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Last month has been hectic, had to prep for the CMP Eastern Games at Camp Butner NC. Only managed to embarrass myself marginally. Did manage to get a silver in the sniper match. Finally loaded some ammo using 8208 (disappointing) and CFE 223 (promising) behind the 123 gr AMax at 100 yards. 8208 hovered around 1-1/4" using 27.5 to 28.5 gr in Prvi Partisan brass with CCI #34 primers. Only fired a single round @28.5 gr since the first round blew the primer pocket. I had no pressure indications until that point. The CFE 223 was much more encouraging. 29.0 grains @ 2340 fps produced a 3/8" - 5 shot group and the rest up to 30.5 grains (@ 2460 fps) were 1" or below. I will The interesting point was that when using 8208, the fired brass was almost too hot to handle while the CFE 223 was substantially cooler. I was fighting a 10 to 15 mph variable crosswind so there is hope.

Welcome aboard. PPU brass has been recalled. It's too soft, headspace was off with the shoulder on factory ammo. They had some good runs of it, then seemed to fall off last year with bad lots.

8208XBR is normally one of the main go-to accurate powders for 6.5 Grendel.