I've had my Phoenix HP22a for a bit over 24 hours now so I can't exactly call myself a subject matter expert BUT during my initial range trials I used Remington Target (std vel)40gr LRN and Blazer (no velocity values on pkg) 40gr LRN bullets. I experienced no FTFs, no mis-fires and no FTEs. I'm going to try and follow the mfgr's recommendation to use standard velocity. Is there a reason that the standard velocity ammo generally cost more than the high velocity stuff? TG