Best 22LR for a LCR 1.87"

[Doc Holliday 1950]

My wife finally bought a Ruger LCR 1.87" 22 LR Revolver 8 shot. In you opinion, what's the best defense ammo for her to use? I went on U Tube & everyone & their mom profess to be experts & it seems that they all have different answers. I went and Googled this question in various combos & of course got various answers. I'd really appreciate some advice from The Forum. I understand that speed decreases by 30-40% coming out of a short barrel, so the bullets don't expand very well.

 

[jmhyer]

I'd suggest CCI Velocitors.

 

[Carmady]

The fastest 40gr RN you can find.

 

[Water-Man]

CCI Velocitors work well for me.

 

[jonnyc]

I would vote Stingers or Mini-Mags, but any fast or heavy CCI should work.

 

[Viper225]

I carried CCI Velocitors in mine. They were hard to eject, but did not lock the cylinder up.

Bob

 

[Mobuck]

I tried Velocitors in a 2" revolver. Results were dismal. Noise was atrocious. Improvement over SV or even sub-sonic is likely marginal.
Try CCI sub-sonic HP or the segmented version. Performance of these rounds is quite good.

 

[Doc Holliday 1950]

Okay. Here's what happened with my wife's Ruger LCR 22lr. She shot every variation of CCI ammo plus Seller & Bellot 38 bar. 22lr & Aguila 22 interceptor 40 gr. & for her revolver, "CCI Velocitor" was absolutely the cleanest & best ammo with no misfires. The Aguila & S&B ammo was dirty & she had misfires. I just spent 1/2 hour cleaning her revolver. Glad my friends here & on another forum told me the each LCR reacted differently to different ammo.

 

[kenny53]

I don't think anything will expend out of the barrel that short. Just too much velocity lost out of short barrels. I think any 40 gr. will do the job. I have a LCR in 22 mag and shoot a verity of ballistic tip, hollow point, such out of it and realize that they work like a solid point. With practice I am able to dump all six of my rounds in a fist size group pulling the trigger as fast as I can at 5-7 yards. I figure that is good enough for social work. I think your wife will be able to do the same with her eight rounds.

 

[JERRYS.]

the fastest solid you can find, for me that is the Remington Viper.

 

[NAW]

Anything CCI will work great. Dont go out of your way to pay more money for hollow points. They wont expand comming out of short barrels like that. I have never had a bad primer with a CCI 22lr.

 

[NAW]

Anything CCI

 

[Obambulate]

CCI Small Game ammo.

 

[Schlitz 45]

+1 for Stingers

 

[Model12Win]

Stingers.

You want a nice fast hollow tip for disruption. Should make an ideal stopper as the .22 has a reputation for bouncing around inside the body after it hits. It is amazingly effective.

 

[jstert]

Best 22LR for a LCR 1.87"

ruger lcr 22lr is a nice little pistol. my favorite 22lr defense ammo for it is remington viper. at 10’ i can rapid shoot a fist sized group that fully penetrates 3” of telephone book. for a ruger sr22 i prefer cci stingers.


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