Care and Feeding of the Kadet?

[davekoch]

             What's the most problematic 22LR in the Kadet?
           
             Are there any brands that seem to work best?

[Unregistered(d)]

Hello.  I have had good luck in terms of reliability and decent accuracy with most every standard velocity round I've tried with the Kadet.  Surprisingly, my unit malfunctions with some high velocity rounds, especially the light, but fast QuickShoks.  I shoot mainly Remington Subsonic in mine as I have a ton of it.
           
            Best.

[mapdude]

The Kadet's hat Winchester Xpert because they are so poorly lubed.  Some low velocity stuff doesn't work well.  Never had a problem with hypervelocity.  The problems come from poor batches of primers.  Some lots of Federal Lightning work great, others light strike every mag.  I would say CCI has great primers and work great.  Aguila and Winchester Super X are other great choices.  Mapdude
           
           
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[davekoch]

That's interesting that subsonics work better than the hypervelocity rounds, Steve. I would have expected results like Mapdudes.
           
             I guess I'll just have to try a bunch of different brands in mine. It gives me a good excuse to buy anything cheap or on sale!    
           
             
           

[Shanes5968]

I was at the range today and ran my second 250 count box of Remington 22 LR High Velocity through my Kadet conversion.  So far iv'e experienced only 1 misfire.  The round did fire though on the second pull of the trigger.  In the first 500 rounds of the Remington High Velocity I've also had zero feed problems and zero ejection problems.  For $4.75 per 250 round box at Kmart it can't be beat.  Not as noisy or fun as shooting the 40 S & W ammo but a whole ot cheaper for sure.

[davekoch]

$4.74 for 250rds isn't bad. I found Wally World has Remmington "Golden Bullet" High Velocity HPs bulk packed at $8.75 for 550rds.
           
             I've gone through two boxes of it already and it's proven to be pretty good ammo in my Kadet. It's very accurate. However, I did get about 4 bad rounds. They misfired, I ejected, rotated to strike a different spot and they just went click. There were very deep strikes on the rim, it's almost like they had no primer. But hey, 4 out of 1100 isn't bad. It's plinking ammo, not for self defense.
           

[mapdude]

You've gota watch that Remington Bulk Hollow Point ammo.  I had one batch that was 30% bent from the factory. The bullets were actually crimped at an angle.  Another batch had about 20% without priming mix.  I pulled the bullets from some duds and sure enough powder but no primer.  Remington has lousy quality control and althought their regular ammo is usually fine, look out for their cheap promotional ammo.  Lots of it is junk that should have been scrapped.  mapdude.

[davekoch]

Thanks for the "heads up". I'll keep an eye out for the bad crimps when I load the mags.
           
            I don't mind the duds too much in practice ammo for the price. Clearing them is practice in itself.

[davekoch]

[Bompa]

No Kadets in use at my club but just about everything else,I
            have a Ciener kit on a 1911..The thing is everybody,almost,
            uses the Federal bulk pack 22 lr from Wal-Mart..Very few,almost none, duds and it functions and shoots well..
            Try it you might like it..

[Walt-Sherrill]

RE: Remington Bulk ammo
           
            It was explained to me that in the quality control process, the stuff that checks out very well goes into the top line of ammo, while the stuff that is less good -- but arguably still serviceable -- goes into the bulk packs.  From what I've seen, that makes sense.   Sometimes you DO get what you pay for, and when you pay less you get less...
           
            My Kadet Adapter, as someone else noted, doesn't seem to like Winchester Xpert, either.
           

[jhooten]

Took mine to the range for the first time today.  I had a mixed bag of CCI blazer, and walmart promo Federal and Remington.  It had one FTFeed when on of the other guys was shooting.  I forgot to look at the firing pin strike to see what shape it was.  Anyway the accuracy was better that I would have expected using three types of ammo mixed in the mag.  Next week I will take for Stingers or Minimags and see how they do, along with some "target" ammo.  I think I need more mags 'cuz i'm going to be shooting it alot.