Eley Sport is a target round, although it could of course be used for hunting (you could use Tenex if you were rich/mad!). However, they specifically do a hollow point .22lr round and an HMR Mach 2 round, either of which would be better suited to hunting.xcrunner8k wrote:from what i understand eley sport is not a target shooting round. i've never tried it myself, because i've only heard horror stories about accuracy.
correct me please, but i think eley sport is actually made by aguila in mexico. i shot aguila subsonic in my rifle when i first got it and it hardly held the 9-ring at 50 feet.
it is cheap though.
As for the country of manufacture, it depends where you are. Eley rebranded their line of products a year ago., This is their current range of target rifle ammo (made by Eley), in descending order of quality:
- Tenex (red label)
- Match (black label)
- Team (blue label)
- Club (orange label)
- Sport/Target *
* Sport in a green label is made in Birmingham, UK at Eley's factory. I use it for 3P training because it shoots straighter than I can standing.
In the USA, it is branded Eley Target (I believe still a green label), and they have licensed the "Eley Sport" name to a mexican firm, which comes in the Yellow boxes. Can't account for purple boxes with yellow stars.
For prone, we start novices on Club, and progress them to Team or Match as they improve.
For outdoor training or competition, I wouldn't use anything less than Match. For indoor training, Team is not bad.
