I can't get enough of the .22 LR bench rest. Keep it up. I tried a box of the Eley Team yesterday morning in my CZ 457 American 24.8" barrel, and it performed very well. It did not feed well using the single shot adapter, but it fed smoothly and perfectly from the magazine. Accuracy was great. I shot ten 5 shot groups at 50 yards. Five of those groups went less than half an inch. WOW.

Hey Day, I don't know a single BR shooter than I shoot with that loads from the magazine. With the soft lead/coated bullets there's a lot of potential to mar them/scrape the wax off inconsistently during feeding. Depending on the gun it may not matter but if you want to eliminate that variable then single loading does it. Given the fact you're shooting for accuracy with a front and rear rest off a bench you may as well.

How come no one ever includes Eley Biathlon in their tests -- I can't be the only person in North America who shoots the stuff? 🙂

As an Australian love that you got your hands on one of these fantastic rifles. My mates shoots Sk long range so much better than Eley.

Thanks Sarge!!

Hi great series of vids using the eley ammunition like to see you do the same series but using a cz455 or cz477

I have a few boxes left of Eley Target. It shoots pretty good but has never out-shot Aguila Super Extra in any of my rifles.

My marlin model 60 from Walmart shoots that well from 50 ? MUST be the ammo. Keep up the good work!

Try a different magazine when you have flyers like that, Eli. I see you have your rear Ransom rest set with two feet pointed forward. That's what works best for my rear Ransom rest also; it's the most comfortable for me and positions better on my bench. 👍

OK the tennis match and team have a different lube than the target in Club after you get the first lube out and put the second one in it settle down I believe club is above target not shooting though keep up the good work

Glad to see u shooting targets instead of showing matchs.

Savage Anschutz 1982 ,54 sporter, Eley club orange box,50 yards bench workmate with block with v notch. 4 round group spred 0.375 less bullet diam, mean 0.155, including flyer group spread 0.675 less bullet diam ,spread 0.455. Eley does work .

Haha....Sorry Elijah....but at the 8 min mark....you said Ransom West :). That all I have taken away from this video now. Just kidding...great shooting and I always look forward to your latest video. Cheers Tony Melb Aust

Eley Sport was the worst I ever shot through my Anschutz. I wouldn't even shoot an indoor match with it.

I'd love to see the same tests with your CZ. I shoot high scores with "team" in mine.

I'm thinking a machinists approach may be mindful here.. Maybe we could push a projectile down the bore for some exact spec measurments and with that info measure ammo diameters to reference which diameter shoots best??

My shooting buddies at the club were sitting around just jawing, and the topic of Eley ammo came up, It was interesting that 4 out of the 5 of us there have never had any luck with any Eley ammo except for their benchrest semi auto match in our 10/22s. Cyclops Joe has had great luck with it , as has Josh. Interesting test. I think you might be on to something with the bullet shape . One other thought... did you by chance install the bolt shims using Lapua/ SK ammo as your calibration ammo? I believe Eley can be as much as 0.012" less in rim thickness according to my local ammo guru. Would it be crazy to think a change in shims might dial the eley in ?

interesting groups

You should have done the fly target I like that

Have you shot RWS R50 or R100? It shoots better than Tenex or Match in my LA101, plus the flat nose on the Eley gets caught going into the chamber which the round nose of the RWS or Eley HVHP doesn't.

I see you sometimes having what I call double grouping where the shots want to go into one group or the other. In my experience that is the rifle and/or shooter. Something is changing with the rifle and/or shooter. There may be something different in the way you hold the rifle or the way the rifle is supported by the rests. I always shoot over a chronograph to see if there is a relationship between variation in muzzle velocity and impact point. Regarding chronographs, I had the opportunity to shoot rounds over two identical chronographs placed one right in front of the other so I got two velocity readings for the same shot. They were Caldwell. Readings varied by as much as 47 fps. for the same shot. For forty shots the average variation in readings for each shot from the two chronographs was 24 fps. I got rid of those and bought a LabRadar. Testing done by Bryan Litz of Applied Ballistics shows they are very precise. If you're ever in northwest Montana contact me and we'll try shooting 22 LR at 400 yards. Out at that range the most important factors are the variation in muzzle velocities and the variation in ballistics coefficients from shot to shot. The latter is the most important. How well a particular brand shoots at 50 or 100 yards makes little difference at long range. It's the above two factors that are significant. I have degrees in Mathematics and Physics and like to look things from that perspective. But it's important to conduct field testing to verify what the theory says should happen is really taking place. In most cases it does. I've been studying External Ballistics for the past 60 years. I've run on too long, I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks for all your work in putting them together.

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I think that I would remove that end cap on the barrel. I think that it affects the barrel vibration harmonics, and could change group sizes.

What app do you use to measure group size?

While it may be as simple as your Lithgow doesn't like Eley Team or Target cartridges, it may also be that the current production of Eley has gone downhill. The last Tenex I bought was awful and the guy who shot next to me this past Saturday had multiple fliers with Eley Match. I used Lapua Center-X and scored a 500-24X on the IBS target, placing second. The winner shot a 500-32X, also with Center-X. Eley seems to have lost favor with the benchrest crowd as SK and Lapua are dominating.

I don`t think that Lithy likes Eley that much. Kind of curious to see how the Eley Club does.

Joe gets great groups with that ammo because he's shooting 40" circles, that way all his one eyed midget chasing groups look great...lol 🤣

Lithgow really?

That gun is a turd. They can keep that aussie junk. I don't own a 22 that shoots that bad.