different ammo for different animals.....

[boats]

Not completely relivent to silhouette rifles but. CLA rimfire rams are not easy to knock over. I use RWS Pistol match in my 39A, Rams fall slow and sometimes don't fall at all. After a match always some guy that tells me about high velocity ammo for the Ram line. Only thing is the guys with that advice are not hitting Rams or Chickens well.

My opinion not supported by any fact is rifles don't react well to switching ammo. Shoot wax lubed match ammo on Turkeys go to high velociy copper clad for Rams then back to match ammo on the Chickens is not a recipe for sucess. Best ammo is something that will shoot long runs without flyers. I would rather shoot 40 round 2 inch ram line groups than 5 shot half inch groups with "called flyers" as the round count goes up.

Boats

[OnaginOffagin]

Well, all I can say is that I matched my all-time best last week shooting Eley Red at turkeys (6) and rams (7), and then shot Wolf Match Target at chickens (8) and pigs (9). I'll probably continue this, at least until I run out of Eley....might try that Lapua X at turkeys and rams after that.....

I also read somewhere that Cathy Winstead only cleans her rifle once every thousand rounds (!). I'm not convinced that the difference in lubricants matches up with the differences in quality between ammo brands....

Besides, with a rag and a gentle solvent, you can clean most of the lubricant off the rounds before you shoot them....

[RBriscoe]

CCI SV shoots and chambers well in all my Factory barrelled Rifles. Need to test again with CCI SV at 100 meters in those rifles. In my rifle with the Lilja Tite Bore the headspace will not allow chambering CCI SV without extreme force on the bolt. My son will not put anything but Lapua or Eley through his Tumbleweeds Rifle. So we do not know if that rifle will chamber CCI SV or not. I know of one person with a custom barrelled rifle that is shooting CCI without difficult bolt closing. It would be nice to practice at home with CCI in my main Match rifle. CCI is by far the cheapest SV Match ammo on the market now that is not super messy. I would be interested in hearing the experiences of other folks with Custom Barrelled rifles and how much force is required to chamber CCI SV ammo?

Thanks,
Bobby R. Huddleston

How tight did you set the headspace, Bobby?

The other thing I remember about some green box I tried some time ago was that the forward edge of the driving bands of the bullet was much further forward than on the Eley I was shooting at the time and would engage the rifling much earlier in the process than Eley, but the chamber was cut to suit Eley specifically. Wolf ammo seems to fit my Eley chamber fine. Sadly, Wolf is not the bargain it once was.

It is not really surprising that a SAAMI speck factory would swallow the CCI ammo without difficulty as SAAMI spec chambers are enormous, even Anschutz ones.

Several people seem to be having OK results with Federal's "inexpensive" ammo, but I do not recall whether what sort of chambers they had.

Rick