I always used Eley subs in my Annie and they were clinical, then some years ago they went all to pot. I had long coorespodence with Eley about it but was not convinced. Some latter batches were OK then just crap. My son and his mate both with annies spent all day test firing a lot of Eley subs and chronoed all of the rounds. The velocities were all over the place and they could not get any decent groups. I still have the data some where.
Apparnetly if you go on to the Eley web site you can enter the batch number and see the QC data for all of the batch. Some I have seen is shocking. It used to shoot ragged 10 mm groups or less at 50 yds.
I found Magtecs were almost as accurate but sadly no longer available. I now use old batch Winchester subs and the ones I am currently shooting are silly accurate. On Saturday shot 2 squirrels at 80 m with them. They actually look all but identical to original Magtecs.
I have some original boxs of Eley subs from when they were originally launched and subsequent reincanations. Intrestinglty when you run the lot nos through the Eley QC portal you cannot find the batch data.
Bruce Potts did a very good article published in Shooting Times on .22 LR sub ammo and in this test Eley was the best. I do have a copy on file.
I always scour gun shops old inventories for old batch Eley subs or Winchester subs and use them in preference to any recently produced ammo irrespective of brand.
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