My 22 shoots 1/2" groups at 50 yards/meters all day! Really? Prove it!

A beautiful day called for some shooting! I have been waiting all winter for this.

Rifle is a dar 22 receiver, all kidd internals, dlask 16" xtreme barrel bentz chamber and Titan stock. I had 3 types of ammo today. eley rem eps match, eley tenex, eley match biathlon. I am submitting 2 targets that were back to back. Scope is a bushnell elite tac 6-24x50 with milldot.















 
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Good job, looks like you were thinking about shooting the RFC 100 yard challenge based on your "smoothie" target, hope to see ya enter this month!
 
Anschutz 54.18 with Leupold BR-24X scope, from Caldwell front and rear rests. Eley Tenex. Using .215 as a constant, the five groups in order of size are: .198, .216, .270, .281, .468", for an average group size of .287".




 
minimouse said:
Anschutz 54.18 with Leupold BR-24X scope, from Caldwell front and rear rests. Eley Tenex. Using .215 as a constant, the five groups in order of size are: .198, .216, .270, .281, .468", for an average group size of .287".




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Good shooting minimouse. I added you to the successful list.
 
A target from last weekend. Anschutz 64 Silhouette with a Leupold 6-18 X 40mm A.O. target scope, Caldwell bags front and rear. Eley Tenex. Using .215" as a constant, group sizes from smallest to largest are .190, .250, .293, .337, .487" for an average group size of .311".





 
minimouse said:
A target from last weekend. Anschutz 64 Silhouette with a Leupold 6-18 X 40mm A.O. target scope, Caldwell bags front and rear. Eley Tenex. Using .215" as a constant, group sizes from smallest to largest are .190, .250, .293, .337, .487" for an average group size of .311".





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2 in a row. Nice shooting. I added you to the list again.
 
RabidM4U5 said:
Good job, looks like you were thinking about shooting the RFC 100 yard challenge based on your "smoothie" target, hope to see ya enter this month!
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Thanks! If I can make it out again this month I will give the rfc 100 April challenge a go. I am not a member on rfc but I will sign up today. I have never shot a group with this rifle at 100. Not even sure what ammo to use. I will try to get my hands on some eley force and start there. I am thinking the higher velocity stuff should help at 100.
 
cangunnut said:
Thanks! If I can make it out again this month I will give the rfc 100 April challenge a go. I am not a member on rfc but I will sign up today. I have never shot a group with this rifle at 100. Not even sure what ammo to use. I will try to get my hands on some eley force and start there. I am thinking the higher velocity stuff should help at 100.
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High velocity is actually worse than the slower stuff. Generally, the ammo you used at 50 is a good starting point. Half inch groups at 50 usually translate to 1.0" to 1.5" at 100. You picked a tough month to get started on that match. The guy that designed the April target is a bit of a sadist.. lol.
 
Chilly807 said:
High velocity is actually worse than the slower stuff. Generally, the ammo you used at 50 is a good starting point. Half inch groups at 50 usually translate to 1.0" to 1.5" at 100. You picked a tough month to get started on that match. The guy that designed the April target is a bit of a sadist.. lol.
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Thanks. I will start with what has been working for ammo right now. I actually just signed up to rfc. Same username. I was just reading the whole thread for the 100yrd challenge this month and I agree that is the toughest challenge I have ever seen for 22lr. I do not think my dar can even come close but I will try if I can! Have another rifle in the works but it will not be ready for a while. Has not even made it across the border yet.
 
I went to the range today armed with an inch/pound torque driver and a box of Eley tenex in an attempt to dial in my rifle for the next fun shoot at our club. I don't normally buy ammo that's more than $10/50, but I guess that's what it takes eh? I have found it to be the most accurate ammo I've tried in my gun before and wanted to take the ammo out of the equation as much as possible while dialing in my action torque so I splurged. (Thanks for the tip yodave)

The biggest setback for my rifle IMHO is the scope. It's only 4x, and it's 60 some odd years old. That said its one of the clearest scopes with the finest crosshairs I've ever seen. They really don't make them like this anymore. But as a result my gun usually groups about 3/4" at 50m, my usual ammo of choice being RWS target rifle.

Now for the dancing banana!

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I absolutely F'n crushed it! Lol I wasn't even purposefully attempting the challenge as I had given up hope a while ago. But after the first two groups I knew I could have a chance here. I feel the combination of the right ammo, the right torque on the action screws (15 inch pounds), the right windless conditions, and the right target (I could line the crosshairs up with the dots quite easily) combined with a huge stroke of luck made this happen. Although I've always known the gun was capable.
Group sizes;
.146
.186
.377
.427
.429
Average group size .313.


Rifle is a Mossberg 146-b which I loaded single shot, trigger set to 13oz. It's so dark in the rifle shed I had to take it out to the baffles to get a good pic of it. It just wasn't showing in pictures, but it was shot from a bench with front and rear sandbags.







Please excuse my filthy verneer from work. It's old. It's seen some action.
 
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I honestly believe it was a fluke. A stroke of chance like the golfer in caddyshack who played his best game ever in a thunderstorm.

And sadly it'll probably never happen again as $25 for a pack of 50 rounds of tenex is just ugly. That hurt. But it has certainly inspired me to put a higher power scope on it and take it out further. It's pretty useless at 100m as it is.
 
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