Famae sg542

[Tikkam65]

Ok so I want to know how many of us bought these rifles .
Lets see them . Is any one hand loading for this thing yet if so has any one tried reloader 19 in a auto loaders. This thing eats the brass .

 

[LordEvilPepper]

i own one,

you need a mild load, otherwise your cases will be totaled coming out of the gun. I had to scale back from 46gr of BLC-2 with a 150 SST to a starting load of 45 GN because it was bending the rims and putting holes in the side of the cases on extraction/ejection.
With the new load (had to pull like 500 rounds) it cycles a lot better and the cases are reusable now (case necks are still bent but meh). I haven't done a good accuracy test with the reduced loads yet

 

[Tikkam65]

That's why I ask I'm going to try a slow burning powder
like reloader 19 or 4831 sc I'm not using this rifle for anything over 300 yards so I will download 168 sst

 

[HeadDamage]

I've used some Varget with 175gr SMK bullets and it worked fine.