I had a few hours to spare today and boy was it beautiful. The hurricane moved out and a cool sunny day followed. I took out my new Ruger SFAR with 20” barrel to see how it would do with my reloads and the 180gr Remington Core-lokt ammo which came with the gun. I ran a box of the Remington ammo, and only 5 of my loads. More on that to follow.

The Remington ammo did well for factory hunting ammunition. I got my best 5 shot group in a little over an inch at 100yds. My hand loads did right around an inch at 100yds, but I was only able to shoot 5. This gun has a very short chamber and as I found out today, if you do not trim exactly to 2.005 it will lock the gun up. I read about this happening to others as well. I have loaded literally thousands of this same load for my LMT MWS and never had a single problem. All factory ammo fired without issue.

I only plan to hunt with the gun so I am ok with buying factory hunting ammo for it. That will be a while as it came with 12 boxes of the Remington…lol.

The gun is lightweight, low recoiling, and handles just like my AR15 in 5.56.

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Mighty fine! Mighty fine, indeed!