Anyone Wanting to Share their .223 or .308 recipes?

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I got a rockchucker kit and the fixins and was wondering before I head out to get some powder and primer was wondering if anyone wanted to share their secret recipes. I am loading .223 for an x-bolt and .308 for a 305 mostly for target at medium ranges.

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BH
 
The best loads for my .308 (Parker Hale "Safari") have been with H4895 and H335. Both with CCI 200 primers.

45 grs H4895 with a 150 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip.

46 grs of H335 with either a 100 gr Speer Plinker or a 130 gr Hornady Spire Point. Great "varmint" loads!

45 grs H335 with a 150 gr Speer Spitzer.

My .223 (Thompson Center Enccore) likes either 24 grs H30 with a 50 gr Speer TNT bullet or 23 grs IMR 3031 with a 55 gr Winchester PSP. Both with CCI 400 primers.
 
In my savage model 10, 223 I use rem brass, 55 Berger target bullets, 24.5 g of H4895 and fed 205 match primers that give me .5- .75 inch and 3300 fps. Haven't shot any critters with those loads yet but hopefully they work for my intended purposes.
 
For 223 rem
All loads with varget, winchester brass, and cci primers. Work up to these loads in your gun. They are safe in MY RIFLE. Proceed with caution as some are over max.
hornady 53gr vmax 25.7gr.
hornady 40gr vmax 27gr
Berger 60gr varmint fb 27gr
Berger 77gr 24gr
Sierra 40gr hp 27.5gr
 
Stevebot-7 said:
I just use the boring starting loads because I suck too much to see any difference in loads.
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Heh- me too. Just say you're cheap and are saving on powder: 2-4 grains a pop. 8)

For my M305, I use 43-44 grains of IMR4895 with a 2.795 OAL using bulk Hornady 150 gr FMJ-BT
in FC, Win brass etc. and either standard Win or CCI LR primers. Shoots more accurate than I can with the Norc iron sights.
 
13.5 grains of Blue Dot Powder
55gr Hornady SPSX bullet
Any 223 casing.
CCI small rifle primer.
This load is only for bolt guns. It won't cycle a semi-auto.
It's great for shooting gophers. Over 500 rounds per lb of powder.
This load works great in my Stevens 200.
Regards, Henry
 
43gr of H4895, a Hornady 150gr FMJ, and IVI NATO brass.
Thats what I use in my M14. Great brass, nice and thick. Load is very close to NATO spec's
For .223 I like 26gr of Reloader 15 behind a 60gr Hornady FBSP. For 5.56 spec ammo a 55gr FMJ propelled by 25.5gr of H335 works great, a little hot for .223 chambers though.
 
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