anybody had any comparisons in the same gun? just wondering if the match shows up better up to 100yd. cost dif isn't big but just wondering if there is any advantage to getting some match. and,has it been discontinued/ says that on midway.
norma tac 22 vs norma match
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A couple of rifles shoot the match better. One shoot the Tac-22 better. 
. I have seen Match available so maybe Midway just won’t be stocking it.
. I have seen Match available so maybe Midway just won’t be stocking it.It all depends on the lot! Ihave different lots of tac 22 that shoot better than some lots of match 22 in guns. All depends on the lot your gun likes.
I have not messed with different lots of each, but Tac 22 shoots pretty consistently in my B14R. I didn't see any improvement with the Match Norma to make it worth the extra cost.
Very lot dependent. I have some current TAC 22 which shoots well in my RimX. Purely luck of the draw. Both by RWS.
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I chronographed the two rounds a few weeks ago.
The Norma Tac 22 gave me a Standard Deviation of 8 Extreme Spread of 22 and FPS of 1093
The Norma (NOT)Match "HIGH PERFORMANCE TARGET " Gave me a Standard Deviation of 17 Extreme Spread of 81 and FPS of 1100
Sorry for the confusion. I had to go and double check my boxes. The HIGH PERFORMANCE TARGET is I believe old stock and in a BLACK box rated for 1100 fps. I see it often advertised as "MATCH" but it is not. The new MATCH is in a RED box rated at 1083 just like the TAC. I Did not Chrono that. Totally my error. I misspoke.
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I forgot to mention this was through a CZ457 Varmint 20" non-match barrel.
I chronographed the two rounds a few weeks ago.
The Norma Tac 22 gave me a Standard Deviation of 8 Extreme Spread of 22 and FPS of 1093
The Norma (NOT)
Sorry for the confusion. I had to go and double check my boxes. The HIGH PERFORMANCE TARGET is I believe old stock and in a BLACK box rated for 1100 fps. I see it often advertised as "MATCH" but it is not. The new MATCH is in a RED box rated at 1083 just like the TAC. I Did not Chrono that. Totally my error. I misspoke.
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I forgot to mention this was through a CZ457 Varmint 20" non-match barrel.
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That makes me w
That makes me wonder if they goofed on the packaging line? My understanding is they lot test and whatever is the "Match Standard" is the Match and if it doesn't-Tac 22
See my corrected post above. I was mistaken about the Match ammo, It was HIGH PERFORMANCE TARGET that I had tested.
The rifle was a CZ457 Varmint, Non-Match, 20" barrel. 25 rounds were chrony for this test. ES22 SD 8 AVG FPS 1093, rated @1083.
I noted above I mis-spoke about the MATCG AMMO, It was the HIGH PERFORMANCE TARGET that I was testing that gave the other numbers. I corrected it above.
Match22 red box that I bought a few years ago shot fantastic, later lots I tried the
ES was around 31fps. It shoots very well but it is luck of the draw.
I imagine the ES would be grow with a larger sample, but if that batch shoots well in your rifle I'd be buying as much as I possibly could.
We are a Norma dealer. They can't secure a PO with RWS on the Match ammo. My guess is RWS jacked the price up like they did on their other ammo.
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I was hoping that when Norma USA started selling the re-branded RWS, they were in the process of building their own 22RF ammo factory here in the States. Wasn't just a pipe dream, as I'd heard rumors to the effect from various places. If Trump's tariffs didn't do anything else, getting a company like RWS to set up shop to build match grade 22RF ammo here in the U.S. would be a blessing...dittos for Lapua.
I did buy half-case lots of Norma TAC-22, along with several bricks of different lots of Match a couple of years ago, but none of the Match shot anything more than marginally better than the good lots of TAC-22 - and then, only in a nice Anschutz 1712, and not in any of my Vudoo or Rim-X rifles.
I did buy half-case lots of Norma TAC-22, along with several bricks of different lots of Match a couple of years ago, but none of the Match shot anything more than marginally better than the good lots of TAC-22 - and then, only in a nice Anschutz 1712, and not in any of my Vudoo or Rim-X rifles.
I shoot PRS22. RimX custom rig. I bought a case of TAC22 super cheap thinking it would be short range practice ammo with a goal of competing with RWS R50. Never found R50 in stock. However, the TAC22 - sample of one (1), hit the lottery - consistently has SD around 8 with sample size of 10 to 40. Had one brick of Norma Match that had SD of 7.8 but next bricks were higher.
22 ammo is just random chance on what you get unless you pay the big $$
22 ammo is just random chance on what you get unless you pay the big $$
