Recently bought a couple bricks of Center-X from gunstore on my travels last month. Boxes were undamaged and did not appear to be tampered with in any way. I’ve bought many reloading components, powder, 22 ammo, centerfire ammo, etc from these guys without issue.
Was out yesterday rezeroing with my nrl22 rifle, was getting almost random chrono numbers, everything from 1100 down to just over 900fps. Typically I’ve been around 1054 or 1067 for my last couple lots of Center-x and they have had very respectable es/sd numbers.
This new lot is not like that at all. I put six boxes through my rifle thinking it was first a seasoning issue as I’d just cleaned my rifle, then I proceeded to check all my scope hardware (pic rail is interested into action), action screws, even rechecked barrel headspace and nut tightness. Nothing had moved or was loose.
My groups with this ammo were around 1.0-1.2” @ 50y from bench. Typically I shoot around .1-.4’s with this setup from bench and around half inch groups from props during practice.
Pulled out another box from different lot, shot ragged hole groups as I expected from this rifle. Put the suspect ammo into another solid grouping rifle from anschutz, same story, seemed like every third or fourth round had a random velocity, even had a neighbor at the next bench put it through his rim-x using a different Garmin, same results, all over the board and random speeds. Leads me to believe I might’ve gotten a bad lot or something. I’m just dumbfounded, Lapua has always been consistently consistent for me.
Guess my question is how do I proceed with this ammo that is subpar and what are my options or recourse with Lapua?
I could exchange the suspect bricks for store credit but I need the ammo for upcoming matches, both nrl22 and benchrest, so doing that wouldn’t help as match 22 is OOS everywhere.
Any advice would be much appreciated SF.
Was out yesterday rezeroing with my nrl22 rifle, was getting almost random chrono numbers, everything from 1100 down to just over 900fps. Typically I’ve been around 1054 or 1067 for my last couple lots of Center-x and they have had very respectable es/sd numbers.
This new lot is not like that at all. I put six boxes through my rifle thinking it was first a seasoning issue as I’d just cleaned my rifle, then I proceeded to check all my scope hardware (pic rail is interested into action), action screws, even rechecked barrel headspace and nut tightness. Nothing had moved or was loose.
My groups with this ammo were around 1.0-1.2” @ 50y from bench. Typically I shoot around .1-.4’s with this setup from bench and around half inch groups from props during practice.
Pulled out another box from different lot, shot ragged hole groups as I expected from this rifle. Put the suspect ammo into another solid grouping rifle from anschutz, same story, seemed like every third or fourth round had a random velocity, even had a neighbor at the next bench put it through his rim-x using a different Garmin, same results, all over the board and random speeds. Leads me to believe I might’ve gotten a bad lot or something. I’m just dumbfounded, Lapua has always been consistently consistent for me.
Guess my question is how do I proceed with this ammo that is subpar and what are my options or recourse with Lapua?
I could exchange the suspect bricks for store credit but I need the ammo for upcoming matches, both nrl22 and benchrest, so doing that wouldn’t help as match 22 is OOS everywhere.
Any advice would be much appreciated SF.
