.22 Practice ammo

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Hemmers
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Post by Hemmers »

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.
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.

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.
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Post by GOVTMODEL »

Mike V wrote:Then what is Eley Sport? They use that to practice on my daughter's team. Then EPS for matches.
With the decline of the dollar against the pound, the least expensive Eley product was above the price point they needed to sell. So Eley contracted with Aguila to put the Eley label on Aguila ammunition. Aguila has used the Eley prime system for years under license, so Eley was confident the ammunition would perform satisfactorily.

Eley Sport, in the USA, is an Aguila product.

EPS is off-spec TENEX.

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Post by PaulB »

Aguila also produces the 22CRN "low end" ammo for Fiocchi, priced about the same as Eley Sport.
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