match chamber

[marshallpeacock]

I have shot benchrest thus the chamber is suited to my taste. I ask the value of a match chamber in a .22.i understand the problems of cheap ammo fitting thus practice is harder. after all this rambling I ask some one that knows for informed advice.

 

[Alan in GA]

and some of us even have 22 SHORT Match chambers! Winchester model 56 22 SHORT. Bullet actually engraves when chambered!
Probably an exercise wasted what with 22 Short ammo not really being carefully manufactured for matches,... I do have a brick of Fiocchi SM 200 Super Match 22 Short.

 

[marshallpeacock]

age + infirmity dictates my shooting to steal plates very little movement. thus my interest in match chamber for max accuracy.
always enjoyed bullseye and plates. matches went to benchrest travel, expense& transport heavy gear. excited to rejoin shooting under the conditions. love to practice thus must buy ammo that will fit matches using good ammo not a problem, its the practice ammo a problem

sorry for the rambling better next time

 

[marshallpeacock]

match chamber will it signify increase accuracy. will I be able to use some ammo for practice. THANKS FOR THE HELP

 

[Pat-inCO]

I get under one inch, ten shot groups at fifty yards with Winchester Silver
box ammo, from my 77/22. That is a standard production gun and even
with the production trigger, it seems quite reasonable to me.

But then again, if your interest is to tinker as much as shoot, have a ball. 8)

 

[Mobuck]

I shot military match rifles long ago. In a game of 0.0X" shot placement, a match chamber and carefully selected ammo was a requirement. Unfortunately, we had no "ammo selection" and shot what was provided. This left X-ring shooters and rifles with 9-ring scores.
I don't worry about such stuff anymore and find it amazing that the 22 guns and ammo I use performs as well as it does. If that match chamber works for you and you take the time to find the perfect complimenting ammo, there's some real potential.
My advice, if you do find that "perfect ammo", buy all you can afford and store it carefully as the next batch may not give the same results.

 

[Snake45]

You are on the right track wanting a match chamber in a .22. My own experience is that chamber tightness is of HUGE importance in .22 accuracy. My .22 rifles with the tightest chambers are the most accurate, and the ones with the loosest chambers are the least accurate. I have no idea WHY this is, but I can tell you that the correlation is just about 100%.

As to cheap ammo in a match chamber, I can tell you that I've never had any trouble chambering ANY .22 ammo in my tightest chamber, which is in an Anschutz bolt action. Now if you are asking if cheap or odd ammo will give you problems with a semiauto like a 10/22, then it very well might, and not just in chambering. I have an AR .22 conversion upper with a very tight chamber. It runs and shoots very well, but if that chamber gets dirty, the round won't QUITE go in all the way--it'll chamber enough to fire but it won't be fully supported and the case will rupture. You don't want to live through THAT twice, I assure you! :shock: I've heard of this happening with 10/22s, too.