RUGER 10_22 TEST PART 3

Welcome back, friends. We are in the home stretch of our 22 ammo shootout here with our Ruger 10-22. We've got some old players back. We've got some new ones. Some people requested we shoot some different types of ammo, and here's one of them, the RWS Rifle Match and also the Ely Telex at $20.99 a box, by the way. We're also going to have Remington 22 Target, Lapua Center X. Some more Ely. This is the fourth that's made for semi-automatics. Ely Target that did pretty well before. CCI Standard Velocity and CCI Green Tag. And for the old core boys, the Federal Auto Match. As you can tell, we've gone indoors. We've had some rain and just not able to get outside, but we got a 50-yard range here indoors. We have the whole phase to ourself right now, but we do have some goofballs next door just rapid firing their butts off. So I'm going to try and get this in and talk to you over the gunfire. So let's get going with it. Well, here's our preliminary findings here. It looks like the CCI Standard Velocity and the Green Tag shot pretty close. When we get home, we'll get these marked up, but that looks pretty good. The Ely Force, the one that's for semi-automatics, that looks pretty good. Ely Target, a little wider there. The Lapua Center X, as expected, that should shoot well. Look at the RWS Rifle Match down at the bottom. That's a five-shot group. Looks pretty good. Federal Auto Match for us poor boys, that's going to still be the bulk ammo of choice, I think. Remington .22 Target, no reason to test that anymore. It just doesn't work all that well. But Ely Telex, they're the right-hand middle target. I'm not sure if it performed any better than the other two Elys at a fraction of the price, but we'll get them scored up and we'll see what they look like. Well, we had a good visit to the range there. Spent a lot of time working with these different ammos. After running about 10 fouling shots downrange with some CCI Standard Velocity, we went ahead and started our test. And in first place was the RWS Rifle Match. We hadn't shot this before. It was $12.99 a box. A really nice grouping, .219. Probably be shooting some more of this, we'll just have to see. Number two, no surprise here, CCI Standard Velocity. We got a .222 group, and this stuff is $3.49 a box. Number three went to the Ely Force. Remember, this is the one that's all black, supposedly designed for semi-automatics. Runs $8.99 a box, and we got a .232. You can tell all these groupings are... Everything's getting tighter. We're getting closer as to what shoots best through this rifle. We didn't have any flyers out here or anything. Everything is kind of nice and tight. Shoots good in the 10-22. Don't know what it'll do in a bolt gun, but it's $8.99 a box. And then our fourth place guy was a CCI Green Tag. The grouping's still good, .260, but are you going to spend $8.99 a box when you can get this for $3.49? I don't know. You can buy this just about everywhere. None of my gun stores carry this. I have to get this from Midway or somebody. Number five, and a disappointment to me, was the Lapua Center X, $12.99 a box, .368. I mean, there's nothing to be ashamed of with that grouping right there. I was just expecting a little bit more. You see this ammo... I see this ammo more on different competitions than probably any other with the exception of maybe this Ely 10X. But in a lot of competitions where they're shooting multiple range targets, 25, 50, 75, and 100 yards from different positions, I see this more than anything. But I also see those in typically bolt guns and high-end 22s. I don't recall seeing a 10-22 out there with a 16 1⁄2-inch barrel in one of those competitions. I could be wrong. The other surprise to me was the Ely 10X, our most expensive ammo at $20.99 a box. Bench rest guys and precision target shooters, this is the ammo that I see more than anything. My first shot was right there, and I'm going, man, this is going to be pretty nice. And then I got four right in a row there. .416, this is not an embarrassing group by any means, but I guess I was expecting the skies to part and God shine down on us and put five shots right there in the center just because of the ammo. But of course, you have to take the shooter and the gun into consideration as well. Nothing wrong with this grouping. I was just thinking it was going to be a little higher up the ladder there. In seventh, poor boy special, FedEx, auto match, bulk ammo. I forgot the price. I just know it's cheap. And we got a .525 grouping out of that. I didn't even bother to, the Remington .22 target, you can see what it is, $449 a box. We just won't look at that anymore. The one thing about one of these ammos here, these were all lead round nose with the exception of this one, and this is a flat nose round. All of the ones that scored high were anywhere from 1075 to, let me see, this one's 1082 feet per second. Of course, these are 1070. And our number two, where's our number two? I can't even see. That was number two. Number three, the Elie Force, I think it's 1085. So all the ones that in our top three were between 1050 and 1080 feet per second. So you can see how those things are flying. So that's the results. You can see how the groups have tightened here as we've kind of honed in on what works good on our 1022 with a little 16.5 inch barrel. Your mileage may vary, but that's what it's done for us today on this range. So if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to put them down below. Don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe. That helps us continue to pay for this ammo and let us continue to do these tests. So until next time, you guys be safe, keep the muzzle pointed downrange, and we hope to see you out on the range. Adios.