For shooters in general, no brand of .22LR ammo all shoots the same. No variety of a brand, Aguila Super Extra or Aguila Match, for example, all shoots the same. The Super Extra bought today may shoot decently but what's bought next time may be quite different.
Agree 100%. I find unless it is something like SK, the consistency between lots can vary, sometimes wildly. Even this afternoon, I was shooting my 457 with CCI Blazer. I had a bulk box of 500 which I have been slowly going through, though I also had some loose 50-count smaller boxes from a brick. Both the bulk box and the boxes from the brick are the same stuff, 40gr round nose. The lot numbers are obviously different.
All things being equal, I shot the bulk box first seeing as how I have been slowly depleting it over time. Out of curiosity I loaded up some magazines with the stuff from the smaller boxes from the brick. To my surprise even though it was apparently the same stuff, the bulk box was much more accurate. Same gun, same optic, same setup at the bench, same magazines, same weather conditions, same 1.5 hour window. Just in case I thought it was maybe me, I went back to the bulk box and shot at a different spot on my target and it grouped just like it did on the initial 10 shots with the bulk stuff.
Back to Aguila Super Hollow Points 38 grain. I shot a bunch of it last Fall and was impressed (was surprised as hollow points don't seem to feed great in my 457, but then again I was using Remington Golden Bullets previously). I had bought a box of the Aguila Super Hollow Points at G4C on a lark when it was on sale a while back, and I was not expecting a whole lot but it performed better than I expected. And it was better than the Aguila Standard Velocity, Aguila Copper Plated Solid Point and even better than the Aguila Match that I had previously tried and for my 457, the results were meh, though some of them ran better through my el cheapo Savage Mark II. Go figure.
Unless it's the same stuff from the same lot, results may vary.
