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    Winchester 40 and 42 has turned to crap, cases with ripples, inconsistent velocities and dirty. Shame because I found it killed better than CCI but I am back to CCI now. Eley subsonic is very accurate if a little more pricey.
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    I made this up out of a 22 off cut, the top part of a lee 223 die that was stuffed. Works Well

    Hollow points, opening up and increase depth, works well
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    Quote Originally Posted by flock View Post
    I made this up out of a 22 off cut, the top part of a lee 223 die that was stuffed. Works Well

    Hollow points, opening up and increase depth, works well
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    Do you just tap the point of the 223 rod into the tip of the 22 bullet? Or what?
    I know a lot but it seems less every day...

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    Yep gently with a hammer, place bottom of bullet on a offcut off of 4by2 if the percussion part worries you, done heaps no worries. Would have loved a Walse die set up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc76Qa54U6Y but to hard to get into NZ

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    I just got given 2 pkts of USA 40gr .22 lr and went down to a nice sheltered spot and did 60m target.
    Failed miseraby. No group under 2inchs, 2 shots of ten were in bull rest floating outs side edge of a 2inch circle.
    Threw in 5 aussie 42gr for comparison.
    5 shots sub inch all in kill zone.
    Looks like got a full packet of winchester aussie ammo to find a replacement brand. Aarrrgggh

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    I will never buy Winchester products again after a crap batch of primers pitted my 308win bolt head.
    Experience. What you get just after you needed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    I will never buy Winchester products again after a crap batch of primers pitted my 308win bolt head.
    I had some Winchester M22 target/plinking shit a few years ago.lots of lose projectiles and squib loads. Took it with me when I moved house as to busy to take it to plod for distruction. Forgot it was fuckt and ended up having to take 6 inches off my 22. Other Winchester subs wouldn't eject ....... Their centre fires ok but their 22lr's been shit for a while.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    I will never buy Winchester products again after a crap batch of primers pitted my 308win bolt head.
    think thats bad, i bought some 7mmRM cases and 4 were unusable out of 50 brand new

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    Has anyone tried the RWS stuff that reloaders sells.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathanfish View Post
    Has anyone tried the RWS stuff that reloaders sells.
    Have used RWS primers for last 25 years, never had a problem with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flock View Post
    I made this up out of a 22 off cut, the top part of a lee 223 die that was stuffed. Works Well

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    I did exactly what you did except I squeeze them up in a vice. I fired a bunch of standard velocity and subs down the range last year and the standard velocity RWS solids I turned into HP's shot the best out of all of them in two different BRNO's.
    My HP plug is a little larger that the Aussie Win Subs - and they're getting up there.

    Takes a little while to do them, but worth it IMO

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    RWS Club shoot well in my brno. But they are a solid. I did this in a drill press using a bolt and the adjustable stop to get this result. Still to test for accuracy and kill improvement.

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    Hunt safe, look after the bush & plug more pests. The greatest invention in the history of man is beer.
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    Yip the Winchester subs have gone to the dogs, misfires, hard extractions, poor and very inconsistent groups and group sizes was really starting to think it was me. Fortunately I had a brick I bought many moons ago of the Aussie made stuff so I am now working through that. The recent brick I bought only creates a heightened level of frustration and makes the small game shy, but not dead. Will track down some of the Aquila or CCI stuff it sounds good.

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    'Oldbloke' - that tool of yours does a really nice 'flat point' - remarkably simple too.

    The one I made was like 'Flock's', except my HP plunger is made from a brass bolt that slides in the barrel rifling. I just squeeze them up until the plunger stops moving forward because it's flush with the barrel - they all come out the same.
    I started doing that because I was getting lousy accuracy with a lot of what I had, so I measured them (micrometer) and found some quite a bit undersize - so the hollow pointing was designed as much as anything to increase the diameter to chamber diameter (.225") - and it did that.
    What I did find was that altering the bullet profile did nothing in the most part - I was getting the same size groups after the process as I was prior - all I was getting was a bigger hollow point.
    There was some improvement with some brands - it did tighten up some CAC high velocities I had for over forty years which were already HP's.
    Every few years I'd bankrupt myself stocking up - and I still have a lot of stuff from back yonder.

    I think I started all that because I bought a couple of bricks of Aussie 40gr subs (Wincheter) and was a bit disappointed with accuracy - they didn't improve. But, within their limitations they perform in the guns fine and kill rabbits very well - just gotta be closer.

    Result of all that just showed an innacurate bullet is still innacurate regardless of what it looks like.
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    I should point out I had no feeding problems in the BRNO's changing the bullet profile - but an auto might be different ?

 

 

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