I had some time to do a little more shooting today as we got a two day break in the weather. 20's last weekend, 60 today, and 20's by Saturday. Gotta love East TN in the winter. By the time I could make it out this afternoon it was mid 50's with light fog and a calm wind. As I've been breaking in the V22 I've shot SK STD+, SK Rifle Match, and Center X. I've sort of been paying attention to how they each are shooting, but haven't really done any consecutive group averages to really see what they're doing when we break out the calipers. Today I shot Rifle Match, Center X, and out of curiosity, a random box of Eley Match I had left over. All groups pictured in this post are shot off bipod with rear bag.
I may not doing this correctly, but this image shows how I'm measuring groups.....outside to widest part of black - .22 = group size.
Most of what I thought was confirmed when I put calipers to groups. Rifle Match had been shooting very well for me, and that was confirmed today...I either have a really good lot of this stuff or a bad lot of Center X. Either way, this rifle really seems to like Rifle Match. With each different ammo I shot 10 rounds on different dots not pictured here before I started shooting these groups. Don't know if it matters or not, but I figured I should put a few down the pipe just to make sure I gave them all a fair shake in case the different bullet lubes caused any change in groups.
So there you go. No cherry picked groups. That's 90 rounds on paper with 3 different ammos. The Rifle Match shot lights out in my particular rifle, which I couldn't be happier about since it's relatively cheap and I happen to have 3K of this lot sitting in the basement! In fact, if you take that one bad (.520) group out of the mix the remaining 5 groups average .203. Pretty strong as far as I'm concerned.
Someone earlier mentioned the lack of love for RWS. I had good results from RWS Rifle Match in an Annie 64 I had, but I don't have any left. I may order some RWS rifle match and special match just to see how they do, but to be honest I don't know if I'll do any better than what I've got right now, especially for the cost.
Here are some cherry picked best groups at 100 and 200 from a couple weeks ago with the SK rifle match.
![100.jpg 100.jpg](https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/data/attachments/52/52601-e6cb5d71f541fbd3dda50e6086e85dba.jpg)
100 yds
Same 100 yd group pictured above
![200.jpg 200.jpg](https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/data/attachments/52/52603-81060d2a587f28c44e4d239681546b04.jpg)
200 yd group
I've learned a lot about rimfire accuracy in the last few years of chasing what I thought should be easily attainable one hole groups at 50 yards. Many different rifles and many 1,000's of rounds later I've learned that there are so many variables when shooting a 22 like most of us are, that I'm currently about as close to accuracy perfection as I can reasonably hope to get considering I'm laying in the dirt shooting these groups. It cost me a lot of time and money to get here, but for the first time I can say I'm truly happy with the level of accuracy this rifle delivers. The entire experience with Vudoo, both the rifle and the people, has been nothing less than stellar.