Rimfire ammo.. Eley??

I have been thinking

A lad may be better off to first explore lots of Team and if none of them work then go to Match. No way would I pay the big dollars for Red unless I couldn't find anything else that worked. Considering that it all comes out of the same machines, eh
 
bigredplane said:
Hambone

Do you know if any of the good ammo makers don't use glass in there priming compound?

Scott
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Like Coca Cola,and Colonel Sanders .22 target ammunition manufactures like keep such secrets to their particular winning formula firmly in house.

Even Eleys patented liquid primer loading process contains ground glass,
 
Pete Wass said:
A lad may be better off to first explore lots of Team and if none of them work then go to Match. No way would I pay the big dollars for Red unless I couldn't find anything else that worked. Considering that it all comes out of the same machines, eh
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Pete

Sound advice and the most economic.
 
Years ago I was told by what I consider an informed source that red, black and a couple othercolors of Eley ammo was all the same stuff made on the same machines with the same components and processes. They labeled the boxes depending on what they needed from a sales and marketing demand. They had a market for expensive, not so expensive, and somewhat cheaper ammo and they could manufacture for all three markets without having to stop runs, switch components, etc. The same source said Lapua Midas, Multimatch, and others were maufactured the same way.
I have no way to know for sure but I believed him then (12-14 years ago) since he was in a position to know (I know he has been in both the Eley and Lapua production facilities) and I think I believe it still. I could never see a difference in the way Lapua Midas and Multimatch shot and the same with Eley red and black box ammo.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Dave
 
Considering that I cannot re-load .22LR, then I really don't care about the process that produces it or the ingredients. I only care about performance. It is the score on the target and the end of the match.

Carp
 
Burtona-The ammo would have to be produced and placed in large containers prior to testing. When it was decided if it is red, black or blue than it would be packaged in 50s/500s/5000s.


So when shooters get tried of paying the high price for X-act and Red box-then what?? Will they just quite making it?? Will all red box then be black etc etc. and everything be downgraded? Actually that would be an upgrading.
 
langenc said:
Burtona-The ammo would have to be produced and placed in large containers prior to testing. When it was decided if it is red, black or blue than it would be packaged in 50s/500s/5000s.


So when shooters get tried of paying the high price for X-act and Red box-then what?? Will they just quite making it?? Will all red box then be black etc etc. and everything be downgraded? Actually that would be an upgrading.
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You assume it's tested before a grade decision is made. I don't know if that's true or not. That's why I asked the question about the process from someone who has actually seen it.
 
I have not seen it but how would it work if it was packaged red box and then didnt meet spcs.. Unbox it and make it Black or Blue... I doubt it.

I guess I have not seen Red or Blue. Are the packages, not labels, different than Black
 
They make it and box it in batches. After testing they can tell which label to put on the boxes, then package it.

At least, that could be how they do it.


Jim
 
That would work if boxes are all the same-and most likely are.

I have some Club or whatever and it is in black plastic boxes.
 
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