Sommerled
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Please pardon this thread if it has been covered before, my search came up with nothing.
I was given a few thousand .224 LC 62 grain SS109 AP bullets that are moderately marked up from being pulled. I suppose it was from military rounds.
I loaded a small batch with once fired LC brass, 23.5gr of Benchmark, and CCI small rifle primers. They were seated to the cannelure and had a small crimp placed. The brass was properly sized and trimmed.
I fired them (twenty rounds) from the bench in a Rock River AR with 1:8 twist and decent optics at a distance of 100 yards. Negligible wind and the temp a balmy 23 degrees F. (Thats shirtsleeve weather for a Minnesota winter)
They were all over the place! You couldn't have covered the group with a large pie plate. (With 60 gr V-Max I get 3/4" groups with this rifle.)
Needless to say I was very dissapointed. My intent was to make blasting rounds out of them or even storage ammo for a "rainy" day. I would have been satisfied with 2 or 3" groups for such purpose but not 12-13"!
Any thoughts or comments about the accuracy potential being degraded by pull marks?
BTW Happy new year everyone!
Sommerled
I was given a few thousand .224 LC 62 grain SS109 AP bullets that are moderately marked up from being pulled. I suppose it was from military rounds.
I loaded a small batch with once fired LC brass, 23.5gr of Benchmark, and CCI small rifle primers. They were seated to the cannelure and had a small crimp placed. The brass was properly sized and trimmed.
I fired them (twenty rounds) from the bench in a Rock River AR with 1:8 twist and decent optics at a distance of 100 yards. Negligible wind and the temp a balmy 23 degrees F. (Thats shirtsleeve weather for a Minnesota winter)
They were all over the place! You couldn't have covered the group with a large pie plate. (With 60 gr V-Max I get 3/4" groups with this rifle.)
Needless to say I was very dissapointed. My intent was to make blasting rounds out of them or even storage ammo for a "rainy" day. I would have been satisfied with 2 or 3" groups for such purpose but not 12-13"!
Any thoughts or comments about the accuracy potential being degraded by pull marks?
BTW Happy new year everyone!
Sommerled