Post by picklehead on Jun 3, 2016 18:41:48 GMT -5
I was cleaning my junk up the other day and found a brick of CCI 450 primers that I bought a few years back when things was getting tight. I knew they would work in something if push came to shove back then and figured I would play a little. Ive thought and thought for two days about what to try them in. Had a brain fart and since VARGET fills a 223 case to the top if loaded at MAX,,, I figured this would be a good one to try.
We all know that MAG primers has a thicker cup and spits out more fire to ignite heavy charges of powder or that's what they claim. I know my CZ very well and started fairly low on the charge but not MIN like I should have because, I KNOW MY RIFLE. NEVER DO THIS EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOUR RIFLE.
Anyway, the first group sucked to me and had soot on the necks. The cases had already been fire formed to the rifle and neck sized, so I bumped it up a tad. Loaded 6 more and kept every thing the same. I shot three more back to back and looked thru the spotting scope. Something isn't right, was going through my head. Walked out and SOB,,, everything is fine. Heck better than fine and I stopped right there. I will test the other three rounds tomorrow at 200 yards. I wanted to run all six of the 26.3 grain loads but the shade moved in and cant see the tiny dot as good. Waste of time if you cant see right and made that mistake before. Fps is un known right now and didn't set the chrony up,,,,,, AFTER READING BIG JOES POST. I didn't even know where this load would hit,,, other than paper at 100. I bet its only around 2900 something. If its over 3000,,, id be tickled pink.
The rifle has shot better than good from day one and that's been about 10 years ago,, but don't shoot it much and got a wild hair to feed it, something different. Ive fed it Varget before but used 7 1/2 primers and Fed match. They done great but hit the sweet spot today and hope it does it again tomorrow.