Is Eley sport junk?

[Mr. Z]

Digging through the ammo pile I came across roughly 3,000 Eley sport in the purple box. I must have grabbed what I could get during the last shortage. Don’t remember ever shooting any and am just starting to get into “precision .22”. Is it just bulk junk?

 

[straightshooter1]

Having only collected a little data from other's back to that period (have not fired any myself), the chrono numbers don't look good. ES's were awful . . . like in the 100's and SD's were high. Maybe you're got a good lot there or maybe is jut good for plinking, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Geno C.]

Not very good. Some short range plinking is about all I’d do with it

 

[Mr. Z]

I figured. When the boy grows past the BB gun I’ll put it to use. Thanks!

 

[Geno C.]

They work in the little ar nice though

 

[hlee]

If they all go bang they are better than Remington Golden bullet, so there's that...

 

[billmeek]

I'd test it in my own rifle(s) before considering it junk. I've had some respected ammo not do so well in a rifle whereas the cheaper ammo (i.e. CCI SV) did very well.

 

[Mr. Z]

If they all go bang they are better than Remington Golden bullet, so there's that...

I bought a brick of 555 a couple years ago and left 450+ in the box on the bench at the range. Gift or curse?

 

[Eoddave27]

All you can do is try it and see. I have had expensive ammo that was crap and cheap am that was amazing. Usually my crap ammo goes into the pile for my boys to shoot in their Ruger 22/45. That thing will shoot about anything and at 5-10 yards it doesn’t really matter how accurate it is.

 

[accurate obsession]

All Eley makes is 22 LR, I would go out on a limb here and say there is more to the process than random chance at the packaging line that these boxes will sell for $20 ea and the other ones will sell for $5.

 

[Nik H]

I have tried a couple of boxes and never had much luck with it out of my stick