I just ordered a brick to try in my Anschutz Exemplar and I hope it does as well for me as it did for you. Thank you for posting the video it was very informative.

 

I just ordered a brick to try in my Anschutz Exemplar and I hope it does as well for me as it did for you. Thank you for posting the video it was very informative.

Pa Mike good luck, please come back and let us know how it does.

 

Enjoyed your vid.

 

Thank you Cc hopefully it is informative for you also

 

My Exemplar is going down to my gunsmith in N.C. to be drilled and tapped for the 20 moa MTD base I ordered. Once it comes back I'll have a chance to try the ammo out.

 

Good video. I'm surprised by how well it did! Maybe Eley did make some meaningful improvements to this round. Will be interesting to see more results as people start using this, and with different lots, etc.

 

Great review.
I'm glad as well to see some improvement.
This is 3rd hand gossip, but I was told that Eley is supposedly doing this improvement to all of the match ammo. The hope is that there will be less wildly inaccurate lot swings and will be more alike through the entire line of lots. This is supposed to have come from someone at Eley. Time will tell.

 

Great review.
I'm glad as well to see some improvement.
This is 3rd hand gossip, but I was told that Eley is supposedly doing this improvement to all of the match ammo. The hope is that there will be less wildly inaccurate lot swings and will be more alike through the entire line of lots. This is supposed to have come from someone at Eley. Time will tell.

In other words, they are going to start taking their QC seriously again.

 

It did better than I expected given what I had seen. I have a brick of Gen2 and will try it shortly as well.

 

I am afraid to try any different lot number LOL.

 

The lot I have is 2425-92145-1054. Now if weather and work would cooperate.

 

I was out today to do some preliminary testing of a lot of Eley Extended Range Gen 2 in my Anschutz 1761 MSR (stock). I did so here in comparison to Lapua Long Range. I will let the 100-yard folks deal with that aspect for now, and approached it like I would any ammo testing. I start at 50-yards on a relatively calm day. If an ammo doesn't perform well at 50-yards for me I have not found going longer helps. I used ARA unlimited targets as I use those a lot. The rifle was newly cleaned before the process began. I was shooting from a Bald Eagle Front rest and bag, Sinclair front bag rider with a Protektor #13 in the rear on a custom rear bag rider.

Note all the usual disclaimers. 1.) This lot in this rifle on this day did what it did, your experience may differ. 2.) There is a fair bit of lot-to-lot variability with rimfire ammo and this was just one lot. 3.) This rifle typically does not do well with Eley ammo, and it may be a byproduct of that in this case. 4.) Both lots of ammo used here were just ordered and shot as arrived. There was no lot testing prior. 5.) As I have a reference for Lapua, the price was about the same, and the target market is similar I compared it to Lapua Long Range.

Weather was 90*F, about 80% humidity. It was sunny and there was some mirage. There was a light, largely left to right wind of 0 to 5 mph. The wind was consistent though the afternoon. It was the same, or very similar, across both ammo types. No changes in temperature or humidity.

I started by shooting Lapua Long Range as a baseline. I shot two cards. My 1761 usually shoots around 2000 plus or minus a couple hundred on days like today. The 2 cards for today were 2000 and 1975. All went as expected. I believe there was one or 2 odd rounds across the 2 cards.

The Eley Extended Long Range Gen 2 did not fair so well for me. I shot 3 cards as I thought there was something wrong with my rig. There does not appear to be at this point. I testing with LLR after and it was fine. The Gen 2 ammo would string together 3-6 rounds into decent groups. However the POI would shift, sometimes gradually and other times pretty abruptly across 25 bulls. Scores Gen 2 obtained were 1315, 1325 and 1635. Whether this is an Eley artifact with this rifle or something else I do not know. While Eley claims if you are shooting 50 yards Tenex is still preferred Gen 2 should not be this different if it plans to go to 100.

There were a fair number of odd rounds in the travel across the 25 bulls. There were 10's with this ammo. LLR will occasionally throw a 25, but it is rare it throws a 10. This happened several times with Gen 2.

I have full video coverage of all of these, and will likely edit things together a full review later. A preliminary result is all his is intended to be at this point.

In sum, if it continues to perform like this for me (the rest of the lot) I will not likely try it again.

YMMV

 

Curious when you test like this, how do you find the new center of impact when swapping to the ammo being tested? In this case when you switched to Eley. It doesn't appear to be any consistent POI vs POA problem, so just curious the method you use to deal with two ammos not shooting to the same spot.

 

The sighters are used to get it set up with the new ammo. Each target.

 

Thanks for the test. You've saved me some money.

 

I did a quick and dirty (i.e., sloppy) video review as well. It covers especially what was posted.

 

From the Lot# I shot and the results I’m seeing here and on Snipershide, it’s looking like the Gen 2 is just as big a flop as the Gen 1. If a person is going to spend $20 a box you’re better off sticking with Tenex. So far with the results you can get sub $10 ammo that’ll shoot just as good as the new and improved Ultra Long Range.
I was really hoping the Gen 2 was going to pan out but I guess not.