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    New Lapua Long Range and Super Long Range (Announced)

    Only 50 cents per round for the kind of .22LR ammo that averages 1.5" (0.5 MOA) at 300 yards? For many shooters it can be a tall order to average 0.5 MOA (1/4") five shot groups at 50 yards. At 300 yards where 0.5 MOA results are vastly more difficult, most serious shooters would pay much, much...
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    Anyone heard anything on the new Lapua .22 offerings?

    A boattail bullet for .22LR seems unlikely. Match .22LR bullets (as well as those of most if not all .22LR HV and other SV ammo) is a heeled bullet with a cavity or hollow base. In Rifleman's Guide to Rimfire Ammunition, Steven Boelter explains that the hollow base "helps seal the bullet to...
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    Anyone heard anything on the new Lapua .22 offerings?

    When it comes to similar ballistics, according to their respective ballistics charts the specs for SK Magazine (a lesser grade than SK Standard Plus) has the same ballistics as Lapua X-Act, perhaps the most expensive .22LR match ammo available. Beyond superficial appearances, that's where the...
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    Anyone heard anything on the new Lapua .22 offerings?

    It's neither. There is absolutely no reason to believe that in terms of performance characteristics -- MV variation among them -- it can or will be any superior to existing grades of Lapua. As a Lapua-branded ammo, it's loaded on the Lapua production line, and so is not rebranded SK.
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    New Lapua Long Range and Super Long Range (Announced)

    The loading machines experience ongoing parts replacement and readjustment. Each time that occurs, tolerances must be reeestablished. This, as well as the use of different lots of components -- e.g. casings, bullets, priming compound, propellant -- calls for new lot numbers for the rounds...
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    New Lapua Long Range and Super Long Range (Announced)

    SK products are made on one production line, Lapua on another.
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    New Lapua Long Range and Super Long Range (Announced)

    Based on what's said in the video, CP asks a very good question. The Capstone representative in the video is Emil Praslick, who is described online as a Capstone Precision Group's Business Development Manager. He is a former coach of the US Army Marksmanship Unit and USA National long range...
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    New Lapua Long Range and Super Long Range (Announced)

    The claim for improved performance in the wind is not easy to understand. Lapua says the ballistic coefficient is the same (0.172) as that for all other Lapua and SK .22LR ammo. According to Lapua's ballistic chart, in a 13 fps (8.86 mph) crosswind, wind drift at 100 yards is only 3 inches...
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    Eley Contact ammo

    How can the same .22LR ammo shoot to average the same MOA at 50 yards and at 200? Accuracy performance with .22LR is non-linear.
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    MTM wind reader flags

    Indolence is alive and well. Better not get flags if they must remain on the range indefinitely. Much less expensive to use and eventually lose surveyor's tape on a stick.
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    Bergara b14r first round flyer

    Sounds like every shot was a flyer. You haven't indicated under what conditions the flyers occur. Regarding a damnable (accursed) package of a new barrel for 1200, there's no guarantee that it will shoot well, is there?
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    Bergara b14r first round flyer

    Are you getting the flyer from both a clean bore? Does it happen with a bore that's freshly fouled by previous shots? If it happens when the bore is clean and unfouled, that's not unusual. If it happens after the bore has had rounds go through and allowed to sit for a time, that's not unusual...
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    Looking for your experiance with an ATS tuner for rimfire.

    This is a good observation. At 50 yards, two .22LR SV rounds with an MV difference of 50 fps would have about .35" of vertical dispersion between them. Tuners can't make those rounds shoot to the same POI.
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    A little lesson about ammo is your wondering

    What kind of ammo is it? It would be a shame to have to lose top tier ammo to practice only. According to the venerable Lones Wigger, high temperatures were the main cause for a temperature related loss of accuracy. Don't worry about how cold the wind chill was because wind chill doesn't...
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    EC V2 tuner range day

    It would seem that the Cortina tuners are quite something. If they can make lot testing a thing of the past and make any lot of ammo shoot well, they have struck gold. No more lot testing on your own or at testing centers. BR shooters and others will be relieved to know that those lots of...
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    Shilen ratchet barrel - SLOW...?

    The truth is often what we make it to be. Barrel length is only one possible factor in ammo speed. Two .22LR barrels that are the same length and from the same manufacturer don't necessarily give the same MV with the same ammo. One could be faster/slower than the other. Bore characteristics...
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    Squeeze Bore

    CZ doesn't make it's bores any tighter than most other European firearms makers. Like most other European manufacturers, CZ makes its firearms to CIP specs. It's bores are no tighter than allowed by CIP. Many North American made .22LR have more generous bore dimensions because they follow...
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    Handicapping Myself With 7X Scope?

    The handicap is the inconsistency of the ammo itself. Unlike .22LR, there is no .17HMR match ammo. With good match ammo, sub-MOA results will be more common with .22LR than with .17HMR -- even if shooting 5 round groups with .22LR, while the 17HMR shoots 3 rounders.
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    Eley or Lapua?

    Landy, Thanks for the explanation. It confirms what I believed but did not know for a fact. I don't think much about BC as it doesn't change what I do with the ammo I use at the distances I shoot.
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    Eley or Lapua?

    I just saw your question as I was posting. I don't know the answer as it's above my pay grade. Someone who may know is Landy (poster HuskerP7M8). His posts over the years have informed and illuminated the issue of center of balance problem of .22LR ammo.
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