With Federal, my rifle is operating flawlessly. I'm almost tempted to stuff some Rem Gold back into it it to see if things have improved... but why fool with something that works, eh? (grin)
A dirty 15-22
Since the previous range visit I had not cleaned the rifle (I wanted to see how dirty these rifles would still shoot) At the range yesterday, the rifle continued to perform well for about 400 rounds (total 950 since cleaning). Then the accuracy fell off a cliff. At a mere 50 yards, where the rifle had been staying on a 2 inch Shoot N-C using a red dot, the shots were now drifting in all directions 6 inches or so. I flipped scopes to a 3-9x just to make sure my red dot had not gone booger, but it didn't make any difference. No feeding issues. There were a couple failure to fires but they got good whacks (ammo related failure).
So... over a thousand rounds without affectiing action reliabilty is pretty good, IMO. And just under 1,000 rounds until the barrel gives up... though I was surprised at how abruptly it gave up. It wasn't a gradual accuracy degredation, it jumped from great to terrible.
