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@pnutty, the load looks good. try one test before you change primers - shoot the same loads that pierced primers already, and take one more click out of that gas block - take one click of gas out of it, reshoot the loads that pierced, see what happens. If that still pierces primers in those same loads, change those loads over to the CCI 41 primers and retest a few. A sample size that's large enough to either rule out pierced primers, or shot that it's still piercing primers with 41s in there. You might pick up some speed with the change to 41s, so be ready to record that info - but it's not as important as finding out if you'll pierce 41s. Side note - and I have not tested them yet, but will - Winchester took over the Lake City Ammunition Plant, they run it now. They are now making their own "CCI 41 Primers" at that plant, under their own Winchester name. I'm sitting on 5k of them, just haven't tested them yet.

Yes, you have to, or you have a small diameter-tipped firing pin in a standard boltface firing pin hole - too much gap around the firing pin, that way.

@pnutty, how is this gun doing, man? Just trying to check in and see if everything is still going well, or if we need to do more work.

Slickest scope mount invention I've seen in a long, long time. https://project47arms.com/scope-mounts/

^^^ What he said. Run Accu-Washers.

Now, there's a reason God didn't give me feathers, and instead issued me parachutes...

I need to try this with the Boy Cats...

That's a 5/8" muzzle device crush washer, right there. I don't know why it would be inside the receivers, though.

I like this guy, Doc. Everyone needs to watch this, before they vote this year.

That's not a Weaver base on that modern gun you just bought, it's a Pic base. Something else is going on there.

This has been out for years and years, man. If you've just discovered this, you've been under a rock. For a long time. Not slamming you, but wondering why you're just announcing very old technology... As some breakthrough discovery....

Gas, my man. Gas.

HELLFUCKINYESS we are...

I wouldn't advise it... You can pet this one instead...

Oh, that's a great .22LR, right there, brother. I love my little Savage FV-SR gun. You'll like it.

HELL YEAH!!!

We have a Bolt Catch Study here, right on the board. That might have saved you some time.

Yep, those blocks are only 6" square on the face. Those 500s were some fine shooting.

Looks DAMN GOOD, brother!

This is a really great video from Grendel Hunter, comparing the Barnes TSX projectile (the loaded-ammo version, Barnes TAC-TX and VOR-TX). It's the 115gr TSX projo out of 6.5 Grendel vs. the 90gr TSX in the 6ARC. They're running gel blocks at 100, 300, and 500 yards. The results are very cool, especially right at the end.

Hell of a nice attention-to-detail touch, yeah? Only other mount manufacturer that I've ever seen do that is Bobro.

That's a good deal on that gun setup, brother. You did well.