eley ammo comparison

[Ltdave]

can anyone here give me a semi coherent breakdown of the differences between Eley Target, Club and Match?

the prices spread is anywhere from $5/50 to $15/50...

my daughter has been shooting Aquila (from CMP) for smallbore 3P and conventional prone and id like to bump up her ammo but thats a large spread in price with no explanation for that spread...

 

[cb1229]

I have used that ammo for 3p you will notice better accuracy with better ammo I use eley target works well for shorter ranges I've used eley match well if you can afford it get it it is so much better groups will tighten up and is so much more shot to shot consistant the tenex is the best but real pricey also you have lapua also sk and wolf and rws also find what works in your gun thats half the battle good luck hope this helped

 

[Fotheringill]

Eley Match is head and shoulders above the others named. Period.

 

[Flat Land Shooter]

I would suggest you go to the Eley web site and look at the specs Eley lists for the different levels of their ammo.
Rimfire is a world all its own, every combination has its likes and dis-likes and the only way to find what yours likes is testing.
I would suggest you purchase a couple of boxes of the different brands you are interested in, record the lot numbers and test in the conditions in which you will be shooting.
I wasted a lot of time and money testing what everyone said was the best, but it didn't shoot well in my combination.

Just my .02 worth.

 

[Kookie]

Target and Club use a round nose bullet while Match uses the flat nose bullet. The lubricant is also different on the Match ammo. The Match ammo comes off of the premium Tenex line and is downgraded because it did not meet all of the Tenex standards. I do not know the grading process for Target and Club, but Club is a higher grade then Target. I would expect the higher grade Match to be much more consistent, but you still have to test and see what performs best in your rifle. Large variations in accuracy can occur even with different lots of the same ammo, so when you find a lot that shoots good in your rifle buy all you can afford of that particular lot number. Only you can decide if the increased consistency is worth the extra cost of the different grades.

 

[Laurie]

Kookie's post is correct so far as I know. One benefit of the name / price following the grading is that if Eley has a particularly good production run or series of runs, you get the top grade product at a lower price. Conversely, I'm as sure as one ever can be about these things that the company wouldn't ever put the good product name on a poor production lot.

Eley always has been and still is committed to innovation and attaining the highest production standards, so it's a company that we Brits can rightly be proud of. It's been so ever since I started shooting as an Army cadet in the 1960s, and it'd been around a long time before that. It's won goodness knows how many Queen's Prizes for Industry and export awards, but such is the media and general public aversion to 'guns' here in the UK, it only rarely gets the recognition it deserves.

All the more credit too in that we've managed to destroy most of the rest of what was one of the world's largest and most successful firearms and ammunition industries in less than 100 years, or even since WW2. For instance, television reporting of British forces' operations around the world shows our guys regularly alongside or firing .50BMG M2 HMGs, but we lost the capability to make the ammunition for these guns a quarter century ago, the UK MoD not ordering enough to keep a single supplier's small production line going on even an occasional basis and refusing to pay a modest fee to keep it in storage or available. No demand for .50BMG was envisaged and we can always buy it if needed on world markets, so the machinery went to a Greek company at firesale prices.

 

[Fotheringill]

Kookie correct.

One or two clarifications-

Club and Target use a paraffin coating, I believe. Don't have it shipped to you in hot summer months, you may have a gooey surprise. I did.

As to Match, each lot number has a different speed and machine making it. A lot 5021 @ 1076 may shoot like poop in my rimfire and great in yours. That is going to be trial and error. It may even shoot great in YOUR Anschutz 1913a and poorly in mine.

 

[Laurie]

Here in the UK, Eley offers competitors the chance to testfire different batches on a private range to find which one suits the rifle best. Top smallbore competitors do this then buy 10 or 20,000 rounds of the batch.

 

[micmac]

Batch testing is limited to Tenex and minimal purchase of 5000 rounds .
Last time i did it they tested 23 lots on my rifle to get one with the best proformance.

Rimfire ammo of top tier manufacturers like Eley ,Lapua,RWS is not made in different grades but selected into different grades. Eley tests production lots at random trough their in house test barrels and depending on how the lots preform grade the ammo, selection process separates cream which ends in the red box from rest that ends in Black as lot testing can not cover every batch sometimes you get great batches that would normaly end up in Red box in black boxes ,same goes for Club and Sport.

 

[dickn52]

All ammunition comes down to consistency in my opinion. I can shoot any speed, as long as every round I shoot is the same. If I open a box of RWS and get 49 rounds of 1080 fps and one round of 1100 fps, then I can lose a match with that one shot. When you pay more you seem to get a more consistent round for the dollar. Don't know how they determine that other than really strict weighing of the finished products.