What is your opinion of CCI pistol match? I’m using a Ruger charger 22 with a 10 inch barrel. it’s expensive but it seems to shoot so more consistent than anything else I’ve tried. Anything cheaper and comparable in accuracy and reliability? Thanks for any input.
CCI pistol match
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CCi is not know for being the most consistent, That said every rimfire is unique in it's preferences. If it works for you then shoot it. Only other suggestion is to try the SK and Wolf brands, their match stuff is pretty good
Sadly, it's not about label preferences.
Nor is it about brand preference either.
Such thinking indicates a lack of understanding
of the process of manufacturing rimfire ammunition.
Facts to remember:
No rifle can fix poorly made ammunition.
No ammunition can fix a poorly made rifle.
No two rimfire cartridges are identical.
Components, chemistry, quantities, tolerances
vary moment by moment on the assembly line.
Some days at the factory are better than others.
What rifles "like" are uniformly well made cartridges
with consistently similar muzzle velocities.
Any variations in quality, velocity, result in trajectory differences.
If you believe all cartridges are identical as they roll off the assembly line,
well, then, I suppose brand preference is a plausible explantion of results.
When you understand that variations in components/assembly occur
then rifle preference by label is no longer a viable explanation.
You now have to look at cartridge quality as the cause of accuracy problems.
CCI is not in the business of manufacturing benchrest cartridges.
All it's 22lr roll out of the same machines, run by the same technicians,
using processes established in the last century.
That includes priming application by punch plate and squeegee.
Watch the factory tour videos.
Dropping, dumping, tumbling in drums are not how match bullets are handled.
CCI manufactures sport shooting cartridges.
Short range, off hand they do the job.
For punching center at 50 yards off the bench,
there are better options.
CCI Pistol Match, Green Tag show the same results as CCI SV
from my Lilja, and Shilen barreled, CZ's.
Chrony numbers show the same problems with velocity spread
and visual inspection of the cartridges show the same indications
of rough handling on the assembly line.
It appears we are paying extra for packaging and label differences.
Nor is it about brand preference either.
Such thinking indicates a lack of understanding
of the process of manufacturing rimfire ammunition.
Facts to remember:
No rifle can fix poorly made ammunition.
No ammunition can fix a poorly made rifle.
No two rimfire cartridges are identical.
Components, chemistry, quantities, tolerances
vary moment by moment on the assembly line.
Some days at the factory are better than others.
What rifles "like" are uniformly well made cartridges
with consistently similar muzzle velocities.
Any variations in quality, velocity, result in trajectory differences.
If you believe all cartridges are identical as they roll off the assembly line,
well, then, I suppose brand preference is a plausible explantion of results.
When you understand that variations in components/assembly occur
then rifle preference by label is no longer a viable explanation.
You now have to look at cartridge quality as the cause of accuracy problems.
CCI is not in the business of manufacturing benchrest cartridges.
All it's 22lr roll out of the same machines, run by the same technicians,
using processes established in the last century.
That includes priming application by punch plate and squeegee.
Watch the factory tour videos.
Dropping, dumping, tumbling in drums are not how match bullets are handled.
CCI manufactures sport shooting cartridges.
Short range, off hand they do the job.
For punching center at 50 yards off the bench,
there are better options.
CCI Pistol Match, Green Tag show the same results as CCI SV
from my Lilja, and Shilen barreled, CZ's.
Chrony numbers show the same problems with velocity spread
and visual inspection of the cartridges show the same indications
of rough handling on the assembly line.
It appears we are paying extra for packaging and label differences.
I wish you fellows would not use the term “Last Century.” It makes me feel so darned old. I remember when CCI rimfire first came on the market and had been shooting rimfire riles and handguns for many years before. And when someone says, “Last Century,” I always think of 1800 to 1899.
Seen those videos and it is well documented that the rounds, be it CCI, SuperX, Lapua, SK or Eley, come off the same line at their respective factories then tested and assign a grading. However, I’ve seen some pretty good matches shot with SK Standard + (as in second place out of forty-three shooters) so one never knows,
Yep it is all about finding the right ammo for YOUR firearm. Moving up in price just buys a relative increase in consistency to certain standard. I had a Case of SK rifle match that shot every bit as good as my Midas, next case was nowhere near as good.
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