Well I took my new Savage 12 BVSS .223 varmint rifle out on Sunday to break in. I am almost set up to reload and Sunday was just to get some rounds through it and get the scope more or less sighted in. I am going to use this rifle for target shooting mostly, and I deceided to do the shoot one clean routine etc. 5 times, then 3, then 5 etc. as the target crowd like to do.
Very time consuming, more cleaning than shooting. Anyways I was just shooting cheap Winchester white box 55 gr ammo and didn't expect much in accuracy. Once at 100 yds I would shoot and maybe two would be 1.5 inches apart then I would get one that would be 4 or so inches apart and it wasn't me. This happened several times.
The next day I was looking at my brass and found 5 cases with split necks down to the shoulder. I was thinking these may have been the wayward shots?
I fired a total of 40 rounds and 5 were split. I have never had this happen with new ammo before. The brass does look thin at the neck, if I put it beside some federal you can see a difference. Any thoughts on this much appreciated. Cheers Roscoe
Very time consuming, more cleaning than shooting. Anyways I was just shooting cheap Winchester white box 55 gr ammo and didn't expect much in accuracy. Once at 100 yds I would shoot and maybe two would be 1.5 inches apart then I would get one that would be 4 or so inches apart and it wasn't me. This happened several times.
The next day I was looking at my brass and found 5 cases with split necks down to the shoulder. I was thinking these may have been the wayward shots?
I fired a total of 40 rounds and 5 were split. I have never had this happen with new ammo before. The brass does look thin at the neck, if I put it beside some federal you can see a difference. Any thoughts on this much appreciated. Cheers Roscoe
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