From all I've seen, black box is a tad more accurate. There's a video by a guy on a site called "day at the range" who shoots all three of the TAC varieties for comparison. He comes to the same conclusion~!Is one more desirable?
Depends on the size of the bugbug holes at 10 yards ?
Like ALL 22s, your rifles are "selective" in what it likes (some will some won't). All you can do is try it.
My Ruger RPR 22 loves it. We are now paying $500/box in Houston.I bought a case of it. Arrived today. That stuff shoots bug holes with my Anschutz. The only other .22 ammo that shoots as well is the SK Standard Plus but that is impossible to find at a decent price.
Eley uses a special formulation for their primers that smells like super glue. Aguila used to use Eley primer material but no longer say so on their boxes.I am happy that mine likes the 12cent stuff ! As I only compete against myself and the breeze, I can delete the occasional bad load and claim no wind groups max an inch at 100. Best so far is 5x .62. If my .22 only shot well the match $$ grade ammo then I would sell it. When I first got the rifle I tried the expensive ammo mix out of curiosity and found one grade of Eley that shot dead on. But it stank!! Had a nasty chemical smell to the smoke lie burning nylon or similar . I grew up with the sweet smell of american .22 smoke!
I am putting a 6-18 fine hair Leupold on my Annie and going to try 200.
Ahaha so its the primer paste. thx! burning super glue at thatEley uses a special formulation for their primers that smells like super glue. Aguila used to use Eley primer material but no longer say so on their boxes.
My Miroku built Winchester 1885 loves it too~!My Ruger RPR 22 loves it. We are now paying $500/box in Houston.
There's a guy on YouTube called "day at the range" shooting all three versions od the TAC-22. Check him out. I think you'll find his video informative~!Is one more desirable?
Great response~! Love your imagination~!Depends on the size of the bug
The tac 22 shoots great groups at 50 yards in my Anschutz (.258 agg) and the Kidd10/22 .288 agg) but the Norma Match (aggs shown above) shoots lights out in both rifles. At 100 yards both ammo's will shoot groups in the 1-/12" range depending on the Oklahoma wind. We shoot clay pigeons placed on the 200 yard berm with the Tac 22 with a 75-80% kill rate. Cheap fun
Same here say 1 out of 10-15 are flyers with the Tac-22. Measured and weighed rounds with no discernible difference. The higher dollar stuff doesn't do this.I just received a box or Norma LR and Eley texex to compare to my T22 in my 1416 Annie. Now that I have the garmin life is simple. The velocity spreads of the 2 match rounds were tighter, no surprise. The T22 shot just as well at 100 if I could have discarded 2 or 3 shots out of 10! So fine for squirrels as you say. I dont do target but was curious.
Few things I dont get though: one is the fliers on the T22 were much wilder than the velocity aberration. I wondered it is was bullet weight so I weighed 10 cartridges of each brand and seemed to be all on par with eachother.
Secondly my rifle was zeroed at 100 dead nuts with the T22. But both the eley and lapua shot a few inches high and a few to the right, even though the velocities were not that far off from T22. Bullet shape? More spin?
You talking about the new Norma Extreme LR with the funny-bottomed bullet?I just received a box or Norma LR
Both my rifles tend to shoot high right with the higher priced ammo especially with any Eley ammo
No i have the regular LRYou talking about the new Norma Extreme LR with the funny-bottomed bullet?
David