Rimfire Madness: The Infection Begins

[gmcttr]

New rimfire goals...

.22 LR 1000 yards « Daily Bulletin

Not to take away from the 9 year old's achievement, but when daddy spends the ~$10,000 (???) on the equipment, sets it up, sights it in and puts me behind the trigger, I'm guessing I'd have a fair chance at hits as well.

 

[Areoflyer09]

Not to take away from the 9 year old's achievement, but when daddy spends the ~$10,000 (???) on the equipment, sets it up, sights it in and puts me behind the trigger, I'm guessing I'd have a fair chance at hits as well.

I totaled up 7k there pretty quick with rough numbers. You may not be far off the real total.

 

[Areoflyer09]

https://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/#/topics/1164365?page=2

This showed up over on RFC. A 22LR using small pistol primers instead being a rimfire. Lots of why questions to be asked, but maybe (for someone) the why would be more reliable ignition. Not sure the costs are worth that, but an interesting exercise.

 

[wtburnette]

Was out at MCF&G for about 30 minutes sighting in the new scope.

Best groups:

Didn't have time to go out to 100 yards, but so far I'm pretty happy with the results.

 

[CZ Top]

Saw one of these yesterday. Ruger 10/96. News to me, didn't know about them. But pretty neat! The stock looked to be much nicer wood and finish than the typical birch 10/22, might have been an older rifle.
Not smart enough to get a pic, this from the web.

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[WebSnyper]

Saw one of these yesterday. Ruger 10/96. News to me, didn't know about them. But pretty neat! The stock looked to be much nicer wood and finish than the typical birch 10/22, might have been an older rifle.
Not smart enough to get a pic, this from the web.

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Saw this info on a quick web search: http://www.nramuseum.org/media/364037/Nov-Dec 96.pdf

 

[wtburnette]

Okay, I was wrong. I measured again and the groups were more like .32, .32 and .38. The .25 was .38. Thought that looked weird...

 

[Areoflyer09]

Saw one of these yesterday. Ruger 10/96. News to me, didn't know about them. But pretty neat! The stock looked to be much nicer wood and finish than the typical birch 10/22, might have been an older rifle.
Not smart enough to get a pic, this from the web.

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Very cool and rare rifles!

 

[Gabriel]

Not to take away from the 9 year old's achievement, but when daddy spends the ~$10,000 (???) on the equipment, sets it up, sights it in and puts me behind the trigger, I'm guessing I'd have a fair chance at hits as well.

Your fundamentals better be good... but I get what you're saying. I'm pretty obsessed with longer range 22LR, but I thought my goal of getting out to 500 was going to be tough (I don't have enough MOA in my optic/base for 500 and might end up with a TARAC A if I can't find another solution and that gives me enough elevation).

 

[CZ Top]

Saw this info on a quick web search: http://www.nramuseum.org/media/364037/Nov-Dec 96.pdf

Ok cool, thanks. 96/22 Looks like manufacture dates from 1996-09 from Ruger serials. I bet it's fun, and from the 50 yd accuracy results from the Dope Bag review it's a good shooter too. Did I mention I saw it in a gun shop? Hmmmm.....

 

[Hookeye]

Wtb....just get some calipers and measure outside to outside and then deduct one hole's diameter.

 

[wtburnette]

Wtb....just get some calipers and measure outside to outside and then deduct one hole's diameter.

Yeah, I know. I'm still stuck on trying to do middle to middle...

 

[wtburnette]

Wtb....just get some calipers and measure outside to outside and then deduct one hole's diameter.

Okay, using that method, it's .33, .32 and .31 on the three that were the best. The one single hole I measured was right at .20, instead of the .22 I usually use when doing edge to edge.

 

[gmcttr]

Wtb....just get some calipers and measure outside to outside and then deduct one hole's diameter.

This works if you are using an actual hole's "diameter" and not the bullet's diameter. Measuring several .22lr holes by measuring the outside of the blackened area gave me measurements from .17"-.20" today.

 

[T-DOGG]

So how are groups measured by the "professionals" ??

 

[gmcttr]

I spent several hours at the range today testing more ammo and settled on sighting my Kidd 1022 based rifle in with SK Long Range Match ammo at 50 yards. I then figured my holdovers for NRL22 by firing at 25, 75, 90 and 100 yards.

I also fired SK Rifle Match, SK Long Range Match and Lapua Midas + over a chrono to find their actual velocity's through my 18" barreled rifle. I lost the data for SK RM but is was very close to the Lapua Midas + which averaged 1047 FPS while SK LRM averaged 1108 FPS.

Best 5 shot groups of the day...

SK Rifle Match at 50 yards...

SK Long Range Match at 50 yards while refining scope adjustments (shot counter clockwise from upper right)...

...and a couple of hasty SK LRM groups at 100 yards shot while refining my holdover...

I am very happy with the SK LRM ammo.

I'm starting to like this rifle.

 

[gmcttr]

Nice shooting as always wtb.

 

[T-DOGG]

Damn gmcttr, I'm impressed. Very happy to see those groups and to hear you're enjoying it.

 

[wtburnette]

Nice shooting as always wtb.

Same back to you sir. The .277 and .260 groupings are very nice!

 

[gmcttr]

The SK Long Range Match seems to be what that rifle was looking for. It came recommenced by a couple of other guys at the NRL22 match. It was the 100 yard groups that I put little effort into that really caught my attention.