Both. Which of the two applies depends on the product. For ELEY’s target range the answer is precise, and it is ELEY’s own wording: each lot is quarantined on its individual performance and sentenced to the brand by RSD. ELEY tenex, match and team are one product off one premium flat-nose platform, held back after manufacture and assigned a name by what the finished lot measures, with ELEY club as the parent of the round-nose range and sport/target derived from it. ELEY’s specialist cartridges do not work that way at all. Biathlon, pistol, ultra, contact, force, the semi-auto benchrest pair and the hollow points are individually engineered for their disciplines, with different bullets, propellant charges, case dimensions or lubricants specified from the outset.

Yes, and it is simpler than it looks once you understand that the ELEY range is not one ladder but two families. One family is graded: a common platform separated into products by measured performance. The other is purpose-engineered, its cartridges designed from the outset for a specific discipline, so they sit wherever their intended job puts them rather than on a rung above or below anything else.

ELEY ultra Gen 1 was released with the wrong Radial Standard Deviation (RSD) and the wrong bullet type. Gen 2 is the correct version , with the correct bullet type and the correct RSD performance. ELEY identified the discrepancy and corrected it, and Gen 2 is the relaunched ELEY ultra extreme long range you buy today: a round-nose 2.59 g / 40 gr cartridge with a published accuracy standard of 4.00 mm RSD, a velocity band of 317-330 m/s (1040-1085 ft/s) and EP2723 lubrication.

ELEY practice has been discontinued. It is not part of the current ELEY range. If you want an ELEY round for high-volume training at sensible cost without giving up consistency, the two cartridges that now cover that role are ELEY sport / target and ELEY club , both available in 50-round boxes, 500-round bricks and 5,000-round outer cases.

Yes. ELEY confirms that ELEY target is the same product as ELEY sport. One cartridge, one published specification, two names on the label. If you have been comparing the two, there is nothing to compare: a box of ELEY target and a box of ELEY sport carry the same round.

Yes. ELEY edge has been discontinued, and it was replaced by ELEY team. If you shot edge, ELEY team is the round that now occupies its place in the range: a flat-nose 2.59 g / 40 gr cartridge with a published accuracy standard of 5.50 mm Radial Standard Deviation (RSD), a 317-330 m/s (1040-1085 ft/s) velocity band and beeswax-tallow lubrication, sold in 50-round boxes, 500-round bricks and 5,000-round outer cases.

Box colour on ELEY packaging is branding: it identifies the product at a glance on a firing point. The one distinction worth knowing is that the red box is ELEY’s premium range , the iconic red packaging every target shooter recognises as ELEY tenex. Beyond that, colour is a label rather than a code: the information that decides how your next card scores is the product name, the published accuracy standard behind it, and the batch code.

Neither profile is more accurate than the other in the abstract. ELEY’s flat nose and round nose are engineered for different jobs, not ranked against one another. The flat nose is built for stability in flight over a 50 m precision rifle course; the round nose is built for smooth chambering and reliable feeding, which is what semi-automatic rifles, target pistols and high-volume disciplines require.

EPS stands for ELEY Priming System. It refers to the priming technology ELEY uses in its cartridges, not to a bullet profile, a case design or a grade of ammunition. If you have seen EPS referenced alongside ELEY ammunition and wondered whether it described the shape of the bullet, it does not: the bullet profile is stated separately as flat nose, round nose or hollow point.

If you shoot a semi-automatic and want a subsonic round built specifically for that platform, ELEY contact was engineered for the job: 2.7 g / 42 gr, 317-332 m/s (1040-1090 ft/s), 7.00 mm Radial Standard Deviation (RSD), paraffin wax, with a softer report, reduced recoil and faster target re-acquisition. It is extremely popular in dynamic shooting, both steel plate and practical, and is suitable for pistol or rifle. Kurt Grimes, a Grand Master in the United States, has won multiple world championships shooting ELEY contact.