Dale,
If it was long enough ago, Remington made some fine stuff, especially their Match ammunition. I have a little Winchester model 57 sporter that was my grandfather's and that I learned to shoot on at 5. As an adult, I noticed the trigger return spring had plenty of room in the middle for me to drop a carefully trimmed brass rod inside the spring's hole in the trigger to serve as an overtravel stop, and that made the little rifle a perfectly serviceable casual target shooter, as well as up to chasing down even small pests like mice and chipmunks.
One day, in the mid-'80s, I decided to learn what this simple rifle might like to digest by way of ammo. I went to the range with the usual suspects, plus a box of Eley 10X and some Federal match ammunition of that time (before they came out with the dimpled case ammo for the '92 Olympics), plus one ancient box of Remington match ammo from the '50s or 60's that I'd inherited. Everything shot the same 0.5" at 25 yards except the Remington, which cut that in half and moved me out to 50 yards, where it stayed under 5/8". I don't know what the magic was, but at some time in history, Remington really knew what it was doing with 22 LR ammunition. They probably had some legacy know-how that got dropped in an ownership or management change at some point or else simply retired out.
If it was long enough ago, Remington made some fine stuff, especially their Match ammunition. I have a little Winchester model 57 sporter that was my grandfather's and that I learned to shoot on at 5. As an adult, I noticed the trigger return spring had plenty of room in the middle for me to drop a carefully trimmed brass rod inside the spring's hole in the trigger to serve as an overtravel stop, and that made the little rifle a perfectly serviceable casual target shooter, as well as up to chasing down even small pests like mice and chipmunks.
One day, in the mid-'80s, I decided to learn what this simple rifle might like to digest by way of ammo. I went to the range with the usual suspects, plus a box of Eley 10X and some Federal match ammunition of that time (before they came out with the dimpled case ammo for the '92 Olympics), plus one ancient box of Remington match ammo from the '50s or 60's that I'd inherited. Everything shot the same 0.5" at 25 yards except the Remington, which cut that in half and moved me out to 50 yards, where it stayed under 5/8". I don't know what the magic was, but at some time in history, Remington really knew what it was doing with 22 LR ammunition. They probably had some legacy know-how that got dropped in an ownership or management change at some point or else simply retired out.
