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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Has anyone tried the RWS stuff that reloaders sells.
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
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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https://youtu.be/2v3QrUvYj-Y
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.
'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.
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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