Gents ignore the aiming point graphics. They somehow got out of whack on the rendering of this one and I didn't catch it

Got a brick of this last week worst lot of premium ammo I've ever shot. Groups were all 2.5 MOA + with 20% extreme flyers from 50-200yards. SD was around 15 fps with an extreme spread of 54. I was curious so I weight sorted a few boxes. Weights ranged from 51.1 grains all the way up to 52.2 grains. Out of 3 boxes I only had 30 rounds at the medium weight of 51.5. In contrast Lapua Super Long Range generally gives me a weight variance of 51.7 to 52.1 with 85-90% of the rounds falling at the medium of 51.9. This first production lot of Eley Ultra might as well have come in a bucket and was an absolute rip off for the current price. S

Very disappointing of Eley to hype this ammo up only to find it being so inconsistent. No luck in my rifles. Thanks for your work and honest review.

Josh - thanks for doing this test. Based on your testing I will not repeat this test on my end. So sorry you had to waste $18 for this test.

Thanks for testing it for us, I will be sticking with match

Went to my range yesterday with the same ammo. My Vudoo 360 did exactly what yours did. didn't like it at all. Grouped almost identical to yours. Next up was my Anschutz 1710 competition heavy barrel. Almost the same results. I also brought my Anschutz 54.30 Benchrest gun with a Kelby stock. That rifle really liked it. 1/4" group at 50 and right around a half inch at 100. Have a match tomorrow, rain permitting, where we shoot 200 yards. I plan on giving that ammo a try.

My Vudoo absolutely despises it!! When it printed 2” at 50 yards I didn’t bother stretching it out any further. It’s the worst ammo I’ve ever tested by far!

Josh, Thanks for your investigation of this ammo. Pretty clear that it is some kind of hyped up ammo. Great Job!!! Thanks.

This is really interesting. First - thanks for the Education about the bullet type in the lot number. Years back you used to be able to look up details about your specific lot number online but unfortunately they stopped doing that (or I can't find where it's at any more). I picked up 2 bricks of that Eley Club just last week because they were only 6 dollars a box on clearance at Canadian Tire. The groups were almost identical to yours in the CZ455 factory barrel. The Eley sport aren't all that expensive but was able to shoot a 82 on the dayatherange challenge target and with the club It was 70. Curious to see if they shoot better on that Bartlein I'm having spun up but at that low price I couldn't resist. Think you just saved me a lot of money after a frustrating wait time for these.. thanks for the review.

Thanks for the info. I always learn something when watching your videos. I had no idea about the lot number meanings until you explained some things in this video. Though I don't really have a true target rifle my little 10-22 build really enjoys the Eley Match So I'll stick with that for my little fun challenges that I like to shoot. Thanks.

At $18 a box I would not be a happy camper with the performance of that ammo and out of the quality firearms that there is no question that can stack them on top of each other.

They used the other bullet because it has a noticeably higher BC, and that gives a better possibility of better long range performance. Match/Tenex are intended to be shot at 50 metres, and the flat nose was supposed to provide certain benefits at that short distance at the cost of BC. But since you’re shooting at such a short distance they felt the BC penalty wasn’t a big concern. But when you’re shooting at much further distances then the BC starts to play a much larger role in your results, and it then makes sense to use the bullet with the much better BC. It is something like 16.67% higher. That’s considerable. edit: That 16.67% figure was from a different calculation than I remembered. This was from an equation that ignores atmospheric conditions, and only gives you a rough comparison as a result. I've now gone back and done it again with Labrabaco, since I've now found my records from those test days that have all the atmospheric conditions. The actual difference in RA4 BC between five lots of Eley Tenex (100 shots each) compared to a single lot of Eley Club (50 shots) ranged from just 1.7% to 5.7%. Also checked a single lot of Eley Club Biathlon (50 shots). Round and lot #, then first number is RA4 BC and second is BC SD. Club 3122-30110: 0.110424 and 0.0051 Tenex 1022-03228: 0.10607 and 0.005756 Tenex 1022-02294: 0.108514 and 0.005846 Tenex 1022-02296: 0.106843 and 0.005546 Tenex 1022-04336: 0.107516 and 0.005901 Tenex 1022-06176: 0.104101 and 0.004641 Club Biathlon 3122-30152: 0.109813 and 0.00565 So the difference isn't as dramatic as I thought earlier, but is still consistently less for the Tenex style bullet compared to the Club style bullet. All else being equal the Club style bullet is going to be less affected by the wind. However, Tenex and Match tend to be more consistent in overall characteristics than the lower tier rounds, so it could be a wash anyway. But as far as examining just the bullet itself goes, the Tenex style bullet does exhibit more drag.

Thanks for taking one for the team Josh.....Lol!

It's nice to know before I go out and actually buy some. Thanks 👍.

Would have be interesting to see eley club on the paper with both rifles. I know, video can only be so long. Your guess on the speed seems to be spot on.

Whew, glad it wasn't just me! Great review Josh. Does the MW barrel out shoot your Voodoo in most ammos? Curious as I kinda want a MW barrel!

Even though very hard to find, my experience is that Lapua from LR, Midas +, up to Xact, to just buy without going to a facility and lot testing, is Always way more consistent than Eley match and Tenex. I’ve never had a “bad” batch of Lapua. Eley, well if it’s not Lot tested you’re likely to be very disappointed.

There is an Eley recall on this ammo. It appears to shoot well in Europe.

I'm glad that was bought with your money and not mine

Shooting up to 300m here in Germany on .22lr I mainly use SK Longrange Match. Best Bang for the Buck. I have tested RWS R Match Longrange, highest priced cartridge and in my Savage MK II not really accurate for the price it runs for. Midrange priced .22 LR cartridge is the Lapua Longrange and Extra Longrange. The Extra LR was more accurate. Eley Ultra Longe Range run for about € 22,- here in Europe, so close to the RWS mentioned above runningn at € 27,- per box. Looking at the fairly pour grouping on the first rifle you shot, I don´t the advantage of the Eley.

Good review Josh I'm glad you tried this ammo saves me wasting my money. It should be called Eley Ultra Crap. Cci standard velocity would probably shoot better.

I wonder what it's going to take to get CCI, Federal or Hornady any American manufacturer to get in this game? I have a few boxes of Federal Premium Gold Medal Ultra Match somewhere in my ammo stash I might try it one day in my RimX. I don't think I ever shot any in my Anschutz or 513 either and haven't seen it anywhere for a while. I built a barrel tuner one time for a Savage rifle and tested it and some other match ammo but only at 25 yards. If I remember Wolf had a decent match round I guess that's over with too.

Looks like I’m not alone - this stuff shot like crap for me too - just like club. My ES was 45 and average velocity was 1140 - 1150 on a 76F day with 47% humidity and winds 6-11mph From 50-100 it was about MOA but was 1.3 - 2.5 MOA at 200 I had the same issues with the flyers Super pissed for this price point and disappointed I bought 5 boxes - glad I didn’t do a full brick

Thanks for sharing this information. What were they thinking releasing this stuff. Do they test at all. 🤯 🇮🇪🍀💪

$26AUD a box in Aussie, lucky i only got one box to try, out of my 457 LRP with an IBI barrel it shot around .96 at 50, but at 100 it left me dumbfounded with averages of 2+ moa horrible, Eley hollow point subs at $12 a box out shoots it all day, for some feason my 457 loves this very affordable cheapish ammo almost more than match grade

Thanks for saving me some money. I’m not going to bother testing this stuff.

I bought a brick of this, haven't shot it yet, and hope to have better luck than others have been having.

Have not tried this but have tried over a dozen 22LR rounds thru my CZ 452 and it is choosy when it come to 100yd tight groups-less than that most shoot well. The iron is that CCI standard velocity shoots nearly as well as Eley does in this rifle…saves me a bundle.

To your point about bullet color it's curious its not silver colored when they do it for the semi auto benchrest precision.

Just seen a post on the Bergara BMR Micro Rimfire group on Facebook saying that Eley are recalling this batch...can't see confirmation of it anywhere though.

Man I'm so glad I didn't buy any of this ammo. Thank you for testing it for us. Seems like eley may need to rethink this one.

May as well buy cci sv, groups at least that well from my 457/ibi setup.

Just commenting.. I heard one fouling shot per inch. If doing precision work...grouping...make poi different to poa ..so poa doesn't get damaged.. removed..shot out etc. Having chronograph always running...and shown on screen, I would like to see.. Like your videos. Keep up the good work. Thanks.

I have a CZ 457 in a MDT chassis that I recently put a Lilja barrel on. I have been struggling to get it to shoot reliably in any way. I have lot tested several ammo's including over 15 lots of Eley Match and although I have been able to get good groups many times the next magazine may be horrible. I am trying to get below .3 at 50 reliably and am struggling. Any ideas? the last test I did showed great promise with 3 5 shot groups in the .2's and a 15 shot group in the low .3's so I ordered 4 more boxes for further testing and now everything is horrible with groups over 1" (almost all of them). The only major change that I can mention is that the first testing was in 95 deg high humidity and now it is 75 and nice, but if the weather makes that kind of change then I am done with the rimfire game and am going back to just centerfire. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, I almost feel like I got a bad barrel, I swear my factory MTR barrel was not this picky and am planning to put it back on at this point and see if I have any lots that shoot good groups.

I had just got a brick of SK Rifle Match thinking it was going to solve all of lifes little problems, and nope, not so much!😅 I've got one more rifle to test with, so who knows? Not always about the extra $$$😅

Good honest review again. Ah well, just not the ammo for those 2 rifles. I have a little 13.5" barrel Anschutz shooting 10mm groups @50m with Eley subs & cci velocitors . Out at 100 still sub moa. Just goes to show barrels are fussy buggers and a $1,000 barrel won't neccessarily be any better than a $200 one .

Eley has recalled the batch of Ultra you have

Man that is one beautiful rifle

Shot like a shotgun in my rimx. 55es over like 30 rounds.

I made a challenge called broad side of a barn as a joke for this stuff lol

Try only to see your results the cheap Federal Bulk Pack 36grains it works great on my CZ 457 varmint. For only $53 you can get a 525 rounds box I can get better results at 50mts.

That's so odd. I legitimately wonder what happened? Clearly something went "amiss" 😅 Seriously though. I wonder where it fell apart.

Josh, I just saw an announcement for recalls on the Eley Ultra matching your lot numbers. Check with them.

Have you ever tried Aria or Cutting Edge Brand Ammo?

I had the same results with this ammo. It's Ultra shitty in my match rifle. Wasted $380 on 2 bricks

Have you ever tested Aguila supper extra (high-velocity). I've used it for 50yrd bench rest and some 22 nlr matches with very good results.

Interesting, Josh. i was thinking it would do a bit better!?! my 457 shoots eley club better than that at 50 yards...or atleast as good! i have pretty much given up on Eley. for half the cost i can buy SK and have it shoot much better...

It shoots like target ammo, it doesn't say match. I'll stick with CCI sv for target ammo!

A friend gave me a box of Eley Tenex for my birthday. Didn't shoot any better than Aguila SV in my Win 75...

Thanks for mentioning Killough Shooting Sports. I'll check them out when I need to buy more Eley ammo. Does anyone have recommendations where to buy other brands such as Lapua, RWS, SK, and Wolf?

Well…you proved one thing for certain…watch your results before you spend a dime on any ammo…

The reason price now they earn more difference only a little bit more powder fore the rest same as club

I would pull some of those bullets and weigh the powder charges probably weigh the bullets while your at it ??

Do you weight sort your ammo or do you shoot the ammo straight out of the box, as it comes from the factory? If you don't weight sort, why?

I quit using eley anything about 3 years ago,.....so - more for the guys that like them

Please explain why Lapua don’t use a Scenar, SMK or ELDM type of bullet in their 22LR. These have a much higher BC but for some reason are not used?

Do you think on a cold 40 degree day they wouldnt be going supersonic?

I can't remember who but I watched another vid on this ammo and it was no better I don't know why Eley would put this out especially at that kind of price

Good Sir, I have observed this before........ IF....all else are consistent: Bullet weight & shape, powder charge, uniform rim priming........ then what I found was the bottom / base of the bass was not uniformly square to the center line of the bullet. That is, the base should not be rounded in any way, but consistently flat for each batch. The shape of the base of all brass must be identically flat and perpendicular to the center axis of the bullet. If not, this variance alone can produce a difference in the internal combustion of the powder, producing an uneven thrust behind the bullet. When I discovered this, I found a gauge that precisely measured the flatness of .22LR brass. I would sort my unfired .22LR brass into ones that had the same degree of bass squareness. The gauge would had a scale from 0 to about 8. When sorted, you put all the 3's into one box, all the 6's into another and so forth. Using inexpensive standard velocity ammo in my match Anschutz, shooting the same number sorted 22's performed the same as the best match ammo at the time. More than anything, this is a indication of quality control not checking for the uniformity of brass base, and keeping it within specs. Just thought I would pass this idea along to you accuracy Pro's. Thanks for the great vid! FMR Intelligence Officer

What are you going to do when you catch it? Accuracy that is.

No not so much. I’m gonna Stick with what works good for me

I dont like the way that Vudu bolt hangs up. You are always smooth in your cycling but for what you pay for a gun like that I would expect it to be butter smooth.

If you had an electronic marker...you could see if cold bore..fouling..actually made a difference...ie..include them in your results...or mark as separate..but enable comparison... Hope this idea is helpful. Ie all the data is relevance.

So they added some primer to eley club an reboxed it. Lol that's great.

You should reach out to a couple of the other guys that tested it and see if they have the same lot #’s. If not maybe do some trading and retest.

Your problem is obvious .....that ammo was designed for the cold wet UK . Works great here 😁

Not good results from the guys that I know that have tested. Still need to test the brick I got but doesn’t seem to look good

Bought 4 boxes of the Eley ULR from Killough. The Eley Contact performed better at 50 and 100 thru my CZ 457. At 200, the ULR was very disappointing. Won’t buy again unless Eley makes changes to the round. Sticking with Eley Team and Eley SABR

@Hazzbro didn’t have much luck with it either . I think that’s the only ammo I’ve seen that did not shoot well in the Modacam .

Interesting.

Looks like there are 2 distinct lots

Another word we can add to our vocabulary. Shottin. Where is the cold bore straw? Just ordered a box to try out. Bummer. Why aren't the Eley people listening to you about Silver colored slugs?

I hope the manufacturer stumbles upon this video and goes through the comments! Everybody's making it out to be on par with Remington Golden Bullets!😅

The batch available in the U.K. (3124-40022) is equally awful. It doesn’t group in any of my rifles. This stuff just doesn’t perform from 50m, 100yrds and beyond.

I stopped using Eley a long time ago for 22 Bench Rest shooting. None of it shot better than rs 50 or midas plus. Eley just likes for people to spend lots of money testing all their ammo. Give me a break. 😂

GIMMICK

Well, I won't be buying any of that ammo.

He, He, The 1000 yds shooting fad just reached the 22 LR. If the 22 WMR is about 100yds efective, guess with the new ammo, now the 22 LR is 200 yds squirrel and rabbit perfectI'v shot big game to 50 yds between the eyes and behind the ear(Back in the day Dad would hand me the old 22 and a handfull of shells, Go get Dinner). Guess now I can go Elk hunting

Ammo doesn’t even say Match grade ammo

?????

Well I am not going to buy any.

I won't be buying any

Crap ammo😊

I think it’s garbage

Garbage ammo ..........

I shoot 25 and 50 yd benchrest in the UK but I couldn't do with ammo like that, I use RWS R50 and for me it works brilliantly. We have rim gauged many types of ammo and R50 have least variations, Eley match the next, but some of the cheaper stuff can vary from .95 mm to 1.5 mm.