Looking for new ammo

[MarkCZ]

I am looking to try some different ammo. I have seen a lot of guys shooting SK pistol Match in their rifles. There is Match and Match Special what are you using? How about SK Flatnose match and SK Biathlon? When is the SK long range match coming out?

I have or have shot Eley Target, Club, Edge, match, and tennex, Lapua CenterX, Midas+, Polar Biathlon, Wolf MT , ME, SK Std, and Rifle Match. I have a very good lot of Wolf/ Eley Match extra, that out shoots anything ammo I have on hand. I am going to do some testing at 200 yds and want to shoot different ammo. any info is welcome.

Mark

 

[straightshooter1]

How about:

RWS R50
RWS R100
Federal Ultra Match
CCI Green Tag
CCI Select Comp

 

[billmeek]

I wanted to do some testing too, so I went shopping online. These came in this week:

It'll likely be awhile before I can post any results. Hopefully someone else can provide you answers.

 

[flatland1]

I've not shot any of the SK Pistol Match Special - from what I've heard, it's loaded a bit hotter than std Pistol Match, and doesn't often shoot as well as the std stuff. Regular SK Pistol is pretty consistently good stuff. I have a select lot of SK Rifle Match that out-shoots Pistol by a bit, but it took a lot of testing to find that one really good lot of Rifle.

I've tried one lot of SL Flatnose Basic, and wasn't all that impressed with it. Would like to try several different lots of it just to see, but haven't gotten around to trying that. I've heard a few guys that have tried Flatnose Match say that the Basic shot just as well or better, but have no personal experience with the Match stuff. Again, if I lived within easy driving distance of a shop like Good Shooting in Joplin, Mo., I'd be all over doing more testing with this stuff.

Talked with Dan at the Lapua Test Center in Mesa last week, he's still looking for the SK LongRange ammo to show up within a few weeks. A friend gave me a box of Lapua Polar Biathlon more than a year ago that was hot stuff for 200yds - maybe the best ammo I've yet tried at 200-300. When I tried to buy samples of different lots of it, was told that "this stuff flies off the shelves as fast as we can get it in", so there wasn't much point in trying to test samples. I did buy four bricks of one lot, and a whopping six boxes of the only other lot they had at the time, and naturally, the six-box stuff out-shot the four brick lot by a considerable margin - probably why there were only six boxes of that lot left in stock... I'd hoped the Test Center would have some Polar to test in the V-22 bbl'd action I sent them, but Dan told me he had none available, so that didn't happen. The four bricks lot I bought has fairly wild ES, and typically has a lot of vertical spread at 200, so I'm not wild about buying any more of it in hopes of finding a better lot.

 

[justin amateur]

CCI Green Tag...CCI put it in a plastic box so it could get more of your green.
CCI Select...CCI selected some more ammo to put in a plastic box.
Testing across a chronograph and on paper shows both to be CCI SV in a fancier wrapper at a higher price per round.
CCI does not make match quality ammo. Test for function, chamber pressure, box it, ship it, sell it.
Out to 100 feet it'll do the job, beyond that lack of ammo quality begins to have it's effect.

If you want to be competitive y'er gonna have to spend y'er money. Consistent accuracy is expensive.
At 200 yards only the best will do. All the biathlon labeled 22lr's did well.

 

[straightshooter1]

CCI Green Tag...CCI put it in a plastic box so it could get more of your green.
CCI Select...CCI selected some more ammo to put in a plastic box.
Testing across a chronograph and on paper shows both to be CCI SV in a fancier wrapper at a higher price per round.

Yeah, my experience with those gave me the same impression. I was really disappointed in the Green Tag I tested didn't come anywhere close to what one would expect from match grade ammo.

On CCI Select, I was surprise that I got some good results getting 3/4 in groups at 50 yds. I wasn't expecting that from this as the published MV is at 1200 fps and I was getting large spread in ES and SD's in the 20's. And I was getting high velocities near 1300 fps. I'm going to test some more the next time out to see if I still get those results.

 

[JoeB]

I heard a long time ago that green tag was the beginning of a production run of standard velocity. The case die may not have any ware on it but everything else will be the same.

 

[Ravenworks]

I came across some SK Magazine and bought up 5 cans of it because it was great for storing around farm vehicles.
Wolf has been pretty good for me when it was made at Lapua's plant.
Haven't tried their new stuff yet since Eley ammunition took over production.

 

[flatland1]

justin amateur - The same friend who gave me a box of an excellent lot of Lapua Polar Biathlon also gave me a box of SK Biathlon Sport, saying he hadn't been all that impressed with it. I've shot a couple of 10rd groups out of that box, and haven't seen anything special out of it either. But, from the way the lot of it shot for you at 200, it looks as though it's got potential. Will have to call around to see if any of the distributors I deal with have any sort of selection of the stuff.

I'd seen Lapua Polar on sale at a couple of places, but the results I had out of the last lot of it I bought put me off buying more of it, even at a reduced price.

 

[justin amateur]

Flat, there are no guarantees with rimfire.
Just like you, I learned that a while back.
Doesn't matter how great the rifle is
if the ammo quality reeks, so do the results.
Purchasing from a retailer is a crap shoot.
Roll the dice, see if the money spent was worth it.
Even lot testing is no guarantee.
A small sample that shows decent results
doesn't mean the rest of the lot will be as good.
That's why I shoot rimfire at 200 yards.
No one expects tight groups at that distance.