..but well worth pointing out!

The range is rimfire only...