SK Launches New Long Range Match .22 LR Ammunition

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So excited about this!
Lets hope we can get some for this years shooting season.

SK Long Range Match

SK Ammunition, manufacturers of high-quality .22 LR cartridges for nearly 190 consecutive years, announce our latest offering: “SK Long Range Match.” New for 2019, Long Range Match was developed for demanding .22 LR enthusiasts routinely acquiring targets out to 100 yards and beyond. It is purpose-built for today’s long range rimfire shooting disciplines ever-increasing in popularity, such as PRC, tactical rimfire, long range silhouette and more.



SK Ammunition Sales & Marketing Manager Joerg Melcher states, “Historically, high-quality match ammunition has been a barrier to entry for competitive target shooting. SK Long Range Match allows shooters to gain access to new competition rimfire rifle and pistol disciplines without overwhelming their pocketbooks.”



SK Long Range delivers accurate, high-quality rounds that reliably feed through your competitive target rifle. Centerfire competition shooters will also find SK Long Range Match the ideal training companion to prepare with .22 platforms similar to their big bore configuration. Whether you’re actively competing in today’s popular long range rimfire sports or connecting with LR targets from the firing line at your local club, instill the confidence you deserve with new SK Long Range Match, available in 2019.


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Very cool. Need more info.

Can you give us an idea of the expected Muzzle Velocity? Bullet weight? Ballistic Coefficient? projected trajectory?

Price?
 
Also very interested. Hopefully not so powerful that they risk causing problems with semi-autos?

If semi-auto function remains fine I’d love these because I love shooting 100m with the 10/22.
 
Tesro Inc said:
So excited about this!
Lets hope we can get some for this years shooting season.

SK Long Range Match

SK Ammunition, manufacturers of high-quality .22 LR cartridges for nearly 190 consecutive years, announce our latest offering: “SK Long Range Match.” New for 2019, Long Range Match was developed for demanding .22 LR enthusiasts routinely acquiring targets out to 100 yards and beyond. It is purpose-built for today’s long range rimfire shooting disciplines ever-increasing in popularity, such as PRC, tactical rimfire, long range silhouette and more.



SK Ammunition Sales & Marketing Manager Joerg Melcher states, “Historically, high-quality match ammunition has been a barrier to entry for competitive target shooting. SK Long Range Match allows shooters to gain access to new competition rimfire rifle and pistol disciplines without overwhelming their pocketbooks.”



SK Long Range delivers accurate, high-quality rounds that reliably feed through your competitive target rifle. Centerfire competition shooters will also find SK Long Range Match the ideal training companion to prepare with .22 platforms similar to their big bore configuration. Whether you’re actively competing in today’s popular long range rimfire sports or connecting with LR targets from the firing line at your local club, instill the confidence you deserve with new SK Long Range Match, available in 2019.


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Good grief!

Please tell the research and development guys at that German ammo company to slow down!

I have not even shot half of the new SK Flat Nose stuff that I got, now they have a new ammo!

It is a good thing that I am retired, or I would be missing time at the factory.
 
There was a time when the national matches included 100-yd outdoor .22 match rifle events. The site of D-Range at Connaught used to be a .22 layout, complete with target holders and crossfire backers.
 
Nice bit of marketing, but how? What makes it so special? Did they make extra efforts to lower the ES? Is the bullet engineered somehow to be better? Why is it long range suitable beyond just saying 'long range'? Give us something technical to back it up, long range shooters tend to be fairly tech savvy and would understand.
 
I'm sure it's fine ammo but when I think long range, I think bigger caliber not 22lr. That's just me.
 
There is no ballistic data on it yet and all we have is press release data until the trade show where where I am sure they will have more info for us.
That being said if we connect the dots, we can guess couple of things. Lapua has been involved with PRS both rimfire and centerfire for a while so I am guessing they are taking the feedback from the field and trying to make something that will be more suitable for beyond the 100yd. We have seen some really good results with longer ranges with some of he Lapua ammunition, especially with some little faster loads. For example Sk Biathlon Sport is rated at 1090 and the extra speed seems to help when going to longer ranges.
For the comments of what "long range" is, that is of course debatable. However when you take .22lr ammo I think anything beyond 100 meters could be considered long range.
Price wise, I am guessing it would be sub $10 per box. I could be wrong, but this is SKs sweet spot and I am pretty sure they want to defend hard that price segment.
Again, this is fresh off the news press so lets see what the numbers are once they are published and more importantly once we put them though the guns.
 
Tesro Inc said:
There is no ballistic data on it yet and all we have is press release data until the trade show where where I am sure they will have more info for us.
That being said if we connect the dots, we can guess couple of things. Lapua has been involved with PRS both rimfire and centerfire for a while so I am guessing they are taking the feedback from the field and trying to make something that will be more suitable for beyond the 100yd. We have seen some really good results with longer ranges with some of he Lapua ammunition, especially with some little faster loads. For example Sk Biathlon Sport is rated at 1090 and the extra speed seems to help when going to longer ranges.
For the comments of what "long range" is, that is of course debatable. However when you take .22lr ammo I think anything beyond 100 meters could be considered long range.
Price wise, I am guessing it would be sub $10 per box. I could be wrong, but this is SKs sweet spot and I am pretty sure they want to defend hard that price segment.
Again, this is fresh off the news press so lets see what the numbers are once they are published and more importantly once we put them though the guns.
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Thats It, Im going to visit the SK booth at SHOT Shownand I am going to get to the bottom of this.
 
PGW Steve said:
Nice bit of marketing, but how? What makes it so special? Did they make extra efforts to lower the ES? Is the bullet engineered somehow to be better? Why is it long range suitable beyond just saying 'long range'? Give us something technical to back it up, long range shooters tend to be fairly tech savvy and would understand.
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My hope is something a little heavier, 44-46 grains, that maintains a brisque velocity, that has more of a HPBT geometry and BC.
 
Sinbad said:
I'm sure it's fine ammo but when I think long range, I think bigger caliber not 22lr. That's just me.
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A hundred yards with a .22 is a real test for any marksman. The bullseye is as big as you want it, but the circular error inherent in each shot means you'd better not throw away any points. Your own error will show up, just like shooting air rifle is unforgiving.
 
I have recently decided that 22 "precision shooting" is the only kind that I will be able to practice enough to get a lot better at. First because cf ammo in the quantities required costs a lot more, and takes a lot more time reloading, and because 200-300yd ranges are relatively easy to find and get to, vs 1000yds. Watching that video, he shows that the drop and wind drift of a 168gr 308 at 1000yds is very similar to the drop and wind drift of a 22 at 300 yds. I expect 22 match ammo to move toward higher bc bullets if the rimfire precision game gets more popular.
 
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