Questions for .22 Bench rest shooters

For shooting at various distances out to 100M and sometimes more a variable power scope with bigger objective has some great advantages, I've played a bit with both. Fixed 36X in high mirage at 100M, good luck seeing the target at all, 50M or less is quite fine.

As to ammo, Standard plus and Rifle Match is great and cost effective and can keep most shooters learning for quite a while before spending more $ really shows any difference on the average.
 
Between my Father and I we have 5 products from Luepold, 2- 36x's, a 6.5 to 20, a 4x EER, and a 25x spotting scope, all perform flawlessly. Shooting rimfire benchrest we haven't experienced mirage problems. Shooting 22-250 at 100 is a different story. The following thread discusses Nightforce's offerings for .22 benchrest, offered as food for thought. (http://benchrest.com/showthread.php?87165-So-many-Niteforce-Competition-Scop)
I have to disagree with SND's advice regarding ammunition, Tune your rifle with the various ammo's that fall in your price range, finding what shoots well is part of the fun of benchrest shooting IMHO.
 
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I hear you on the ammo testing The rifle will tell me what it likes to eat. I plan on testing everything from cheap to mid range priced target ammo you never know what works.
 
With a box of each, start shooting groups with one, firing your first 5 to 10 to coat the bore, then try 5 or more 5 shot groups.
You may want to clean after each box and it you do, pay attention to where the first shots go with a clean barrel. My Remington 40XB will print about an inch from the group when clean and after 5 rounds will be back to normal as is the Anschutz.
Move on to the next and use the same procedure, and so on.
Keep all your targets and average the group size.
If you are going to shoot targets, stick with standard velocity.
If small game is your object, use high velocity but probably avoid hyper velocity.
The low noise .22 ammo will print considerably lower at 50 yards; the .22 BR crowd does not use it!
 
Boy is that a kettle of fish. LOL To clean or not to clean. My Father is convinced that a thorough cleaning of his Annie 54 threw his accuracy off significantly. Kidd, the maker of one of my barrels says to clean the chamber regularly but leave the barrel to every 500 rds. My suggestion is to find a base line...cleaned or not cleaned and run with it. So many variables it will make you nuts. LOL
 
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