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Interesting New Lapua

perry42 said:
Lapua biathlon 22 ammo along with Fiochi winter 22 ammo have proven to be the most accurate loads for my BSA International and Anschutz rifles. I will try the new Lapua Biathlon, thanks for the heads up.

perry42
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Your are welcome Perry, i am curious about the bullet and what they are using to coat it with.
 
Don't know anything about the bullet profile, but it looks like something designed for shooting in sub freezing weather. Lubes become problems at those ranges. Think frozen butter. I could see all manner of reliability issues from frozen lubes based on the amount of lube on most of the target bullets out there.


Similar problem here. I find myself living almost in sight of Canadia in the upper half of New Hampshire (there is still snow outside of my window as I type this) I have been looking for something to shoot during the frozen 2/3 of the yr and stumbled upon a primitive biathalon series. (Snow shoes and side hammer muzzle loaders) The point of this is that finding lubes for shooting black powder and cast bullets that work in sub freezing to sub zero temps is difficult. Even Bore Butter, that is the consistency of peanut better at room temp is a frozen block below freezing. Bullets frozen into loading blocks, bullets with misshapen meplats of ogives from solid lube,bullets frozen to the side of magazines. I would imagine that any of those are possible when shooting lubed bullets loaded in a warm room and carried out into temperatures in the single digits.
 
Please correct me if Im wrong, BUT, Biathlon shooters shoot at like inch targets, and most of us shoot much smaller targets, such as IR50/50, IBS ARA and ABRA , So is this ammo geared for that kind of accuracy ?
 
scott1119 said:
Please correct me if Im wrong, BUT, Biathlon shooters shoot at like inch targets, and most of us shoot much smaller targets, such as IR50/50, IBS ARA and ABRA , So is this ammo geared for that kind of accuracy ?
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It is geared for one in one all the same hole.. don't think that just because their target is bigger that they don't expect the same amount of accuracy you expect.. even Kevin Nevius will tell you that position shooters expect the same amount of accuracy as a BR gun!
 
scott1119 said:
Please correct me if Im wrong, BUT, Biathlon shooters shoot at like inch targets, and most of us shoot much smaller targets, such as IR50/50, IBS ARA and ABRA , So is this ammo geared for that kind of accuracy ?
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Get your pulse up to maybe 180 BPM then shoot your BR rifle offhand, you’ll soon appreciate why Biathlon gets a larger target.

Ammo is chosen on how well it shoots for the discipline (and maybe how spendy it is for the multiple-cases-per-season shooter) not from the size of the targets being used.
 
spclark said:
Get your pulse up to maybe 180 BPM then shoot your BR rifle offhand, you’ll soon appreciate why Biathlon gets a larger target.

Ammo is chosen on how well it shoots for the discipline (and maybe how spendy it is for the multiple-cases-per-season shooter) not from the size of the targets being used.
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I was simply asking a question, not putting any ammo or discipline down, I guess I need to keep my questions to myself, gezzz.
 
scott1119 said:
I was simply asking a question, not putting any ammo or discipline down, I guess I need to keep my questions to myself, gezzz.
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No it is fine that you ask.. maybe if it were posed in a different way.. but the point is, competitive rimire pretty much needs the best accuracy possible.. i have seen some P.B. put some Midas+ to shame..

Looking forward to seeing your 22LR!
 
scott1119 said:
I was simply asking a question, not putting any ammo or discipline down, I guess I need to keep my questions to myself, gezzz.
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Apologies to you.

What I was getting at is the disciplines are vastly different when it comes to gun handling but they both depend on consistent, accurate ammo. Biathlon targets are different from BR to account for shooting conditions, not because the ammo used meets a lesser standard.
 
spclark said:
Apologies to you.

What I was getting at is the disciplines are vastly different when it comes to gun handling but they both depend on consistent, accurate ammo. Biathlon targets are different from BR to account for shooting conditions, not because the ammo used meets a lesser standard.
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If at were in fact correct, would it not make some sense to see it shot somewhere in a mid to large sized BR match ?
I suspect this would be supersonic ?
 
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