MrDesertBrat
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Folks,
I am returning to the .22LR benchrest game after a near 20 year hiatus - so please pardon a few questions that probably have been asked before a bunch of times. Looking at IR 50/50 with the new 50 yard and 100 yard programs.
Current rifle is a dusty Annie 54 action, <1 oz Annie trigger, with a Shelin barrel, McMillin stock, Hoen Tuner and was assembled and chambered by Niel Johnson out of Colorado for me 20 years ago... it has produced a couple of RBA 250 - 250-19x's. It loved the Eley flat nose auto @ 1072 fps (2005 version). Lapua Midas L as a backup. That was then. I need to search for "todays best". Where do I start.
We used to believe that Eley Tenex was Eley's top line and made on their "best" and "tightest" machines. Eley would then "cull" out some round that varied from their tightest standards and that was rebranded as a "lesser" Eley subbrand. In this way, Tenex had the least amount of deviation - each round was closer in spec to each other. Or so we believed. We believed Lapua did the same. We even went so far as to try and determine, by lot number coding (we had spy's that supposedly gave us the secret coding) , what machine the ammo was made on - and if a lot was consumed, we searched for other lots made from the same machine. No sure this was true or just the desert heat frying our brains. {sigh} - in retro spec we probably spent too much time on this and should have used that time on the range.
I recognize that every gun shoots rimfire ammo differently - sometimes CCI SV cuts a one hole group at 50 yrds for some rifles and Tenex has more of a spread then you might like. No telling what a gun might like - it can surprize ya.
All that said, in today's world, with current manufacuring and cross brand manufacting (Wolf and Eley - SK and Lupua, etc.) what is currently occuring in todays .22lr markets? What brand(s) seems to be the most consistant? Eley, Lapua, Wolf, SK, RWS, etc.
Where the heck do I start??????? beside asking this brain trust, where to start.
Thanks a Bunch.
I am returning to the .22LR benchrest game after a near 20 year hiatus - so please pardon a few questions that probably have been asked before a bunch of times. Looking at IR 50/50 with the new 50 yard and 100 yard programs.
Current rifle is a dusty Annie 54 action, <1 oz Annie trigger, with a Shelin barrel, McMillin stock, Hoen Tuner and was assembled and chambered by Niel Johnson out of Colorado for me 20 years ago... it has produced a couple of RBA 250 - 250-19x's. It loved the Eley flat nose auto @ 1072 fps (2005 version). Lapua Midas L as a backup. That was then. I need to search for "todays best". Where do I start.
We used to believe that Eley Tenex was Eley's top line and made on their "best" and "tightest" machines. Eley would then "cull" out some round that varied from their tightest standards and that was rebranded as a "lesser" Eley subbrand. In this way, Tenex had the least amount of deviation - each round was closer in spec to each other. Or so we believed. We believed Lapua did the same. We even went so far as to try and determine, by lot number coding (we had spy's that supposedly gave us the secret coding) , what machine the ammo was made on - and if a lot was consumed, we searched for other lots made from the same machine. No sure this was true or just the desert heat frying our brains. {sigh} - in retro spec we probably spent too much time on this and should have used that time on the range.
I recognize that every gun shoots rimfire ammo differently - sometimes CCI SV cuts a one hole group at 50 yrds for some rifles and Tenex has more of a spread then you might like. No telling what a gun might like - it can surprize ya.
All that said, in today's world, with current manufacuring and cross brand manufacting (Wolf and Eley - SK and Lupua, etc.) what is currently occuring in todays .22lr markets? What brand(s) seems to be the most consistant? Eley, Lapua, Wolf, SK, RWS, etc.
Where the heck do I start??????? beside asking this brain trust, where to start.
Thanks a Bunch.