Brought the Sp101 4" .22 out for the first time this season.
it has historically liked the Federal bulk 550 pack - 36gr high-vel.
My first group was pretty good - 2-3" range at 15yds unsupported.
But after that I could hit anything! I was lucky to be inside the scoring rings on a 50ft slowfire pistol target. What happened? I shot my 6" Smith .38 after, and did *much* better.
The SP101 has seemed finicky, and it seems to prefer the fastest, highest pressure rounds I can feed it. It absolutely dotes on CCI Stingers, but that's an expensive dish for a fixed-sight .22's everyday plinking.
Has anyone else experienced what they thought was variable behavior from the same box of ammo like that? it's not like the sideplate shot loose and the cylinder went out of time...
I've heard reports of single-sixes that prefer .22WMR - according to Ruger (I called them), the bore on the .22 SP101 is spec'd the same as the Single-Six. Does that offer some sort of heuristic for picking ammo more easily? I'm tempted to ream out the chambers for .22WMR, but then it won't be a plinker anymore...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Daizee
it has historically liked the Federal bulk 550 pack - 36gr high-vel.
My first group was pretty good - 2-3" range at 15yds unsupported.
But after that I could hit anything! I was lucky to be inside the scoring rings on a 50ft slowfire pistol target. What happened? I shot my 6" Smith .38 after, and did *much* better.
The SP101 has seemed finicky, and it seems to prefer the fastest, highest pressure rounds I can feed it. It absolutely dotes on CCI Stingers, but that's an expensive dish for a fixed-sight .22's everyday plinking.
Has anyone else experienced what they thought was variable behavior from the same box of ammo like that? it's not like the sideplate shot loose and the cylinder went out of time...
I've heard reports of single-sixes that prefer .22WMR - according to Ruger (I called them), the bore on the .22 SP101 is spec'd the same as the Single-Six. Does that offer some sort of heuristic for picking ammo more easily? I'm tempted to ream out the chambers for .22WMR, but then it won't be a plinker anymore...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Daizee