So I posted back in June/July, check that post to see the long story, but it was about a issue I was having with Factory Hornady 108 ELDM and having some Popped Primers in my Savage Axis ll in 6ARC. What I noticed is there is 2 different "Types" of factory ammo 1 with Silver primers that are "softer" and were the ones Poppin and the Gold primers that are "harder" and I never popped those. After contacting Hornady and them basically saying it was a Carbon Ring cause'n over pressure...even though I told them my rifle was clean and even sent them borescope pics of a clean chamber and bore. Hornady said it had to be the rifle and not their ammo. I sent what they said and everything to Wade over at Ally Munitions/Texas Predator Hunting and we came to the conclusion that after seeing that the Savage barrels rifling was Garbage, even though the accuracy was great, that mabye the chamber was cut like Garbage and not to spec which was cause'n the Ammo to start out at max pressure for the get go. The crazy thing is Hornady loads the Factory ammo to spec of AR's which is lower PSI then what can be handloaded to bolt action specs. So I decided instead of contacting Savage, cause I changed Bolt Handles to a Glades Armory one and them sayin somethin "I did" causing the problem, and sellin it to give somebody else the headache. I just rebarreled it. I switched it to a E.R.Shaw 26inch 1.0 Bull Barrel it's a 1:7 twist instead of the Savage 1:7.5 twist. And it shoots great! No popped primers yet and just as good or better accuracy. The Silver primers gave me 50-60 fps faster then the Gold ones and the accuracy with the Silver is better which is what I have the most of being that Rural King sells them for $21.99 a box. But I have noticed I get about 2-4 flyers with each box of 108 ELDM's, like mabye cause of the extreme spread? but not sure yet. So far so good.
Here's some 200 Yard Groups. Silver vs Gold Primers.
Here's some 200 Yard Groups. Silver vs Gold Primers.