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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Higgins may be your best source for this.
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No, not this time. I have very little interest in rimfire target rifles for my own use. All of my rimfires are squarely in the "plinker" class.
Interestingly, .22 rimfire benchrest is the hottest thing going at my club range these days. Shot at 50 yards. I'm seeing some really, really outlandish setups being hauled to the firing line to be used in this competition. There are apparently several classes, just like any other competition, with the "open" class not really looking all that much like rifles...
What I can tell you about rimfire competition concerns ammo supply. These guys shoot up A LOT of ammo and, as we know, rimfire ammo varies a great deal from lot to lot. One lot may shoot well in your rifle, then the "exact same" brand and bullet weight from a different lot will scatter like shotgun pellets. I know guys used to buy a variety of ammo, test it, and return to the gun shop to clean them out of the brand and lot that their rifle liked.
Well, with current ammo shortages, they just cannot do it that way anymore. No one gun shop will have a case of .22 of the same lot that a guy can buy. In answer to this, some of the manufacturers of match quality rimfire ammo offer a pretty worthwhile service.
Lapua, Eley, and maybe others have programs wherein you can ship them your barreled action for testing. They mount it in their universal "stock" and fire different lots of ammo through it. They will choose the lot yours likes best, and sell you a case of that lot number. The benchrest guys do this, I might imagine that the NRL guys must as well.