Ruger American Rimfire Long-Range Target Timney Trigger Quick Review and Ammo Comparison Part 1 

thanks! i would assume 1. because i haven't had much new content lately and 2. because i get pretty heavily shadow banned.

@@coreyd1474 Yeah, that figures .

not even close to worth the money

Thanks for the input. Yes as far as i could find this is the only video on youtube talking about it. I ordered 12 more types of ammo to test which should be here by the weekend then i'll get part two posted.

I think its safe to say that this gun would take quite a bit of work to get down to minute consistently. trigger, bedding, so on you could probably get there.

Have you found a good stock upgrade for yours?

@@Athletesperformance1 I have not, but I have used a dremel tool to sand off all contact points so the barrel is free floating now.

@@Athletesperformance1 I haven't really looked I kinda like this one. Probably buy a krg bravo if they make em for these tho

yea i wasn't able to find any other video either. a few people on some threads had one but thats about it. should have part 2 done this weekend.

i haven't owned anything that green tag has show well through. its actually a pretty popular topic of disussion on a lot of the comments i get and the majority of them say the same thing. i think we all wanted it to be good since 22 plinkster was pushing it but we forgot that they pay him lol

yea i keep saying it and its true this gun should cost about 300 bucks.

@@coreyd1474 I work for the UK NRA and we are about to get 5 of these for training. These cost the equivalent of $900 here. I will be interested to see how they perform.

How far have you shot it? I was going to do these tests at 100 but it was snowing too hard to see any further than about 75

I did something similar I to what you did as far as testing ammo, I was able to setup a little 9x15" AR500 silhouette I have at 100 yards. 5 shot group .94" using Eley Club, measured the group with ballistic-x.

@@chadwood4296 damn that's good! I'll have to pick up a few boxes to try

@Rex Trammell yes, mine has the 22" barrel. So far I've been really impressed with it.

thanks for watching!

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Thanks for watching! To be honest the more I shoot it the more I like it. I put the new 5-25x56 strike eagle on it and had it out last weekend using CCI standard velocity and it was clearing my kyl target almost every time at 50 yards

yea 22 really is a strange animal. when you get up in to the high dollar guns thast you start eliminating those flyers. I would have to see the .3 groups out of a lever gun, that's a little far fetched IMO.

thanks for watching! definitely the bergara b14r. great gun.

@@coreyd1474 thanks, I wondered if was still your favorite

@@TimBiagi absolutely is, i can't get my rimx to feed right and its pissing me off.

this rifle should cost about 300 bucks

Yea lapua sk wolf all seems to be the same with slight variations. I use hopps #9 also but it's down in the basement so I don't get any complaints lol

Does she have any sisters? ;)

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thanks for watching

It probably would help a little I'm sure

Yea I'm not quite sure what makes this "long range" and you are pretty much saying what everyone else is. They would have got it right with a Match chamber. Probably worth more around 400 bucks or so imo

Better options like what?

Tony H I think the savage mkii fvsr is a better option. It has a terrible stock but its cheap enough to get a Boyd’s stock to drop it in. The tikka t1x is around the same money for what u can probably buy this rifle. Cz 455s are still available for less Even the ruger precision rimfire is a better option. The aftermarket support is plentiful. I’d probably buy any of those over this rifle personally. Again just my opinion.

@@blakebeene8188 I know Tony and he's got an fvsr that shoots well and it's in a chassis. I actually have a Tikka t1x mtr and it's by far the best 22 I've ever shot. Also had a cz457 and it was so awful I sold it. Nothing can beat the Tikka IMO

Corey D yea I’ve seen your 457 videos. It’s a tough break. I have a 457 varmint precision trainer that I had to work on a little to get to perform. Unfortunately since the 452 cz has kinda lost a lot in the qc department. The 457s are suffering the same early fate as the 455s were when they were first launched. Rushing to release and qc goes out the window. I’d trust a 455 at this point over a 457. I own a tikka t1x and agree nothing is better in the price point. The biggest problem with 22lr right now is everyone is chasing accuracy that just isn’t really there. With marketing being as it is ppl are bouncing around from rifle to rifle looking for something they’ll probably never find. Everybody is looking for Vudoo level accuracy in mass produced rifles. I’m guilty as well. I wish I would have bought a Vudoo and bought once and cried once. Lol I’m still considering it.

People say a good 22 is based off how well it shoots cci STD vel lol I actually just ordered a Christensen arms ranger 22 and I'm super pumped to see how that thing shoots

No but from what I've read it doesn't affect 22s as much. But good point I'm going to shoot it without next time I get the gun out to see if it made any difference

You have some very nice 22lr rifles. My favorites. Happy shooting!

With this great equipment are you considering NRL22.

@@johngalt4769 thank you. I shoot 22 85% of the time so I don't mind spending a little extra on them.

@@johngalt4769 I would love to but they don't come close at all to where I live

yea several people have said that. ultra match and gold medal match but i think they stopped making that.

No you're definitely right like I said I wasn't making excuses by any means but it was cold snowy and shitty! Thank you so much for your input and watching it's much appreciated

bro, they're only pushing it because plinkster. it'll never be as good as standard velocity. you pay for the 100 round plastic boxes they come in.

yea its for sure not a match chamber. 100%

this rifle should be 350 bucks. said it a million times. squirrel gun, should not be labeled "long range"

no clue. been a while since i mde this

So what's the issue?

Corey D the gun. I had one & played hell getting it to shoot. 1" (2moa) at 50 yards may be ok for the plinker but won't make it NRL22 or bench rest

@@sgtjkm yea agree it should shoot better than it does for the money. I had mine out the other day at 100 and it was windy and cold but it shot force well. Be curious to see how it does on a calm day but that ammo is expensive

So in the second part of this review what I did was took a few different ammo types I knew would be fairly consistent and shot the fowling rounds with the chrono to get velocity then took it off for the actual groups. What I noticed was zero change in poi or accuracy so I just kept it on the whole time.

no i have not. i've never heard of it before?

@@coreyd1474 You can see the info on the Target Sports Ammo web page. Regards, Mike.

Thanks for watching!

so from my experience so far the american is better than the rprf. my rprf had tons of FTE and the american has had ONE out of a few thousand rounds. However, the tikka is by far better than both. i would spend the extra money on the tikka and a chassis IMO.

@@coreyd1474 preciate the info bro. i had my eye on the LRT then kept seeing the rprf and how easily adjustable it would be between various size shooters and decided to give it another look. ive also been looking at some CZs but i do want a decent scope too and the CZ takes that off the table lol

@@rimfiresniper5259 i put the new vortex strike ealge 5-25x56 on this and have been spending a little time behind it and i like it more and more. it was clearing my KYL target almost every time with cci standard velocity at 50 yards. still wouldn't put it ahead of the tikka though. i DO wish it had an adjustment for length of pull though.

@@coreyd1474 dude, noone within a couple hours drive of me has one of these and theyre out of stock online everywhere ive looked but as it so happens my favorite local ace hardware, where i buy 60% of my outdoor gear, had the rpr in for $369. it was just too tempting. so as youve already put together i now own it. tried to order my scope, because it too is not in stock anywhere, and i cant get it until like May 6th. geez! went with the diamond back tactical 6-24. so im mounting a bullshit barska ive had so long i cant even figure out where i got it or what i had it on while i wait. really dig the tikka and may end up with one yet. ruger holds quite a few slots in my safe and i just felt like i was bringing a cousin home haha. my daughter (13) wants to start competing so were really looking hard at nicer stuff now and trying to figure it out. my model 60 in the dragunov stock with a bipod and simmons scope and my mark II "sniper" rifle have reached their limits for us! look forward to seeing how my results compare. im really interested in testing it against what i have here including my 4th generation hand me down 1930s single shot springfield model 83 haha. dont laugh, okay you can laugh, but it holds its own!

you'll get familiar with it the more you shoot. they make basically the best of everything. center x has shot the best out of basically all my 22s and i have been using scenar bullets out of my 308 for years.

Hey Joe! Yea I live in Springfield and the last few times I chcked the nrl schedule there was nothing close. You know of anything?

@@coreyd1474 no I don't. On Facebook there is a group titled Rimfire Tactical and I thought someone mentioned that there are some NRL matched around Cincinnati. Dawg Valley in Covington, Oh was going to start up and had 1 match with quite a few shooters attending but they never went past that point. That was a couple years ago and still nothing. They have a lot of 3 gun matches so I imagine they are concentrating on that.

@@joesubler1169 never really understood the whole three gun thing but I enjoy shooting 22 more. You'd figure there would be a bigger market for 22 because it's cheap to shoot and you only need one gun but I guess not everyone feels that way.

@@coreyd1474 my thoughts are the same. I would imagine Thunder Valley has NRL matches but that's a 3 1/2 drive for me.

@@joesubler1169 I doubt they do. Really have tossed around the idea of hosting my own I have the space

the timney trigger is very nice, if money is no issue i think its a must. No on the stock i haven't really looked. its a fairly popular rifle so i'm sure there is at least a few options out there.

@@coreyd1474 There's options for the Ruger American centerfire, but not the rimfire version. I've checked Boyds, Magpul, Hogue, and a few others.

yea having had both the tikka is on another world when it comes to quality and accuracy for the price. they list this as 8 pounds bare rifle so and the rprf is listed at 6.8 so its slightly heavier.

Yea I would be severally surprised if it did but I have seen people talking about it. But like you said this is a rimfire. Another person commented the same thing. Definitely be interesting to see though

i like the rprf more i think it was consistently more accurate.

thanks for watching

i feel like i give each rifle an adequate amount of ammo.

@@coreyd1474 Yeah, I think you do considering that none of us are trying to be world class shooters. There comes a point when chasing "same hole" in 22LR can add up to thousands in finding the right ammo/barrel combo. For 99.9% of us shooters a CONSISTENT 1 MOA or less is good nuff.

@@justinfranks8222 yea i agree you find something that consistently shoots minute stick with it. i also enjoy the testing and seeing how good/bad something can be.

@@coreyd1474 I’m new to shooting .22lr “seriously”. Got the Ruger American Rimfire with the threaded 18” barrel. Took it out for the first time the other day and shot 100 rounds of CCI SV and at 50 yards I’m getting consistent .5” groups using a Vortex Crossfire II 2x7 with a bipod. I did torque the action screws to 35lbs before I went out. I’ve had the rifle for about 5 months and before firing it I had plans on upgrading the stock and the trigger and planned on shooting several brands of ammo. Honestly, I think I’m just going to stick with CCI SV and not change a thing. I haven’t had a chance to push it further than 50yards (my range has 300yard capabilities) but I’m excited to see how it fairs at 100yards. Thanks for the video!

@@ryanwilson5936 i think you'd be generally surprised with how beeter it wills hoot with an aftermarket trigger though.

no i agree with you, at least this one definitely isn't but like you said the guns you have are 3 times the price of this. either well still doesn't shoot as well as i figured it would.

thanks for watching.

whats the fps on that? isn't it like 780 or something super slow.

i believe its for the ruger american.

from my experience using a chrono on several different 22s it did not effect the harmonics. the groups were consistently the same with or without the chrono.

absolutely not

getting some good accuracy from it?

gotta get out when i can

Yea I'm not going to buy any more once I'm out of it, stick with CCI standard velocity

@@library_dork1321 all these were the "new" box style CCI standard velocity

i THINK its wood. has a slightly rough texture feels like a manners a little.

22 is definitely a strange animal. hard to pin down. i'm working on a new video now :)

or at least have some other options, a chassis maybe.

i BELIEVE those are the 1.26 pro series from vortex. i've since swapped the scope/rings.

you can get all sorts of targets off the 22nrl website. under the downloads section

not now, but at the time it was definitely on the high end. i WISH i could find stuff for 70 a brick

I THINK its wood but I couldn't find where they listed it in the specs. Feels more like fiber glass but I know it isn't. It's pretty nice though

definitely room for improvement

i enjoy it but not sure it's worth quite so much

Sorry it's so expensive over there lol I'd run guns to you aussies if I could lol

Yeah, I was just going to comment about when he said a box that cost $6 was expensive, thats as cheap as chips here in Aus.

i'll definitely try them! can you buy them yet?

@@coreyd1474 dont thank so seen them on 22 plinkster channel a few days ago

ruger makes them.

the only rws round that ever worked well for me is r50 and its super expensive. sk long range shoots ok out of my rimx at 200

its definitely nice, great feel. should be closer to the 400-450 price range though IMO.

a good 22 with consistent ammo will perform nearly the same in cold weather as hot weather.

or cut the MSRP in half would be just fine lol

wouldn't that classify as expensive still though?

@@coreyd1474 sorry it was supposed to also say here in Canada 🤦‍♂️ like in comparison on the same ammo .we get bent over the coals on guns and ammo there’s the conversion and then the mark up after import and then sales tax in my province atleast are 13%, RWS match is like 40 something for 50 rounds it’s really gone crazy since Covid and our communist admiring liberals tried to ban guns essentially and then put a carbon tax so everything that’s been shipped trucks, trains, boats, planes, so in the end it trickles down to the consumer

i thought you weren't even allowed to say the word gun up there any more without going to jail?@@Brentor14

some yes some no.

i agree this one was trash for the price but i liked my RPRF. already had a cz and it wasn't any better than this. b14r for the win.

meh...

@@coreyd1474 Pretty ordinary. but keep it up please.