Hornady 22 Long Rifle 40 grain Lead Round Nose 1070 fps

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At International today and they had this ammo on sale and a brick walked out of the store with me for less that $60.
Marketed under a moniker of Varmint Express and with a Made in USA logo.
It seems new so worth a try.

Anyone try it or is it just expensive plinking ammo?

Range day next Tuesday . . .
 
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The box, flat plastic tray, the look & feel of the ammo all make me believe it's CCI Standard Velocity. It's 1070 fps too.
I have 5 boxes from Wally World but have not tried it out yet.
 
All of the paper boxes have a sticky label on the bottom covering off a lot number stamped into the bottom that is quite similar to CCI SV.
The rounds are set in a flat clear holder that is similar to CCI SV and you have to lift both end flaps to push the tray out of the box.

Yes Sakoman . . . very similar to CCI SV . . . Oh but for the conspiracy to try or intelligence!
 
brybenn said:
They shoot identical to cci sv in my savage. 10 shot groups of hornady and cci sv can be covered by a dime
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That's unbelievable accuracy for such inexpensive ammo. At 50 yards ten shot groups that can be covered by a dime means they are under .705" (or 17.9mm) outside edge-to-outside edge. At 50 yards that is good even for top quality match ammo with a match rifle, let alone a Savage. Center-to-center, those ten shot groups would be less than half and inch.
 
grauhanen said:
That's unbelievable accuracy for such inexpensive ammo. At 50 yards ten shot groups that can be covered by a dime means they are under .705" (or 17.9mm) outside edge-to-outside edge. At 50 yards that is good even for top quality match ammo with a match rifle, let alone a Savage. Center-to-center, those ten shot groups would be less than half and inch.
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That was at 25 m standing using only a bipod supporting the front of the rifle. Sorry for the confusion. At 50 yards if laying prone over bags front and rear i can do it with 5 shot groups if the wind is low. 10 shot groups easily covered with a quarter though.
Rifle is in a mdt lss22 chassis
 
Played around with this ammo at 100 meters using a CZ455 Varmint off a bipod and with a Weaver T36.
2+ inch groups if you neglect the two the bottom fell out of which made just under 5".
Should have tried some CCI SV but this stuff gets a thumb down.
Will try it in my 10/22 and if it cycles I will burn it off.
 
I haven't found that it groups even as well as CCI SV...though I have no doubt it's made BY CCI. My CZ and Anschutz 64 don't care for it...so now I don't either. lol It's ok to plink with, but I have a couple of boxes of 50 that have now been in the lock box for some time. Can't imagine it'll see the light of day anytime soon.
 
Sighted the 10/22 in at 50 yards using CCI and Hornady.
Using the third dot down from the cross hairs it was almost on at 100 yards.
Both grouped about the same at 100 yards. The Hornady shaded to the left and CCI to the right.
The CCI was from the trays and the Hornady from a paper box. These difference are similar to using CCI in paper boxes.
Heavy rain at times but little wind. Groups at 100 were probably a little over 2" which is about what should be expected from a 10/22.
Will test again under better conditions.

Good conditions yesterday so went out to test at 100 yards.

Hornady: 3.6", 2.29", 3.25", and 2.54
CCI SV Tray: 1.56, 2.55, 1.21 and 1.75
CCI SV boxed: 1.57, 1.85, 2.23 and 1.95
Remington Target . . . pretty hard to measure 5 shots when one was consistently off the paper!

Accuracy wise I don't see much similarity between Hornady and CCI.
The CCI results are fairly consistent with Rimfire Central results where rifles show a preference to one or the other.

Rifle was a Ruger 10/22 with a Bushnell 4500 4-16 at 16X.
CCI Box was best at 50 yards, and all would be good grouse loads at 25 yards but the Remington was still questionable and the poorest at all ranges.
 
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