I do like wood, but I'm kind of picky with the grain in a boring and straight kind of way.... not in to tiger stripes and really not into loose wavy grain with knots etc.Lol, "from your stash" makes it sound as though I was standing in front of a neatly arranged shelf holding numerous carefully stacked bricks of assorted ammo. And I do have something like that, but...I delve into it when I'm taking out one of my favourite guns and know which ammo it likes and which it doesn't.
Most of what I've shot through the NRim has been the other stuff; the ziploc baggies and half-boxes and handfuls of leftovers found in pockets and glove compartments and center consoles. Much of it was completely unidentifiable.
But today...I shot just over 100 rounds @ 50 yards of my dwindling supply of Winchester T22 and my entire remaining stock (60-ish) of Russian Junior .22lr. Thse are both standard velocity rounds. The Winchester produced very consistent 10-shot groups of roughly 1.25 inches. The worst group was 1.5 inches and it was the very first group shot with that ammo; further evidence of the need to season a rimfire bore with a specific rimfire load to get the best out of it. Yes, I am cheating and not counting two very obvious fliers of which I was aware as I shot; they were very clearly operator error and not ammo-related.
The Junior ammo was the last remaining vestige of a case of this stuff that I bought something like 30 years ago. This ammo was unbelievably cheap, and in hindsight I wish I had purchased all they had. It shoots quite well in virtually every gun I've ever tried, and extremely well in some of them. It's only real problem is that it is by far the dirtiest ammo I've ever used. Burns fairly dirty, stinks, and the stuff is coated with a dark waxy coating that is sticky and unpleasant to handle even when simply loading mags. When I first opened the case back in the previous millennium the boxes and the ammo inside of them looked like they had come from an archaeological dig and smelled like an unwashed SKS. After a shooting session, cleaning the rifle is reminiscent of a blackpowder clean-up.
But...5 out of 6 groups fired this morning with Junior (once again the first one was the worst) were within an inch in diameter, and two were 7/8-inch. And now I have none of this ammo left.Again, I'm not including an insanely bad flier that I felt immediately. Sue me.
As the trigger continues to improve on the NRim I expect the fliers to become less common.
That's not the only good news! This little gun still makes me smile when I pick it up; that's its main purpose, and it fills the role admirably...which is good news. There have been many guns I've purchased online, sight unseen, based upon nothing more than pictures and online reviews. Most of them were much more expensive than this one, supposedly better quality...and some of them I regretted purchasing within an hour of shooting them.
I have about 15 Ruger mags that all fit and feed perfectly in the NRim, and its two mags work perfectly in my single remaining 10/22. I quite like the semi-transparent construction.
Do it! Do it! Do it!
....but get the wood-stocked one.
The synthetic version looks pretty well executed on this gun.... mostly what attracts me is the fact they use Ruger Mags which like you I have a bunch of.
