Good Lord

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Sapper...
No cronograph..
but for what ever reason and I don't think it was flinch but may have been but those rounds would not fly straight..I may have flinched at one or two but I fired a half dozen and I know I didn't flinch that many times..
I backed the loads down and my shooting went back to normal.
As for shedding jackets ,for my mini I used 55 grain brass jacketed hollow points and Ball C*2 powder...
The brass jackets were from expended .22 casings and reformed and filled with lead..
When the .223 round was formed it left segment lines from the hollow to the base ,maybe 8 lines where the brass folded as it tapered to the hollow point..
With fairly low velocity loads they were accurate and devastating to critters that needed killing,but with higher velocity loads would explode and disintigrate in mid flight...
I found this out on some uploads that I fired and it appeared that I missed and I could see no dust or debree from where the round should have hit and I could not believe that I had missed..This happened a couple of times in the first handfull of rounds..
So I set up a typical hand gun target ,around 8"x8" and fired at it from about 50 yds...
JEEZ...!!! No Hole...!!
As I approached the target it looked a little funny and I found out why....In the paper was stuck little pieces of brass and lead..like bird shot...
I didn't load them up as hot after that and they turned out to be a great little varmint and critter round...annoying pests of all kinds,if you get my drift....
Still got that hatefull neighbour that wants to get rid of your wonderful truck..??