200 yard challenge
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It would be 10 with you along. Nice stuff helps even the troubled ones! Be out your way soon. Make a day of it!
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20 kmh wind gusts and -10C still managed some good test groups with the eley force today. Spring should help clean up the vertical, wasn’t going to wait for the wind to calm down just let her fly. 200 yards prone
20 kmh wind gusts and -10C still managed some good test groups with the eley force today. Spring should help clean up the vertical, wasn’t going to wait for the wind to calm down just let her fly. 200 yards prone
Archie_james_c(2.0)
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While I’m waiting on a brick of SK LR Match I went out and burned off a couple hundred rounds of CCI SV today. I never measured it but we can see it’s 6”-7” and can assume the mediocre ammo was the limiting factor. Went 2 for 30 on 200 yard golf balls afterwards 
https://youtu.be/lHZOiVs-Akg
https://youtu.be/lHZOiVs-Akg
Biggest problem with shooting 22 rimfire at long range is vertical dispersion.
Even the very highest quality match ammo will have muzzle velocity variances
of 10-15 fps. Horizontal is often quite impressive, though.
I have shot numerous 5 shot 200 meter groups under 1", with horizontal about
¼" and vertical ¾" to 15/16" This with Eley Match EPS that shoots particularly
well in 2 of my heavy match 22's. Dave.
Even the very highest quality match ammo will have muzzle velocity variances
of 10-15 fps. Horizontal is often quite impressive, though.
I have shot numerous 5 shot 200 meter groups under 1", with horizontal about
¼" and vertical ¾" to 15/16" This with Eley Match EPS that shoots particularly
well in 2 of my heavy match 22's. Dave.
Archie_james_c(2.0)
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200 meter 1” groups is dandy. But when the rifles built for it I suppose you expect that
My Tikka did noooot like the Eley I tried (club, match and match biathlon) though that’s in winter temps. I really had high hopes for the biathlon though and thought it was going to Waltz me into the 1/2” club. This is my first move into the Rimfire realm since shooting my old TOZ as a kid. It’s quite fun and enjoyable dealing with the temperature sensitive ammo and huge elevation corrections. For what CCI is, and the fact that it’s an unbedded or modified rifle, I’m pleased enough with it. Though SK LR Match shoots around 5/8” average for 5, 5 shot groups at 50 and 100 yards. So I’m anxious to try it further out once it arrives. I’m also on the hunt for a scope with more erector travel and a 15-30 MOA base. The Vari-X 3-9 just isn’t cutting it
You would think that after making rimfire ammo and all of the tech at our disposal that they could figure out a better priming compound and possibly better powder. If the vertical was figured out that little round will do some impressive things
turbo_bird
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I don't have a video of shooting 10 in a row, but this was the results I got shooting my Norinco NS522 at 200 yards a few years back. I was using CCI Blazer ammo, sandbags on the hood of my truck, a cheap Mueller 4-16 scope from amazon, and a 7" steel target. It was surprisingly easy to hit it once I took a few shots to dial it in. I used a ballistics app on my phone for the first try, and it was surprisingly close.
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I need to practice more, it's been a few years and I'm getting rusty. It's a lot of fun stretching out a 22 though.
Kristian
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I need to practice more, it's been a few years and I'm getting rusty. It's a lot of fun stretching out a 22 though.
Kristian
just came across this thread. Happened to be out this past weekend testing out SK long range in my ORPS rifle. 16.5” Dlask barrel in DAR22 receiver.
Shot 3 groups at 185yards, first was 10 shots to warm the barrel, second was 5 shots. No wind adjustment from my 50yard zero.
Shot 3 groups at 185yards, first was 10 shots to warm the barrel, second was 5 shots. No wind adjustment from my 50yard zero.
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200 meter 1” groups is dandy. But when the rifles built for it I suppose you expect that
A couple of questions for thought.
Is there really a .22LR rifle specifically built for 200 yard/meter shooting? How would it differ from one built for shorter distances? What role does ammo selection have in long distance accuracy?
There are no rifles made specifically for long distance shooting as opposed to 100 yards/meters or less. A rifle that shoots very well at 50 yards has the ability to shoot very well at 100 and more. There are no rifles that will produce better accuracy (measured in MOA) at longer distances than shorter ones. If a rifle can't shoot very well at 50 yards, it can't do very well at 100 yards or more.
Ammo selection is always paramount. A rifle with tremendous accuracy potential will not shoot well with poorly selected ammo. No rifle will. In order to get exceptional results at 200 yards/meters the ammo must be very good indeed. To find such ammo it is invariably necessary to lot test for the best ammo for a particular rifle. Sometimes a shooter gets lucky and finds a good lot by chance. That's like winning an ammo lottery. But no one should rely on ordering a particular variety of ammo and expecting that it will be especially good because of its price or because it shot well for someone else. At the same time -- and this is important to keep in mind -- .22LR ammo must perform exceptionally well at 50 yards in order to do very well at longer distances. There's no such thing as .22LR ammo that does better MOA-wise at longer range than it does closer up.
In short, exceptional ammo is just as necessary as a very good rifle. To be sure, the differences between results can be more readily apparent at 100 yards than at 50. At the same time, however, if a rifle and ammo can't perform well at 50, there's little reason to hope for better results longer out.
But those are only two of the ingredients. A third important part is the skill of the shooter. Two shooters using the same rifle and same lot of ammo in identical conditions will not necessarily produce the same results. Two very skilful shooters are more apt to do so, but it often doesn't occur when the skill and experience levels are different.
When someone shoots very, very well at 200 yards, like Eagleye has, it's not because he has a rifle built for long range shooting. It's because he has a very good rifle, very good ammo that suits his particular rifle, and he is a skilful shooter.
