mikejay wrote:[quote="bladeracer"
I'm not arguing with you, as I stated, it was the first thing I found when I Googled it, I'm sure there are many other articles online if you want to read something else. I didn't post it to sing the virtues of the RPR, despite that being the gist of this thread.
But I haven't seen a plethora of people complaining about poor accuracy with the RPR, though I'm sure there must be some bad ones. I struggle to believe that I happened to buy three Ruger .22's that all shoot very well, and virtually identically, and yet all of them are wild anomalies. And I'm not even a very good shooter, there must be owners out there shooting _much_ better with their Ruger's than I can with mine.[/quote
The weird thing is, not one Olympic shooting event has ever been won by a rifle with the same build process Ruger use on their 22LR barrels. If you Google cold hammer forged barrels the advantages are that they're fast and cheap to make, and long lasting but the disadvantage is that they're not match grade or as accurate as other methods.
The standard or sporter chamber typically used in Ruger 22LR barrels is designed to accept as many different dimension rounds as possible, it's definitely not designed for accuracy.
Count yourself extremely luck that your three examples of cold forged barrels happen to to mated to three examples of sporter chambers that defy the limitations of their type, the odds are staggering.
Can I ask what rounds you rifles are using to get such phenomenal accuracy? I hope you don't say Stingers.
I don't judge any product based on how well it performs in the hands of people that are paid to use it
And I certainly do not want match chambers in my field rifles.
I am not the only bloke on the planet getting good performance from Ruger barrels, and I don't consider my rifles to be phenomenal shooters. With several types of ammo all three rifles will shoot _very_ poorly indeed, with the ammo they like, they shoot about as you'd hope any quality field rifle should shoot. I consider 1MoA at 50m to be good field accuracy in a .22LR non-competition rifle. 1MoA out at 100m is a very nice bonus, but far from phenomenal.
And my three Ruger rimfires are inline with the performance of my four Ruger centrefires, and my brother's. 243, and many, many other Ruger owners. I would suggest that rather than my winning the lottery every time I buy one, you maybe got the rare bad one. I don't blame you for hating the company for a bad experience.
Of the 75-odd types I've tried so far, the very best is SK High-Velocity, by a good margin. Unfortunately it was already discontinued before I got some to try, I only have maybe 100 rounds left, but it shoots easily under 1MoA. Second most accurate has been a tie between Eley Edge and CCI Standard Velocity, although Edge offers a more consistent group. At $1800 a case compared to $500 a case for the CCI, I just buy the Eley by the brick. I go through several cases of the CCI SV every year, as well as bricks of other ammo I bought for testing that doesn't shoot so great. I currently have nine .22LR rifles.
Stingers shoot poorly for me in everything, if I really feel the rare need to go high-velocity, I shoot CCI Velocitor for acceptable accuracy, but the CCI SV drops foxes just fine.