Category: Rimfire

I was kind of hoping that the English stuff would beat the German ammo, but given that we were comparing practice ammo to match ammo, I’m not sure it was even a fair comparison anyways. Eley was the only bullet in our Great 2014 22LR test that had a light colored lead bullet. Not sure…

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The creme of the crop in our 2014 22LR ammo comparison was SK Rifle Match. Very similar to the SK Standard Plus, but just a touch more consistent across the field. Easy to use packaging, non-greasy bullet lube, and amazing accuracy. SK Rifle Match Accuracy As I mentioned with the SK Standard Plus, we’re definitely…

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More great German ammo. SK Standard Plus was available at my gun shop for the same price as SK Rifle Match (who priced this stuff out?). Bullets are very concentric with minor marks (you can see them in the image above) that may have happened in the lubing process or in shipping. SK Standard Plus…

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Zee German Ammo For someone who grew up shooting whatever cheap 22 ammo I could get my hands on, these was very high end 22 “shells”. It gave consistently great groups from pretty much all of the rifles that it was shot with. I think that ammo like this hints at the difference in gun cultures…

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I was expecting more out of this round. With its promises of being a match round, great packaging, and decent looking bullets, I thought it was going to be a decent domestic competitor to the other match ammo types from the 2014 22LR test. Not only that, but it’s high velocity. Too bad accuracy did…

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 Cheap, Cheerful, and Available Winchester 333 is a smaller bulk pack version of the same stuff in the 555 packs. Surprisingly, the 333 bulk packaged Winchester 22LR came in the most accurate of all the bulk ammo types tested in our 2014 22LR test. I squeezed very adequate accuracy out of the Marlin 795, Norinco…

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