Hi Folks I spent a great Sunday afternoon with my Sons and one Son -in- law We shot at 100 yards and ran about 60 rounds through the BCA upper, 18" barrel, nothing special about the upper, I have a feeding issue to work out this failure to feed occurred about 6 times . The empty was ejected but the next round was caught mid case as the next round was headed to the chamber. I was also using a drop in on top follower on top of a 223 follower , I am using a full rifle stock with a "rifle" style buffer so My thought was to take a weight out of it and see how it runs. Please add your thoughts !
the rifle produced some nice groups, I loaded some rounds with some IMR 4227 34.5 through 38. grains Starlite brass and CCI small rifle primer Hogden FTX 250 grain. I used Redding dies ( three dies set)
the higher grained loads produced a group of three touching and a group of two touching, with the third round,, about 1" away
the plan is to load the three recipes that seem to perform the best and head back to the range with those,
All he best !