My No8 is a great shooter especially when my son uses it. Like some age and eyesight are starting to fail and that is very frustrating. My other Lee Enfield 22's shoot very well but can't hold a candle to the No8. It has not had a easy life from the looks of it but that has not had any effect on its accuracy.
Now the strange thing is the No8 has no problem with whatever ammo we feed it, high velocity, hollow point HV, standard velocity or subsonic?
We have never tried to see how it will group at 100 yards but shoot regular clays with it then proceed to shoot the pieces of the clays 'till they are too small to see.
Not to hijack this but my Cooey 82 will probably shoot as well as my No8 but again my eyes prevent me from shooting it that well.