Lapua Scoremax

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Lapua Scoremax

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Hey all,

I happened across a small stash of Lapua Scoremax in my collection and decided to take it out for a spin on the silhouette course. After making corrections to my clicks, I found the ammunition to shoot rather well.

On the Turkey line, I got the impression that it carried the animals a little better, and seemed to drift in the wind more consistently. For those who have shot this, did you see the same?

For those who are unfamilar, it is a 48 grain bullet traveling around 1040 fps.

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48 grains?! Strong medicine for a 22lr!
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Don't waste that on smallbore 1/5 scale animals! You don't need to carry the animals anymore than any standard velocity 22 ammo will. It should be used for the smallbore cowboy match. If you don't shoot that match, sell it to me and I'll use it for smallbore cowboy. :)
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Ha, I already burned up the entire brick. I've never had a problem with knocking down the animals with good hits, but the preceived wind drift did catch my attention. Still, it may all be in my head since I was not shooting paper from the bench, so the human element was in full swing.

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You must be rich. that stuff was 7-8 bucks abox of 50. such a waste of good ammo. I use it on coyotes around here.
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I'm not sure how silhouette practice is ever a waste of ammunition, and for yotes, a suppressed AR in .223 works much better. Out west longer shots on yotes is the norm.
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Well,

At the risk of offending anyone else who is cost sensitive, I did shoot another brick of the new Federal Ultra Match in similar conditions, and the more I think about it, the more there may be very little difference between the two rounds in terms of drift. The UM did shoot very tight - good stuff.

I have a few more boxes of the Scoremax left, and I'm gonna run it with some R-50 and Eley Tenex, looking for any differences. My current competition ammunition is Lapua Midas +, the new stuff, and I was hoping to see if there would be an interest in some 48 grain bullets loaded to Midas + standards.

My only concern is that to run the machines, Lapua would have to make a half million rounds just to make setting up the machines worth it.

Oh well.

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As far as I know they stopped making the scoremax ammo. Cant find it anywhere. I use the .22 scoremax on yotes here cuz its the way the laws here are. I hunt at night mostly and after dusk you can only shoot .22 RF no artificial lights either. during the daylite hours I use my .221 fire ball.
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