For rimfire benchrest and American Rimfire Association (ARA) competition, ELEY tenex is the most accurate ammunition ELEY produces. It carries a maximum Radial Standard Deviation of 3.75 mm, the tightest published accuracy standard in the ELEY range. ELEY’s own discipline guidance recommends tenex for ARA Unlimited, ARA Factory, WRABF, IR 50/50, PSL and UKBR22, with ELEY match as the alternative for ARA Factory competitors.

For ISSF and Olympic smallbore rifle, covering both 50 m prone and 50 m three-position, ELEY recommends ELEY tenex, with ELEY match as the alternative. For national and club target rifle shooting, ELEY club is the recommended round, with ELEY team and ELEY sport as alternatives.

ELEY manufactures two cartridges engineered specifically for biathlon and freezing conditions. ELEY tenex biathlon is the Olympic-level round, with a maximum Radial Standard Deviation of 4.50 mm. ELEY biathlon club is the club-level equivalent, at 5.50 mm.

Every .22LR cartridge is lubricated, and the lubricant leaves a residue. Understanding what ELEY’s lubricant is for, why different ELEY products use different lubricants, and how to manage residue is the difference between a barrel that shoots consistently all season and one that surprises you halfway through a card.

Temperature affects every .22LR cartridge made by every manufacturer. Propellant burns less efficiently as temperature falls, which lowers muzzle velocity and shifts the point of impact. Lubricant becomes firmer. Metal contracts, tightening the chamber.

Yes. ELEY batch testing is open to anyone, from club champions to Olympic medallists, at five test ranges worldwide. Each year hundreds of target shooters visit these facilities to find the perfect ammunition match for their barrel.

The number printed on the end panel of an ELEY box is the mean velocity of that specific batch, measured across four barrels during ELEY’s proofing process. It is not a nominal catalogue figure and it is not a prediction of what your rifle will produce. It is measured data from that batch.

Every firearm is different, so ELEY’s guidance for a CZ 457 is a starting point plus a method: try different lots of ELEY club, ELEY sport and ELEY contact, and let the rifle tell you which it prefers. Those three cover the work most 457s do: club and sport for target shooting and practice, contact where a subsonic round with a softer report and reduced recoil suits the shooting. All three are round-nose cartridges.

ELEY’s recommendation for a Vudoo is ELEY tenex or ELEY ultra extreme long range. A Vudoo is a precision bolt-action .22LR, so it gets the two rounds built for precision bolt-action work at opposite ends of the distance question: tenex for the highest accuracy standard ELEY publishes, ultra where the discipline stretches out to extended range. Because the action is manually operated and the shooter guides each round into the chamber, the patented flat-nose profile of tenex is entirely at home in it, with ELEY match the close alternative.

Almost always because of the product, not the batch. Lot Analyser coverage works product by product, and all lots are now published for eight products : ELEY tenex, tenex pistol, tenex biathlon, tenex rapid fire pistol, match, semi-auto .22LR benchrest precision, ultra and club. If the box in your hand is one of those, every lot of it is on the system. If it is a product outside that list, it will not appear, which is a coverage boundary rather than a fault with the ammunition or with your code.