But I love it. Has taught me a lot as I have taken the dive the past couple years. Finished getting a b14r together and getting it cycling. That was quite the feat in and of itself as these match 22lr 700 footprint guns are very touchy with feeding, stemming from the rounds needing to be fed directly into the chamber. So there can be zero mag slop. Zero. None.
But anyways. Went today to get it sighted in perfectly and numbers on a new lot of Eley Match.
After warming up the barrel to the new lot, here is my 10 shot group at 100 yards.
I'm happy with that. Half inch group with the 3 "flyers." 7 rounds on top of each other. (Blue crosshair is my POA)
So, lock down my zero and set my zero stop. Then onto the last part, get good chrono numbers.
A bit of background. Killough tests each lot of Eley ammo on 3 different barrels, takes the average velocity, and provides that number for each lot of ammo they sell. Pretty sweet. Never expect my velocity to be the exact same, and historically, I get a slightly lower velocity than what is advertised. Ample experience there with a Kidd Supergrade, Tikka T1x, T1x with a Lothar Walther match barrel, couple CZ 455's, etc. I bought 4k rounds of a somewhat hot Eley ammo, and it was going super a fair amount, about 70% of the time, a few weeks ago, so I ordered half a case of slower ammo, advertised at 1051.
Well, I attach my magnetospeed to this new ammo, annnnd...
Fuck! Still hot! Obviously worked fine at 100 yards, but this is gonna fall apart past that distance, and you can see it in the groups I was shooting. Good thing I'm heading out to shoot a 500 yard 22lr match tomorrow. This barrel is running super hot. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I guess that I need to get stuff from Killough that shoots around 1000 for them.
Otherwise, the numbers are good. I heard the one crack, but still a sub 5fps SD.... out of 22lr. My handloaded match centerfire rounds aren't running an SD under 5.
I'm loving this 22lr game, but damn she is a finicky lil bitch.
But anyways. Went today to get it sighted in perfectly and numbers on a new lot of Eley Match.
After warming up the barrel to the new lot, here is my 10 shot group at 100 yards.
I'm happy with that. Half inch group with the 3 "flyers." 7 rounds on top of each other. (Blue crosshair is my POA)
So, lock down my zero and set my zero stop. Then onto the last part, get good chrono numbers.
A bit of background. Killough tests each lot of Eley ammo on 3 different barrels, takes the average velocity, and provides that number for each lot of ammo they sell. Pretty sweet. Never expect my velocity to be the exact same, and historically, I get a slightly lower velocity than what is advertised. Ample experience there with a Kidd Supergrade, Tikka T1x, T1x with a Lothar Walther match barrel, couple CZ 455's, etc. I bought 4k rounds of a somewhat hot Eley ammo, and it was going super a fair amount, about 70% of the time, a few weeks ago, so I ordered half a case of slower ammo, advertised at 1051.
Well, I attach my magnetospeed to this new ammo, annnnd...
Fuck! Still hot! Obviously worked fine at 100 yards, but this is gonna fall apart past that distance, and you can see it in the groups I was shooting. Good thing I'm heading out to shoot a 500 yard 22lr match tomorrow. This barrel is running super hot. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I guess that I need to get stuff from Killough that shoots around 1000 for them.
Otherwise, the numbers are good. I heard the one crack, but still a sub 5fps SD.... out of 22lr. My handloaded match centerfire rounds aren't running an SD under 5.
I'm loving this 22lr game, but damn she is a finicky lil bitch.
