I did the testing exercise with Eley, RWS, Lapua, Federal, Winchester, Remington, and CCI in my 10/22, SW41, and Colt revolver and each had their own preferences. The 2 barrel assemblies of the S&W even had individual preferences. One common ammo that shot extremely well in all of them with tight groups was CCI. The CCI SGB loads were great, but were discontinued a few years ago. All in all the CCI MiniMags were the best for cost and performance. The MiniMags are also excellent on small game with a choice of hollowpoints or solids available. Poorest performers were Winchester and Remington. Accuracy was ok with the Winchester and Remington variants, but they suffered from a large quantity of failure to feeds and jams/extraction problems(revolver) in all of my guns. Prior to conducting my tests I had sorted all test ammo by rim thickness and the thin rims(.037") were mostly in the Winchester and Remingtons. Sorting the other ammo by rim thickness revealed that CCI was the most consistent - even more consistent than all Eley variants except for Tenex, and more consistent than all the other brands of imports. Even the cheapest variant CCI Blazer would pretty much sort to .040 and .041 evenly.
[This message has been edited by slickpuppy (edited January 05, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by slickpuppy (edited January 05, 2000).]