si brown 8,486 Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 10 hours ago, bumpy22 said: Had a 223 years ago. But just use my hmr and 243 for everything for the last ten years or so. But bought a 223again this week so now need to develop a load for it. Only reason being is noise and I want to leave my drone on it permanently. Luckily I have stocked up on bullets for 243. Just need to try and sort a round for 223. Mates got some 53gn vmax to try first This was my mix for a 1-12 .223 worked well with these and nosler 55gn ballistic tips.. Both clovered at 100 4 Quote Link to post
bumpy22 414 Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 2 hours ago, David.evans said: Bumpy what powder you got for the 223 Atb None yet David. Mates got some vhit and another mate is sung ramshor tac. I am waiting on moderator to turn up next week then it will be a trip to see what's available readily David Quote Link to post
Sausagedog 7,381 Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 2 hours ago, si brown said: This was my mix for a 1-12 .223 worked well with these and nosler 55gn ballistic tips.. Both clovered at 100 Si, no disrespect but that's like my 222 performance of yester year. I'm not criticizing you at all but I'm seeing this trend by powder manufacturers of throttling back so to speak. Not that it really matters, it will after all still work. Just sayin... 1 Quote Link to post
shovel leaner 7,648 Posted October 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 13 hours ago, bumpy22 said: Had a 223 years ago. But just use my hmr and 243 for everything for the last ten years or so. But bought a 223again this week so now need to develop a load for it. Only reason being is noise and I want to leave my drone on it permanently. Luckily I have stocked up on bullets for 243. Just need to try and sort a round for 223. Mates got some 53gn vmax to try first What make is the .223 bumpy ? I use 50grn vmax , Vihtavuori 135 in my Tikka . Quote Link to post
bumpy22 414 Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 Sako Mate. Got sne 55gn blitzing to try my mate uses Quote Link to post
si brown 8,486 Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 4 hours ago, Sausagedog said: Si, no disrespect but that's like my 222 performance of yester year. I'm not criticizing you at all but I'm seeing this trend by powder manufacturers of throttling back so to speak. Not that it really matters, it will after all still work. Just sayin... that was when I first started loading, was pretty reserved back then! my .204 loading started with max load fired into a bank with me not looking at the gun just in case it blew up, all looked fine with case and bolt lift so settled on a few gr over top.. me 6.5’s are all above book max too 1 1 Quote Link to post
Sausagedog 7,381 Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 4 minutes ago, si brown said: that was when I first started loading, was pretty reserved back then! my .204 loading started with max load fired into a bank with me not looking at the gun just in case it blew up, all looked fine with case and bolt lift so settled on a few gr over top.. me 6.5’s are all above book max too Yes, I think or rather assume they are concerned that we load it here then fly to the Sahara dessert to shoot them. So if they play safe nothing can go wrong. 1 Quote Link to post
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