my delivery from brownells will be here on xmas eve and then ill have a bunch of small primer pocket brass to try
i did inspect a few rounds today before i went out shooting and it seems like the winchester primers i used stick back out of the brass a lil further then the factory ammo primers in both the s&b and hornaday stuff
ive got another brick of cci #200 and #400 primers comming with that order
trying the cci's in the brass i have + trying out the small pocket brass is my next step
once i get my primer issues sorted im going to see if pushing those 123's to 3-3100fps or so in the creed is possible
and id like to see about 2650-2700 out of the grendel also if possible
other then that the good news is i shot both the grendel and the creed today at 300-625 yards all rounds on target on a 20 inch gong out of both , since we have our cows out in the field i couldnt stetch my shots out to 1500 yards like i wanted to
the bad news is my gong wont hold up to the creedmoor with the 123g bullets 1-400 yards comming out of the muzzle at 2850-2900fps
it did hold upto the 140g 2400-2500fps stuff just fine though and no issues with my grendel unless im in really close but im not shooting at the gong that close anyways
when i build the rest so i can have them spread out at 250y intervals ill prolly stack 2 plates per gong on the close up ones , i make them out of old discs off our disc harrow so i got tons of them laying around there pretty damn tough specially considering they are only an 1/8th to 3/16th thick
when my new creedmoor gets here ima be pretty dang busy lol