berettaprofessor
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Got out yesterday to the "new" Fancy Creek Range in Riley County Kansas. I say "new" because it has just reopened after 3 years downtime; was supposed to only be 6 months, but government construction and COVID took it's toll. It's nice, but primarily they just replaced the wood baffles and dirt walls with concrete, so it's a lot louder and they didn't expand it...in fact the tables are closer together and I'm not sure if there are few or more lanes but not by much. But I digress.
I took a 10/22 rifle to determine its favorite ammo. The rifle is a 10/22 only by its Ruger receiver; it has a Volquartsen trigger group, Green Mountain barrel, and ambi-thumbhole stock, sporting a Bushnell Prime 6-18X50 scope. I tested Eley Match, Tenex, Eley Target, CCI Standard, Gemtech Suppressor, CCI Suppressor, CCI Clean, Federal Target, Federal Automatch, Wolf, RWS Subsonic and Browning HV at 50 yards. Two 5 shot groups of each before I decided I was starting to pull too many flyers.
And the surprising results; the best ammo for this rifle was the CCI Clean! Two groups of 0.8 MOA (see below). Eley Match had the next best groups and third was RWS Subsonic and CCI Standard. The best Tenex group was 1.026MOA, respectable, but not great. I had one FTF on the Tenex and two of the Eley Match (both from boxes I got from Midway only a month ago), the only FTF's of the day in any ammo. The Browning and Federal Automatch were the worst groups consistently.
Who would have thought it would be CCI Clean to turn out on top? I need to test it in a couple of other rifles. My go-to has been CCI Standard but I need to lay at least some of this stuff in.
I took a 10/22 rifle to determine its favorite ammo. The rifle is a 10/22 only by its Ruger receiver; it has a Volquartsen trigger group, Green Mountain barrel, and ambi-thumbhole stock, sporting a Bushnell Prime 6-18X50 scope. I tested Eley Match, Tenex, Eley Target, CCI Standard, Gemtech Suppressor, CCI Suppressor, CCI Clean, Federal Target, Federal Automatch, Wolf, RWS Subsonic and Browning HV at 50 yards. Two 5 shot groups of each before I decided I was starting to pull too many flyers.
And the surprising results; the best ammo for this rifle was the CCI Clean! Two groups of 0.8 MOA (see below). Eley Match had the next best groups and third was RWS Subsonic and CCI Standard. The best Tenex group was 1.026MOA, respectable, but not great. I had one FTF on the Tenex and two of the Eley Match (both from boxes I got from Midway only a month ago), the only FTF's of the day in any ammo. The Browning and Federal Automatch were the worst groups consistently.
Who would have thought it would be CCI Clean to turn out on top? I need to test it in a couple of other rifles. My go-to has been CCI Standard but I need to lay at least some of this stuff in.