This is Winchester hog special 123 grain SP 762x39 ammo. I’m shooting it out of my Ruger American Ranch 762x39 rifle. It looks to me as if either the crimps are crooked, or the neck was cut crooked. Thoughts? I’ve had some issues in the past 6 months with repeatability on shots. Which is ironic, because this rifle shoots Tula steel case and wolf steel case FMJ at roughly 2 MOA, maybe one flier out of 50. This Winchester stuff randomly has fliers and will regularly shoot 4-4.5 moa, not counting fliers. It seems that one out of every 5-6 shots is a flier with these. What do you guys think? Could this cause the accuracy issues?
Something does look off there, especially that last case.
That does look bad. I would contact the manufacturer if you have a bunch of it.
This ammo is prob a year and a half old though. Before the scare and all that.
I only have 2 or 3 boxes left, probably won’t use it again. I recently found 2 boxes of Hornady black, which is also roughly similar to what I’m prepared to load for once I get my reloading stuff set up. Same projectile at least.
Shoot Tula or wolf for supers. Brown Bear for subsonics if you have a can. otherwise reload.
Pull trim reseat?
I did a test with .223 and Tulammo was the most accurate with Hornady taking last place.
Funny thing is the Hornady 55gr bullet is what my gun loved most in my hand loads.
I removed all bullets from the different brands and brushed the necks and reseated the bullets and groups tightened up in all of the store ammo.
I would not think a crooked neck would hurt accuracy but inconsistent crimp will.
Maybe something I need to test out.
I wish I had 7.62x39 dies I would volunteer to tweak those factory rounds for free just to see if they would shoot tighter groups for you.
Funny thing is the Hornady 55gr bullet is what my gun loved most in my hand loads.
I removed all bullets from the different brands and brushed the necks and reseated the bullets and groups tightened up in all of the store ammo.
I would not think a crooked neck would hurt accuracy but inconsistent crimp will.
Maybe something I need to test out.
I wish I had 7.62x39 dies I would volunteer to tweak those factory rounds for free just to see if they would shoot tighter groups for you.
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