Yesterday I was minding my own business when I received a message that a delivery would be made and someone needed to sign for it. I thought to myself, "What makes you think I ain't busy? I have a lot going on, you know." and then I got back to watching "The Rifleman". 90 minutes later the UPS man knocked on the door and a case of CCI Standard Velocity was here! I think that the 40 & 45 gr. .22lr loads are "best" but I can also name many exceptions that are dear to me, most of them weighing 36gr. This morning I headed out at 6:45, fired a couple hundred rounds, made my rounds through the woods and here I am typing about it at 8:10. Life is good.
My target was a loser and not just because it shows my shooting errors. It lost it's stickiness and I'm not sure why. It was 30 degrees out, but that has never been an issue before. It's not THAT cold. Maybe it's old? Anyway, it wouldn't stay stuck. I was firing 10-round magazines of each load. I fired them while leaning over the hood of my car at 25 yards. I fired as fast as I could while "staying on target", so this is no test from a bench. It was more a test of the gun. I need to trust it in a hurry when I'm shooting things that aren't made of paper or metal. I would probably go to 50 yards if it were from a bench.
CCI's "Match" load is what they call "Green Tag". It is Standard Velocity that proves to be a more consistent lot. The difference between Green Tag and SV should be no more than "fliers" where the velocity increased or decreased. Bullet, primer and powder are the same. The few times that I have popped for Green Tag it didn't prove to be worth it. I don't shoot matches. I do not doubt that it would be worth it if I were shooting against someone else or against a scoring system. CCI SV is consistent, I would say even "very" consistent and I don't think it gets credit for just how quiet it is, even in unsuppressed guns.
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The second photo shows 10 rounds of the Federal Suppressor 45gr. load. I love that load and I believe it is the best of the 45gr.'s out there. The wide shots right and left were all me. That stuff shoots and thumps when it hits.
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Then I covered my holes with the black dots they give you to do such with and they fell off, along with the top half of the target. The second 10 round mag was the CCI SV and it shot just fine and a much tighter group than the 45gr.
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After the second mag I fired the rest and took this photo. The Stingers and Federal Punch are in the upper right. They grouped well, but hit in a much different place and that isn't odd at all. In the center are 10 rounds of Federal 510's, which is a 40gr. RN with a copper plating and 10 rounds of '80's vintage 40gr. Remington Golden Bullet solids. I did not load and shoot a magazine of the 40gr. PMC Zappers or 36gr. CCI Mini-Mag's. The gun is a shooter and any consistent load appears to have a consistent chance. That's good stuff.
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Since I was testing the new SV lot, I stood my old target paper up and put 40 rounds into it, 10 in each corner. The upper right was first and I was holding low. I held in the center of the small white circles on the bottom and I will run my scope down about 20, maybe 25 clicks. I took my time on shooting this and had a sturdy rest. The two fliers in the lower right are just that, as were a couple shots on the upper left, but the upper right and lower left show that "Green Tag consistency" ........or maybe I just got lucky?
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The nights and mornings are getting colder, but we are officially in Autumn now. Our daily swings will still be 60 degrees for a couple weeks, then 50, then 40 and so on until Winter comes. People are predicting a hard Winter, but we'll see. I would love for them to be wrong and have a light one but it's the weather and it doesn't seem to care what I think of it one way or another.
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Without a doubt, the upside to large lots of ammo is the consistency. It can of course go the other way and be found to be inconsistent, but that doesn't happen very often. I think that powders, primers and everything else is more consistent these days. We see negative results during times of "panic" when ammo can't be made fast enough, but I think that otherwise we see the consistency of this modern age we are in, whether it is in CNC machining, powder stability or primer "energy". Things can be more consistent now than ever before. That doesn't mean they WILL be more consistent, but the potential is there.
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I'm not sure if this guy had was interrupted while he was boning out this deer, but I don't think so. Everything is cut up just as you'd have it and the rib meat, which isn't exactly a prime cut, was left behind. The fat on the rib meat is valuable if you are living off it. Whether you call it "tallow" or even "schmaltz", it will add a certain amount of flavor and moisture to other cuts or in the rib meat itself, grilled or smoked on the bone or ground up into hamburger. It is amazing what beef fat can do for the lesser cuts of venison. Especially the rib fat. When the beef is cut up into sections/loins, a lot of fat is removed. When those loins are cut up into individual meals/steaks/etc. there is more fat trimmed. The stuff from the ribeye is best. Like beef, the best meat is in the back half of the animal. Elk doesn't need the help that deer needs and not everyone will see it the same. We all have different tastes. I make no bones about the fact that I appreciate the loin, back straps and a distant third would be the rear hams of a mule deer. I'm a city boy. My venture into cattle was getting into someone else's generational operation to see if my son would find a way with it. He did not and I am broken down. Cattle are a thing I look at from the road and a thing I buy by the loin or hamburger or whatever. I know a thing or two about it, but anyone thinking they can "get into the cattle game" in their late 30's with a busted back should be honest and admit what it is, a hobby and that they are playing cowboy. I was playing, but I always knew it. I hoped my son would become it, but that didn't happen so here we are. All hat and no cattle.
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This last photo is nearly(nearly......) as scientific as my test targets. That is the same deer chassis as the previous photo, 24 hours later. I don't leave me at to waste, but it really doesn't go to waste. Every nutrient from the deer goes back into "nature", be it our digestive systems, that of a turkey vulture or of an earthworm. It is amazing to come up on a rib cage that I could truly take with me and butcher and the next day it looks like a week past by. The sections outlined in red are your lungs and heart. Blue is over the spine, which is still there and the scapula, which is not. The green shows the liver, stomach and intestines. If you shoot too far back broadside, from the rear or from the front, you may displace a bunch of guts and poop inside the deer you are going to be pulling apart and that leads to some vomit. Sometimes scooping it out leads to vomit when the $h!t sack doesn't pop, but popping it ups the chances. Diagrams of deer anatomy may be found in books and on the internet. Actually getting your hands inside of them fills in the blanks and gives an understanding. The things you can learn by watching the animals drawn to a rib cage is worth a lot. Well, it is to me, anyway.
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How's my "formatting" @TexasAC ? You're right. Paragraphs broken up between the photos is better.
In the end, I think I need to get serious about a can that I can use publicly. This 10/22 Carbon Fiber is pretty sweet. Like any Ruger, the "hit and miss" quality of getting stuff out the door and dealing with issues on the back end makes sense to some degree when the business in question makes millions a year. I saw many "I had to send it back to Ruger" comments and a few "I hate it" comments when I was researching it months ago. I also saw many "I love it" comments as well. I'm happy to say........I love it. I have had a couple failures to feed with the S&B load, where the bullet hit the front of the magazine and did not chamber. Every other load has, so far anyway, ran like the proverbial top and there is already 1,500+rounds down the tube. Today is Day Eight of my owning it.
P.S. There is nothing "Czech" in this thread but it is part of my series that began with receiving a case of Sellier & Bellot .22lr. Not that the thread titles need to start making sense now or anything, but here I am puttin' words in between them pictures!!! Old dogs, new tricks and all that.
My target was a loser and not just because it shows my shooting errors. It lost it's stickiness and I'm not sure why. It was 30 degrees out, but that has never been an issue before. It's not THAT cold. Maybe it's old? Anyway, it wouldn't stay stuck. I was firing 10-round magazines of each load. I fired them while leaning over the hood of my car at 25 yards. I fired as fast as I could while "staying on target", so this is no test from a bench. It was more a test of the gun. I need to trust it in a hurry when I'm shooting things that aren't made of paper or metal. I would probably go to 50 yards if it were from a bench.
CCI's "Match" load is what they call "Green Tag". It is Standard Velocity that proves to be a more consistent lot. The difference between Green Tag and SV should be no more than "fliers" where the velocity increased or decreased. Bullet, primer and powder are the same. The few times that I have popped for Green Tag it didn't prove to be worth it. I don't shoot matches. I do not doubt that it would be worth it if I were shooting against someone else or against a scoring system. CCI SV is consistent, I would say even "very" consistent and I don't think it gets credit for just how quiet it is, even in unsuppressed guns.
The second photo shows 10 rounds of the Federal Suppressor 45gr. load. I love that load and I believe it is the best of the 45gr.'s out there. The wide shots right and left were all me. That stuff shoots and thumps when it hits.
Then I covered my holes with the black dots they give you to do such with and they fell off, along with the top half of the target. The second 10 round mag was the CCI SV and it shot just fine and a much tighter group than the 45gr.
After the second mag I fired the rest and took this photo. The Stingers and Federal Punch are in the upper right. They grouped well, but hit in a much different place and that isn't odd at all. In the center are 10 rounds of Federal 510's, which is a 40gr. RN with a copper plating and 10 rounds of '80's vintage 40gr. Remington Golden Bullet solids. I did not load and shoot a magazine of the 40gr. PMC Zappers or 36gr. CCI Mini-Mag's. The gun is a shooter and any consistent load appears to have a consistent chance. That's good stuff.
Since I was testing the new SV lot, I stood my old target paper up and put 40 rounds into it, 10 in each corner. The upper right was first and I was holding low. I held in the center of the small white circles on the bottom and I will run my scope down about 20, maybe 25 clicks. I took my time on shooting this and had a sturdy rest. The two fliers in the lower right are just that, as were a couple shots on the upper left, but the upper right and lower left show that "Green Tag consistency" ........or maybe I just got lucky?
The nights and mornings are getting colder, but we are officially in Autumn now. Our daily swings will still be 60 degrees for a couple weeks, then 50, then 40 and so on until Winter comes. People are predicting a hard Winter, but we'll see. I would love for them to be wrong and have a light one but it's the weather and it doesn't seem to care what I think of it one way or another.
Without a doubt, the upside to large lots of ammo is the consistency. It can of course go the other way and be found to be inconsistent, but that doesn't happen very often. I think that powders, primers and everything else is more consistent these days. We see negative results during times of "panic" when ammo can't be made fast enough, but I think that otherwise we see the consistency of this modern age we are in, whether it is in CNC machining, powder stability or primer "energy". Things can be more consistent now than ever before. That doesn't mean they WILL be more consistent, but the potential is there.
I'm not sure if this guy had was interrupted while he was boning out this deer, but I don't think so. Everything is cut up just as you'd have it and the rib meat, which isn't exactly a prime cut, was left behind. The fat on the rib meat is valuable if you are living off it. Whether you call it "tallow" or even "schmaltz", it will add a certain amount of flavor and moisture to other cuts or in the rib meat itself, grilled or smoked on the bone or ground up into hamburger. It is amazing what beef fat can do for the lesser cuts of venison. Especially the rib fat. When the beef is cut up into sections/loins, a lot of fat is removed. When those loins are cut up into individual meals/steaks/etc. there is more fat trimmed. The stuff from the ribeye is best. Like beef, the best meat is in the back half of the animal. Elk doesn't need the help that deer needs and not everyone will see it the same. We all have different tastes. I make no bones about the fact that I appreciate the loin, back straps and a distant third would be the rear hams of a mule deer. I'm a city boy. My venture into cattle was getting into someone else's generational operation to see if my son would find a way with it. He did not and I am broken down. Cattle are a thing I look at from the road and a thing I buy by the loin or hamburger or whatever. I know a thing or two about it, but anyone thinking they can "get into the cattle game" in their late 30's with a busted back should be honest and admit what it is, a hobby and that they are playing cowboy. I was playing, but I always knew it. I hoped my son would become it, but that didn't happen so here we are. All hat and no cattle.
This last photo is nearly(nearly......) as scientific as my test targets. That is the same deer chassis as the previous photo, 24 hours later. I don't leave me at to waste, but it really doesn't go to waste. Every nutrient from the deer goes back into "nature", be it our digestive systems, that of a turkey vulture or of an earthworm. It is amazing to come up on a rib cage that I could truly take with me and butcher and the next day it looks like a week past by. The sections outlined in red are your lungs and heart. Blue is over the spine, which is still there and the scapula, which is not. The green shows the liver, stomach and intestines. If you shoot too far back broadside, from the rear or from the front, you may displace a bunch of guts and poop inside the deer you are going to be pulling apart and that leads to some vomit. Sometimes scooping it out leads to vomit when the $h!t sack doesn't pop, but popping it ups the chances. Diagrams of deer anatomy may be found in books and on the internet. Actually getting your hands inside of them fills in the blanks and gives an understanding. The things you can learn by watching the animals drawn to a rib cage is worth a lot. Well, it is to me, anyway.
How's my "formatting" @TexasAC ? You're right. Paragraphs broken up between the photos is better.
In the end, I think I need to get serious about a can that I can use publicly. This 10/22 Carbon Fiber is pretty sweet. Like any Ruger, the "hit and miss" quality of getting stuff out the door and dealing with issues on the back end makes sense to some degree when the business in question makes millions a year. I saw many "I had to send it back to Ruger" comments and a few "I hate it" comments when I was researching it months ago. I also saw many "I love it" comments as well. I'm happy to say........I love it. I have had a couple failures to feed with the S&B load, where the bullet hit the front of the magazine and did not chamber. Every other load has, so far anyway, ran like the proverbial top and there is already 1,500+rounds down the tube. Today is Day Eight of my owning it.
P.S. There is nothing "Czech" in this thread but it is part of my series that began with receiving a case of Sellier & Bellot .22lr. Not that the thread titles need to start making sense now or anything, but here I am puttin' words in between them pictures!!! Old dogs, new tricks and all that.
