Bad .22 ammo - what's good?

[mjbskwim]

Some 22s can be finicky.I have shot some and got a 6 in pattern.
And have shot some that I use my 45 hole to shoot through

You have to buy the small boxes and see what shoots best in your 22

 

[chemist]

I have been shooting the Federal Automatch for years. I have run it through anything I could, with good results in 90+% of them. The last 2 cases have produced maybe a dozen that failed to fire in weapons in good repair without a second strike. I run a snake down the bore every few hundred rounds, and clean thoroughly after every range session. It is clean enough for me and there is no nasty Eley stink.

Yeah, the guys on the rimfire forum seem to all like Fed Automatch. It's not Eley, but's it's reasonably priced.