Vudoo Gun Works V-22 Rimfire Bolt Action

[slodsm]

So after probably 1k rounds total of RWS, SKRM, Eley match, Eley Team, Wolf ME, and FINALLY gave up and bought some Lapua Pistol King as there was literally no other Lapua ammo on planet earth…..


My Vudoo shoots like a Vudoo and I got some hero groups. I was starting to think mine was as broke lmao, it shot well, but only at 50 yards, absolutely fell apart at 100 and beyond no matter which ammo I used and my Tikka would shoot circles around it out to 300.

Today I only setup steel at 200 and 300 but my 50 and 100 yard groups have 2 pretty distinct happy places with my Cortina Tuner and it was repeatable in and out.

Setup is a V22 V2, TT Diamond, MDT CRS, Warne mount, Leupold MK4 8-32, Warne GRND-PD, and this was shot off a wiebad mini fortune cookie for a rear bag.

Now I can finally see the hype is about more than just the smoothest action I’ve ever touched. The one single random hole a couple of inches away from the really good group at 50yds was sighting the scope in from bore sight, just swapped this scope on last night.

I’ll be hunting down and buying as much of this pistol king as I can.

 

[littlesister]

So after probably 1k rounds total of RWS, SKRM, Eley match, Eley Team, Wolf ME, and FINALLY gave up and bought some Lapua Pistol King as there was literally no other Lapua ammo on planet earth…..


My Vudoo shoots like a Vudoo and I got some hero groups. I was starting to think mine was as broke lmao, it shot well, but only at 50 yards, absolutely fell apart at 100 and beyond no matter which ammo I used and my Tikka would shoot circles around it out to 300.

Today I only setup steel at 200 and 300 but my 50 and 100 yard groups have 2 pretty distinct happy places with my Cortina Tuner and it was repeatable in and out.

Setup is a V22 V2, TT Diamond, MDT CRS, Warne mount, Leupold MK4 8-32, Warne GRND-PD, and this was shot off a wiebad mini fortune cookie for a rear bag.

Now I can finally see the hype is about more than just the smoothest action I’ve ever touched. The one single random hole a couple of inches away from the really good group at 50yds was sighting the scope in from bore sight, just swapped this scope on last night.

I’ll be hunting down and buying as much of this pistol king as I can.

You might find that the next lot of Pistol King shoots like crap. It's not about the name. It's all about that particular lot!

 

[slodsm]

You might find that the next lot of Pistol King shoots like crap. It's not about the name. It's all about that particular lot!

Oh I know man, I did this with the Tikka using a Shilen barrel but it like pretty much EVERY Eley round out there, the groups just got tighter with the money spent but it shot them all well. When I found the Eley Match it liked I bought a ton of it.

This barrel I was starting the think literally hated everything. Now I gotta try to find this lot number from good shooting or someone and buy a butt ton as I only have 2k of this.

 

[Kadams1563]

Those groups at 100 yards are good. I just did a test with 100 rounds of SK Long Range, 100 Lapua Long Range, and 100 of Lapua Super long Range. Did groups at 50 (they were all touching and ragged holes), 100 opened up to about MOA, 200 yards groups averaged about 2.5”-3”.

The Lapua along Range absolutely shot the best between my DI precision and my buddies Vudoo Bartlien.

With that being said ordered a case of SK long range die to the groups and data being 98% of the Lapua Long Range but much cheaper. Cases of SK long Range for under a $1000.


Edit: I also did 10 shot groups. If I stick with 5 shot groups I could have cherry picked several at 100 that were stacking. Once you shoot 10 you get one that has to go somewhere else. Lol

 

[flatland1]

I bought a full case of SK Pistol Match several years ago after lot testing five or six lots of it, and finding out that the hardest thing to do was to try to figure out which of those lots shot best - it all shot great! But I think it was only really that good at 50yds. Still have a few bricks of it, so could always try it again in my Vudoo repeaters to see if that's correct. Found similar results with some of the SK Std+ that shot really well at 50. The outlier was one particular lot of Std+ that out-shot most of the other various grades of SK & Lapua I had at 200yds. out of Lilja & Benchmark barrels I had on the two converted 40X repeaters at the time.

I've seen a few lots of Eley Match with the flat-nose bullets that shot significantly better 200yd groups out of my Vudoos than even the Lapua Center-X I bought after sending a Vudoo out to Mesa to have it lot tested. Never had a lot of luck getting Eley to feed smoothly though, so have stuck with an exceptional lot of SK Rifle Match & the lot tested Center-X.

 

[ToddM]

Pistol Match is one of those you hear about often and folks feel strongly one way or another about. For every guy that swears by the stuff there's one saying it shot horrible. These days it seems like lot to lot variation is increasing, and it's increasingly harder to buy a lot when you find a good one. Shooting enough rounds is hard as well. Someone posted quite awhile ago in one of the rimfire forums that even they guys at the testing center mentioned that the highest tier ammo can have 1-2 "bad" rounds in a box. Granted I'm sure Center-x, Tenex "bad" rounds are not as bad as Eley Club etc. Along with the fact that it seems to be a mystery (or at least highly contended) on if you are really getting the best results based on cleaning and switching ammo. Some say you might have to fire 100-500 rounds to "season" a barrel to a certain ammo and get the best groups, and if you switch ammo at the range testing I've read over the years people report anywhere from 5 to 100+ rounds is needed because of the lube changes between brands. So if that's true, it would seem the vast majority may not shooting enough of a particular ammo/lot to really know it's max performance.

It seems like the easy button is to send it out to a testing center or two, and buy whatever tests best, but as others have noted what groups best at 50/100 may not at 200-300. It will be interesting with the expanse of long range rimfire if we'll ever see testing centers that expand their max ranges.

 

[flatland1]

In my experience with mostly Krieger cut-rifled & Shilen select match ratchet button rifled bbls on 40X, Vudoo, and CZ repeaters, I've never seen the need for more than a very few rounds after cleaning to get a barrel shooting to its potential again. While it's typical to see some effects when switching between SK/Lapua & Eley without cleaning, I can't say that I've ever seen anything that would lead me to believe that it could take more than a couple of 5-shot strings to get back to a barrel's potential accuracy. I've also had a couple of Benchmark barrels & one Lilja on 40X & a V22S, but haven't seen any real difference in how quickly they 'settle' after switching brands of ammo either. The Lilja was a tite-bore, and it seemed to me that it needed cleaning after 100-125rds to maintain its accuracy, but it shot at least as good as any of the other custom barrels I've owned up to that point, and it never took more than a few wet patches followed by a couple of dry ones to bring it back up to the level of accuracy that it was capable of. With the exception of that barrel, I'm not one of those guys who will shoot a 22RF bbl until the accuracy drops off before cleaning. I wet patch after every range session, whether I shoot 5-10rds or a couple hundred during a match. Unless I find a carbon ring (which is unusual with my frequent cleaning), I seldom use a solvent more exotic than plain old Ed's Red.
I'm pretty sure I don't shoot nearly as much or as often as some of the guys on here - still working the farm full-time without any hired help, and that & the shortage of SK/Lapua ammo keeps me from shooting as much as I'd like. So take the above for what it's worth - just my opinion, based on somewhat limited experience...

 

[AirGunShawn]

My V22 also shot like trash. It went back to Vudoo and then to Lapua for lot testing. My ammo was
SK Standard plus, SK Rifle match, Center-X, Midas Plus, and even a fair amount of high end ELEY products.
Like $24.00 a box type of ELEY. As a side bar ..... not a single rifle I own likes any ELEY products. I just took a quick look
and I still have over 20 bricks of various brands and lot numbers from my Vudoo testing. Below is my Walther UIT Super.
A quick and dirty scope mount, 30/40 rounds of warm up shooting, three pair on the left side of the target and five
rounds in the lower right corner. Its date code is "IA". I won it on GB for a grand total of $1126.93. My V22 was
over $3300.00 Did you consider sending it out for lot testing? I bought a case each for all three of my
actions so the $50.00 testing fees were waived. That also meant that Lapua found my Center X ammo for me.

The only two scopes I have left. Trijicon 5-50x56 moa. Crystal clear even at 10 yards and 50 power. Expensive but
necessary for Field Target air rifle.

Above, in post #10807, Flatlands said, "I've never seen the need for more than a very few rounds after cleaning to get a
barrel shooting to its potential again. " I have observed the similar thing. I don't find that a lot of shots are required to
determine If my rifle tends to like a new lot. Keep in mind, I'm just getting a quick idea and not doing exhaustive testing yet.