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Mini-Palma is a fun game and was pretty popular about 20 years ago ... but the difficulty in shooting a rimfire at 200 yards killed off the game. This is the same reason the 200 yd smallbore matches were dropped by the NRA ... few were participating.
It's a shame, shooting an iron-sighted rimfire at 200 yards requires wind reading / sight adjusting very similar to shooting the .308 Palma loads (stout .308 Winchester loads using Sierra 155 gr. MK bullet).
I've had good results with SK ammo in my match rimfire rifles.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I would like nothing more than to see an upsurge in interest involved with long range .22 rimfire shooting. As things are now, and have been for quite some time, precision .22 rimfire benchrest shooters have sorta set the pace as to what .22 rimfire rifle manufacturers are putting out.
Benchrest .22 rimfire rifles need to meet certain weight criteria, so what we see most often are 16-18 inch, 0.9200 diameter barrels that try to emulate that requirement, and appeal to those who want to play along, but on a less competitive level.
I would love to see all the .22 rifle makers get into competition making reasonably priced target rifles, with good triggers and barrels so that long range competition can involve everyone from novice to experts without costing the same as erecting a new two-car garage. Then, some advancement would need to be made for a much better designed long range .22 rimfire bullet. Something like those involved with the .17 rimfire rounds that are more aerodynamically designed to zip along in a more stabilized manner. If a similar design of the .17 rimfire bullets could be done for the .22 rimfire, that might be a good option, though tooling up for such a project these days would be a costly endeavor.