r/canadaguns • u/Lumindan • Oct 04 '25

Get out and hit the range!

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I know folks have been pretty built up over the recent announcements, sometimes we gotta just put that down for a minute and hit the range!

It's ammo testing day for me!

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

What distance are them shot @? Some pretty good groups for sure

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u/Busy_Meringue_9247 Oct 04 '25

50 yards at stittsville

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u/AdventurousSmell9729 Oct 04 '25

Nice range. I go there pretty often

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

Nice shooting what ammo had the best groups for you? What barrel and scope you got on that rig?

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u/Lumindan Oct 04 '25

I've got the a Volquartsen 18.5 inch snake fluted barrel on it; it's been pretty good.

Scope is a 3-15 vortex viper (taken from a safe queen now); some random vortex rings I had kicking around as well.

The best groups were Eley Benchrest semi-auto and Eley Team. Eley Club was pretty close too but I had a few flyers (It's definitely just me pulling it, the rifle is not to blame). CCI SV wasn't bad, I didn't notice a huge change from CCI SV and CCI green tag, I'm convinced green tag is just a marketing scam at this point.

S&B Match was decent but I'm not buying anymore of it for two reasons, it's cheap as hell but also super dirty and I'm not going to support CZ/Colt moving forward.

Next week I'm gonna try some RWS in it.

All of this was shot at 50y, I had similar results at the 100y as well. The Eley Force stops working as well at 100y though from what I've seen.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

That’s a sweet rifle ya I was getting good groups out of cci sv in my 10/22 build I can’t bring myself to buy 13$ boxes .22 but could get my groups down to .26” at 50m and was happy with that

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u/Lumindan Oct 04 '25

Still cheaper then feeding some of my centre-fire options (6.5 CM hurts my wallet).

If your rifle likes the CCI SV, try Eley Club. It's cheap but I find the performance was just a smidge tighter, but that's only off of like, 200ish rounds from each.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

Ya I will try them out I just got 5000 cci sv but like spending 500$ a month on ammo to keep the stock up 5percent gdp lol

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u/Lumindan Oct 04 '25

50 yards in this photo, I took it out to 100y later in the day and it was still pretty comfy.

The farthest I've taken the rifle is 300yard; I usually like to stick to 50-100y though.

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u/unclassed Oct 04 '25

What flavour did it like?

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u/Lumindan Oct 04 '25

Eley Force and Semi Auto seem to run pretty well in it. Fed it some Team and Club which had good groupings.

CCI SV wasn't bad either.

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u/Scary-Detail-3206 Oct 04 '25

I’m in love that barrel fluting. Who is the manufacturer?

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u/Lumindan Oct 04 '25

I got the barrel from Volquartsen! It's currently my favourite 10/22 setup!

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u/0672216 Oct 04 '25

Stittsville?

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 Oct 04 '25

I was testing SK Match and it seemed to shoot very consistent for me. Grouped really tight too.

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u/Lumindan Oct 04 '25

I've used SK Match and HV in the past, I just didn't like how greasy it felt but the groups were solid for sure.

I wasn't getting great groups with SK High Velocity on this rifle though, 10/22 footprint do be picky. My Kidd rifle eats it up no problem though.

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Good to know, my Oryx chassis just arrived today, I'm coincidently putting together a 10/22 build over the next few weeks.

I do have a question—the Oryx chassis has a white washer holding in the main bolt, but my receiver won’t drop into the chassis with the washer in place. Is the white washer supposed to be removed from the bolt, or is it only there to retain the bolt in the box?

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u/Lumindan Oct 05 '25

I do have a question—the Oryx chassis has a white washer holding in the main bolt, but my receiver won’t drop into the chassis with the washer in place. Is the white washer supposed to be removed from the bolt, or is it only there to retain the bolt in the box?

I'd have to look at it again, I don't remember having a white washer, I just had a metal washer and action screws. Should just be flip it, drop it in, hold it up to the sky and screw it in while applying downward pressure (and whatever torque spec it is, 60lb probably)

When you're installing it, it sounds wierd but you need to 'face' the rifle so the barrel is pointing to the sky. This way the inletting will pull itself down as you apply pressure so that your receiver stays in place.

As for why it's not fitting, that's odd because my 10/22 dropped in without issue, it's a Volquartsen receiver but it should be the same footprint.

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 Oct 05 '25

I'd have to look at it again, I don't remember having a white washer,

I noticed that on older YouTube videos, the screw and metal washer come in a "parts" bag - no white nylon washer inside the chassis. However, mine came with the screw + metal washer screwed into a white removable washer in the chassis.

I'm 99% sure I'm supposed to remove the white washer since the receiver won't slide in otherwise - it's off by a few 5mm or so. The manual also does not seem to reference the nylon washer either.

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u/Lumindan Oct 05 '25

I just took another look at my rifle, I don't have a white washer at all.

So you should be fine to just install it with the screw and metal washer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

Nice shooting comrade 

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u/RelativeFox1 Oct 05 '25

Where’s the guys that say shooting 22 is boring. I would like to see their targets compared to yours.