Cheap grades of Eley aren't any better than cheap grades of anything else. Where Eley shines is in their steely-eyed QC standards employed in the making of their high grade stuff.
I was gifted a brick of Federal Gold Ultra Match (OM-1) from maybe 20 years ago, along with a brick of ancient Eley Tenex (still in cardboard boxes). The lube on both bricks of bullets had dried up, and looked for all the world like oxidation. Undaunted, I shot it all up out of a bunch of different target rifles and it performed beautifully, as one would expect of that stuff. Nothing untoward happened inside any of the barrels either.
I would sell my soul for another stash of that Federal OM-1 ammo. Why oh why did they ever stop making it?
