New Savage 12 LRP popping primers with factory ammo
I picked up a savage 12 LRP in 6.5 Creedmoor and headed out to the range with my cleaning rod, rod guide, solvent and three boxes of Hornady 140 gr A-max to break the barrel in per the instructions on the Savage website.
I was a little hesitant about the idea of running a patch with two drops of oil down the barrel after cleaning--right before my next shot but I did it.
Anyways, I ran through the prescribed 50 rounds. Clean after each round for ten rounds. Clean after each three round groups for 5 groups. clean after each 5 shot groups for 5 groups.
During that process I had stiff bolts on about 15 of the rounds. I popped three primers and about 6 of the cases had indents from the ejector on the head--two them were pretty deep.
Is it normal to deal with pressure signs from factory ammo during the break in period? I stopped pushing oil down the barrel because I was worried that the oil was
bringing up the pressure. That seemed to help a bit, although I still popped one primer after I stopped using the oil. The last ten rounds seemed good. No pressure signs, no stiff bolt, no carbon blowing past the primer.
Was this just a normal part of breaking in a barrel?
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New Savage 12 LRP popping primers with factory ammo
Get on the 6.5 Creedmoor forum, this is more than likely a Hornady issue as it appears they have switched from H4350, due to the shortage, to Hybrid 100 or something similar and it has made the factory ammo in some cases to hot and sub par on accuracy at distance. Most are seeing vertical stringing issues with the newer lots of the match 140 ammo. I roll my own so I haven't experienced this personally, but quite a few on the Creedmoor forum have.