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Tested 4 kinds of match ammo for BPCR at 200 yards
05-15-2020, 11:10 PM,
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Tested 4 kinds of match ammo for BPCR at 200 yards
My wife, Phoebe, has a Stevens Model 45 that we replaced the Swiss butt plate with one that is BPCR legal. It has a Winchester B scope on it. Very nice, especially for a 100 year old rifle. She sits and shoots off cross sticks. I have a Miroku Winchester 1885 with a tang sight. I was shooting prone off the cross sticks.
We had learned that the nice groups we got with Norma Match at 100 yards became not so nice at 200 yds. Today we got some calmer winds and tested four different .22 match ammo through both our rifles. After each string I thoroughly cleaned the bore so each string was from the same barrel condition. We each shot ten shot groups at 200 yards with Eley Tenex (red box), SK Long Range Match, Lapua Midas, and Eley Match (black box).
Phoebe shot 9 of ten shots inside a half minute vertically with the Eley Tenex. She shot all ten inside a minute vertically with 6 shots inside half a minute with the SK LR. The Eley Match was not as good as either of the first two. The Lapua Midas was noticeably much worse than the other three.
I found that the Tenex and SK LR were almost the same with good groups in my rifle. The Eley match gave me about 12" of vertical which was way more than the other two. The Midas was like buckshot all over the paper. We both were having a little bit of trouble keeping our horizontal where we wanted it even with only slight cross winds.
So the Norma will do for chickens and pigs - the SK (cheaper than Tenex by half) seems to be fine at 200 yards so it should hit turkeys at 150. Phoebe's sub MOA vertical with the 10X was impressive but the SK LR was almost as good. With my rifle the two are about the same so no need to spend twice as much for a marginally better group. We'll try it again. Repeatable results before buying a lot of bulk ammo.
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Tested 4 kinds of match ammo for BPCR at 200 yards - by Fogman01 - 05-15-2020, 11:10 PM

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