Thread: Fun with 22s - wee ammo test

@Tentman have you got groups with other torque settings ?

Originally Posted by Bagheera

@Tentman have you got groups with other torque settings ?

Well I did, but couldn't for the life of me figure out what I'd done with them. Had another look this arvo and all became clear . . . . I'd pasted another target on top of it - Doh!

So in the interest of science I shot it again, results were similar but not quite as easy to interpret as the first one.



So, ammo Eley Club. Distance 48M. Generally my Lithgow doesn't do "cold bore shots" but it did today. So first group at 12.5 inlbs 0.543 excluding the CBS. I shot another group at this setting and it went 0.310. Ignoring that as a outlier increased to 17 inlbs 0.539 was the result. Went to 20 inlbs and shot a 0.312, nice round group. Up 25 in lbs and 0.816 with pronounced vertical stringing. Went back down to 20 in lbs and oops a flier opened it up to 0.695. Rest again properly to 20 in lbs by loosening it right off and going "up" to 20 in lbs using 3 stages. Last group, normal service resumed and a 0.296 group.

My learnings in this:

Always get to your chosen torque setting going up in stages
Look for round even groups with no stringing (even if they may be bigger than groups with stringing)
All 22 ammo will have fliers, the trick is to know your ammo and rifle and be honest with yourself.