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Texas Sheepdawg wrote:All I am going say is that 1:14 twist scares the crap out of me. I just can’t get my head around it.
mcurbo wrote:My approx measurement from the front of the upper receiver to the gas block is 13-14". I am only using the Hornady Black FTX right now, but I am starting to piece everything together to reload. I just picked up another 100 rounds of the Hornady and while I have been interested in reloading for a while, the 450 BM has gave me a reason to start, so hopefully as I start learning about the ins and outs of that I can tweak my loads to make up for the twist rate (will probably be asking a lot of questions in the near future...). As far as cycling, I could be wrong, but it seems that the few times I have had an issue, it seems that it is not grabbing the rim and extracting properly. I believe one time it just didn't catch it at all, and the other it looks like it grabbed it thin and literally flipped the casing straight up causing a stovepipe. I just changed to the black follower, even though I felt decent about the feeding, and I won't know until tomorrow when I shoot it, but I may have made it worse since the rounds seem to be much higher in the magazine now and I do not like the nose attitude, plus now the bolt catch when empty is not working.
Bmt85, I have been collecting the spent brass since I am definitely going to try handloading. Tell me what measurements you want me to get, and I would appreciate your help in at least pointing me in the right direction for what I am going to use for reloads. Like I said, I am new, so there is a lot of learning, and I appreciate everyone's input and patience...
Mike
Texas Sheepdawg wrote:All I am going say is that 1:14 twist scares the crap out of me. I just can’t get my head around it.
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