GMK copper 22 tap in you post code and see who is selling them nr you 21gr at stupid speeds
That's the same CCI stuff that is marketed in the US as the "MEATEATER" bullet, "
The ammunition that fills Steven Rinella's freezer"
Shopping for the Copper-22 - Learn more about the latest Copper-22 and other hunting or shooting gear at CCI.
www.cci-ammunition.com
$13 per 50. Seem to sell for £12 here, at a glance.
CCI Copper-22 .22lr Copper Hollow Point 21gr (50 Rounds) so near enough dollars for pounds.
For a review see
So, it is wildly inaccurate. Does not expand whatsoever (see the gelatine tests). Despite being made from copper dust it does not fragment at all in flesh, it is essentially a solid. Very noisy (hardly surprising, starts off at 1850 fps). The chap managed to show us one group at 50 yards that was into one inch (how many tries before he got that I wonder ?) But didn't even try at say 75 yards, and alluded to others seeing 12" at 100 yards. It's game over by then anyway as it's transitioning to subsonic. But he thought it good enough (minute of squirrel) for between 25 and 50 yards. Wooh hoo.
All in all an utterly pointless thing for UK conditions. So, that seems to currently be the state of the art in lead free .22LR. Not aware of any other attempt to make such a thing, and it's been on the market for at least four years. Unimpressed to put it mildly.
Now if US shooters were allowed silencers without having to pay the exorbitant fees and jump through hoops, I expect they would soon become very keen on subsonic .22 ammo and how well it can perform. Meanwhile they have little interest in it, which is understandable.
Compare and contrast the CCI copper thing, with say their better subsonic lead offering, 40 gr lead. $6 per 50.
Clean-22
Copper 21gr. Range yards, velocity fps and energy fpe.
(0, 1850, 160.) (50, 1486, 103.) (75, 1334, 83.) (100, 1205, 68.)
Lead subsonic 40gr.
(0, 1070, 101.) (50, 977, 85.) (75, 940, 78.) (100, 908, 73.)
So, there you have it. The noisy, hard, lightweight, none-expanding, twice as expensive, copper bullet has no real world energy advantage except at the muzzle, manages to lose 57fpe in just the first 50 yards, then continues to trail off rapidly. Whereas the (silent if silenced) twice as heavy, soft, lead subsonic is pretty much a match at 50 yards having only lost 26fpe from the muzzle, then continues to trundle along, losing far less energy, is equal at 75 yards, overtakes the copper at it's (unusable by all accounts) 100 yards, then will continue trundling along far beyond that, still retaining decent energy, and hopefully accuracy.
