40 rounds, no jams. Fairly accurate from my limited skills and efforts. That is, I only had a red dot w/ 2x magnifier and wasn't going for precision at this stage, but still got about a 2.5" group at 50 yards.
I was mostly concerned with the function of the rounds. Half of the rounds I loaded with 23 gr of Varget, the other half, 24gr. With 55gr FMJ-BT Hornady bullets. Both felt just fine and adequately gassed. The weird thing to me was, the 23gr ejected perfectly 90 degrees to the right, or maybe slightly to the rear. The 24gr rounds actually ejected forward, at about 45 degrees from the front, which is really irritating because if the brass goes too far forward down the line, you can't recover it. And I would think the more powerful rounds would be shot more rearward. I suppose it is possible they were ejecting rearward more, but deflecting off the guard and going forward.
One question I have is does anyone cater rounds based on how they eject? Obviously I know for serious accuracy it is probably low on the list of priorities. Also, other than slow motion video of your shots, can you glean much info from the deflection direction?
I have a brass catcher too, but for my first batch of reloads didn't want to use it. If I had any jams with my reloads I wanted to eliminate as many possible sources to pinpoint the culprit. Once I find my load I will revert back to using it.
I was mostly concerned with the function of the rounds. Half of the rounds I loaded with 23 gr of Varget, the other half, 24gr. With 55gr FMJ-BT Hornady bullets. Both felt just fine and adequately gassed. The weird thing to me was, the 23gr ejected perfectly 90 degrees to the right, or maybe slightly to the rear. The 24gr rounds actually ejected forward, at about 45 degrees from the front, which is really irritating because if the brass goes too far forward down the line, you can't recover it. And I would think the more powerful rounds would be shot more rearward. I suppose it is possible they were ejecting rearward more, but deflecting off the guard and going forward.
One question I have is does anyone cater rounds based on how they eject? Obviously I know for serious accuracy it is probably low on the list of priorities. Also, other than slow motion video of your shots, can you glean much info from the deflection direction?
I have a brass catcher too, but for my first batch of reloads didn't want to use it. If I had any jams with my reloads I wanted to eliminate as many possible sources to pinpoint the culprit. Once I find my load I will revert back to using it.