Thread: Sunday Arvo 22 ammo test - RWS

Recently I restocked with a brick or two each of RWS "Rifle Match" and "Pistol Match". With nothing better to do a bit of a Lot test seemed in order. Weather here is pretty miserable with intermittent showers, a gusty turbulent wind up to 20 km/h and 5 degrees. My shooting zone is in a wee hollow, it reduces wind but increases the turbulence.

I decided to dispense with the usual fouling shots, so the Rifle Match groups are cold bore. All groups are 10 shots from the benchrest at 47M (50 yards near as dammit). In these conditions I was happy to drop the odd shot from the measurement and call it "wind". However this grade of RWS is renown for "a surprise every box" so it's also likely the fliers are ammo related.

The real surprise ?? That the CZ didn't go to well with this ammo, usually it's top dog (hence it gets the top targets) but the old 1962 cheapie plain jane basic Krico 300 kicked it's arse (and everyone else's too!).

The M52 (Winchester Model 52) groups were shot with aperture sights and a dark tube of a foresight and they are bloody hard to wrangle in the low light conditions today, I'd say I could probably halve it's groups with a better foresight arrangement or a scope.