Inexpensive 223 ammo for coyote
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Same here please....
I shot 6 shots of the winchester white box crap in my .223 on Sunday. I got about 8 inches of vertical stringing at 200 yards. Cheap ammo gets cheap results. Fine to practice with, I suggest the Federal hollowpoint stuff, it's 16 bucks a box and I can hit pop cans every time at 200.
You can make lots of cheap ammo yourself that will easly put to shame major manufactures.
Its not so much the ammo its self and the quality... its what works best in your gun... for instance on my 700 VLS 26" 1-12 Twist it seems to like 50 Grain bullets... so I can make 68 grain match grade but it wont work as good as 50 grain V-max. Everyone thinks match grade or precision bullet will just produce great groups in any gun you fire them out of which is not true.
Mind you I am charging all my loads with computer controled powder measure so... you can really tell what the bullet is doing because its the only variable that changes.
If you dont reload start... you can get a basic lee press and all setup for well under 200 dollars. If you want to do it all by hand you can get a lee class loader for 30 bucks lol
Its not so much the ammo its self and the quality... its what works best in your gun... for instance on my 700 VLS 26" 1-12 Twist it seems to like 50 Grain bullets... so I can make 68 grain match grade but it wont work as good as 50 grain V-max. Everyone thinks match grade or precision bullet will just produce great groups in any gun you fire them out of which is not true.
Mind you I am charging all my loads with computer controled powder measure so... you can really tell what the bullet is doing because its the only variable that changes.
If you dont reload start... you can get a basic lee press and all setup for well under 200 dollars. If you want to do it all by hand you can get a lee class loader for 30 bucks lol
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Sounds like a bedding problem to me (vertical stringing) Although I reload, I picked up a dozen or so of the 40rd. econo packs of Winchester white box .223 Rem. 45gr HP after I tried them a few years ago. My rifle will put 5 shots into a ragged hole at 100 yards.
I don't know if 55gr FMJs are so bad for not expanding.
A buddy of mine shot this rabbit with his 16inch barreled XCR in the states with 55gr FMJ. Expanded quite nicely if you ask me. But you need velocity for this kind of effect.
A buddy of mine shot this rabbit with his 16inch barreled XCR in the states with 55gr FMJ. Expanded quite nicely if you ask me. But you need velocity for this kind of effect.
