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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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    Eley or Lapua?

    What distance? The very same distance the vast majority of Lapua Midas + and X-Act are used -- 50 yards. Both .22LR BR shooters and 3P shooters shoot 50 yards or meters and they use more of these ammos than shooters in other disciplines. It's hardly the case that ammo manufacturers don't...
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    Eley or Lapua?

    Can an ammo be "optimized" for a certain distance? If the relatively close distances where every ammo will perform well are disregarded, will ammo that performs well at, say, 50 yards/meters continue to perform well as distance increases? Is there something that can affect the way a bullet...
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    Eley or Lapua?

    Are there lots of Lapua that will shoot as well as the Eley? Of course there are such lots. The real question is: can they be found? This can only be answered by testing to find out first hand. Any shooter testing for long distance would be well advised to test at those distances. Why...
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    Temperature sensitivity

    Neither standard rifle match ammo (e.g. Lapua, Eley, RWS) nor biathlon ammo have lube on the cases. Any lube used specifically in case manufacture is washed off. All, however, have lube on the bullets.
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    Lapua Biathon Extreme

    It's not clear that Polar Xtreme remains in production. On the Lapua rimfire products webpage, Lapua notes the following: At current, Lapua offers the following .22lr rounds: X-Act, Midas+, Center-X, Polar Biathlon, Pistol OSP and Pistol King. See...
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    Temperature sensitivity

    A study on External Barrel Temperature and Precision was published online in 2013 and may be of interest to some readers. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944560/
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    CCI SV Bullet Length in Kestrel

    It's little wonder that ballistics calculators are not always able to explain or predict the behavior of .22LR ammo, even match ammo. Unlike jacketed bullets, soft lead .22LR bullets are not exactly uniform. The best lots, which will perform well at all distances, will have bullets that are...
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    Hotter ammo for “fast twist” barrels

    It's possible that a lot of viewers miss it because it intuitively sounds correct. Even the video maker thinks it is. The poorly informed claim is made in both versions of what's very much the same video. In the more recent version it's made arount the 12:30 minute mark. In the older one...
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    Hotter ammo for “fast twist” barrels

    Perhaps their .22LR videos should be viewed with caution. In them it's claimed that faster MV's are much better because faster .22LR bullets are less affected by wind drift than slower ones.
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    How good can you shoot CCI SV?

    This is fact. No rifle, whatever its make, can outshoot the ammo its given.
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    Practicing for long range - options when you are capped at 200 yards??

    If someone regularly shoots .5" to .75" ten-shot groups at 100 yards with a Ruger American Rimfire using Federal Automatch, the word to describe it would be incredible.
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    How good can you shoot CCI SV?

    Every inexpensive .22LR ammo can have random acts of accuracy. CCI SV is like that. Better ammos will shoot well more predictably.
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    22 Rimfire barre choices/recommendations

    Perhaps the OP stopped wondering what experiences others had some time after posting his question two-and-a-half years ago.
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