[spike1]

Q; “I wonder if you'd get the same results with a few different rifles....”

Normally I would think not,,,, But not too long ago I did a limited test with my Remington 597 (POS) and that is about as different a gun as you can get. The top of the list was still the Remingtons Gold and the Mini Mags, Federal was poor and those Stinger sure sounded cool but the targets said different. In the past I sure loved those Stingers. It wasn’t until I really started going to a shooting range that I figured out that Mini Mags pattered a lot smaller and that was in a 10/22.

Autoloader are fun but I was really interested in finding the optimum bullet for this bolt action Marlin since you only get 1 shot at a time. I was in shock at how small the patterns are compared to the autoloaders. I’ll tell you this, by selecting the correct ammo you really can shoot ½ inch groups at 50 yards.

I guess what we would need to do is select ~ 6 different brands/types and have 5 to 10 people go out and do a real test from a bench with their rifles. Maybe shoot 3 groups each to throw out the lucky groups or the (I have to pee) bad groups. This could give us better data.

To me it starting to looks like better 22 ammo is better 22 ammo. I know this just doesn’t hold true in higher power rifles.