What Is ELEY bullseye pistol x and Who Is It For?
ELEY bullseye pistol x is ELEY’s round for dedicated bullseye competition. That is what it is for and who it is aimed at: the shooter whose discipline is bullseye, shooting the course of fire that discipline sets.
Technically, it is a .22LR target pistol cartridge with a round-nose bullet weighing 2.59 g / 40 gr, a velocity band of 268-292 m/s (880-959 ft/s), a maximum Radial Standard Deviation (RSD) of 7.00 mm and paraffin wax lubrication. Its bullet profile is optimised for smooth chambering and flawless feeding in a wide range of target pistols, and the round is tuned for stability, clean burn and balanced recoil, supporting fast target reacquisition and precise control over sustained strings. Those are the three things a bullseye string actually tests.
Specification
| Attribute | ELEY bullseye pistol x |
|---|---|
| Bullet profile | Round nose |
| Weight | 2.59 g / 40 gr |
| Velocity | 268-292 m/s (880-959 ft/s) |
| Accuracy standard | 7.00 mm RSD |
| Lubricant | Paraffin wax |
| Cartridge length | 25.4 mm / 1 in |
| Ballistic coefficient | 0.112 |
What “Tuned for Stability, Clean Burn and Balanced Recoil” Means on the Line
Bullseye is not won on a single shot. It is won across strings, and across strings three things quietly decide the score.
Stability is what keeps the group where you put it, shot after shot, rather than drifting as the string progresses.
Clean burn matters because a pistol fires a large number of rounds through a short barrel in a short time. A cleanly burning load keeps the chamber, bore and action from accumulating residue mid-match. It pairs with paraffin wax lubrication, which is thinner and harder at any given temperature than the beeswax-tallow used on ELEY’s rifle cartridges. Paraffin has a drier feel, is less prone to picking up debris, and does not clog a semi-automatic mechanism.
Balanced recoil is the one shooters underrate. Every shot has to be followed by a return to the aiming mark, and the more predictable and repeatable the impulse, the faster and more consistently the sight picture comes back. That is what “fast target reacquisition and precise control over sustained strings” describes: the pistol settling the same way every time, so your timing does not have to adapt shot to shot.
Why a Round Nose
A target pistol asks a cartridge to travel one of the shortest and most abrupt feed paths in any firearm. In a semi-automatic, the slide strips the round from the magazine and drives it up a ramp into the chamber in a fraction of a second, over and over. A round-nose profile presents a smooth, curved leading surface to that ramp and to the chamber mouth, so the cartridge is guided in rather than caught. That is why ELEY bullseye pistol x uses a round nose, as does every cartridge in ELEY’s pistol range, while ELEY’s patented flat-nose bullet is reserved for precision rifle disciplines.
Who It Is For
The dedicated bullseye competitor. This is the round’s purpose. Everything in the specification is written for a bullseye course of fire rather than for general target work: the round nose for feeding, the balanced recoil for reacquisition, the clean burn across a long string.
The club and county bullseye shooter. ELEY bullseye pistol x is designed to feed and behave properly in a wide range of target pistols, not just one specialist model, which makes it a sensible default for a club-level shooter or a mixed-firearm household.
The shooter putting in volume. Bullseye is a discipline of repetition. Training with the cartridge you compete with builds usable technique; training with whatever is on the shelf does not.
The shooter building towards the top level. Where the score demands the tightest published accuracy standard ELEY holds for a handgun, ELEY tenex pistol is the step up at 4.40 mm RSD, on the same round-nose profile and the same paraffin wax lubrication.
How It Is Made
ELEY bullseye pistol x runs on the same processes as the rest of the ELEY range: propellant measured electronically for each individual cartridge, a case mouth trimmed flat so the bullet is always seated perfectly, exacting crimping standards for consistent round-to-round pull-out force, and priming from ELEY’s advanced air-conditioned facility, which delivers a 75 per cent improvement in the spread of primer weights compared with other manufacturers. Every batch is proofed with 200 rounds fired across four different firearm brands to calculate its RSD.
ELEY ammunition is supplied in 50-round boxes, 500-round bricks and 5,000-round outer cases. Stockists are listed at eley.co.uk/retailers.
The Bottom Line
ELEY bullseye pistol x is ELEY’s cartridge for dedicated bullseye competition: a round-nose bullet at 2.59 g / 40 gr, 268-292 m/s (880-959 ft/s) and a 7.00 mm RSD standard, tuned for stability, clean burn and balanced recoil across sustained strings.
As always, the best ammunition is the production lot that performs best in your own firearm. Book batch testing at eley.co.uk/vip. If you also shoot ELEY tenex pistol or ELEY tenex rapid fire pistol, their published proof data is free on the Lot Analyser at eleyxshot.com, which now carries all lots for ELEY tenex, ELEY tenex pistol, ELEY tenex biathlon, ELEY tenex rapid fire pistol, ELEY match, ELEY semi-auto .22LR benchrest precision, ELEY ultra and ELEY club.