Subsonic .223 with Titegroup
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Selling reloaded ammo is a no no on the site.
But, someone offering to assist for no monetary gain might work.
Rob
He's not talking about this site. He's talking in general. "Illegal" isn't the term to use when discussing CGNs powers.
It's illegal in real life as well as being verboten here.
You can also assist for monetary or other gain all you like. There's absolutely nothing illegal or wrong with that.
I really enjoy playing with reduced loads. But I must confess, I have not figured out how to make rounds for less than .22lr ammo...?
a primer by its self is worth about 5c. I think average walmart price of a brick of bulk .22lr is $40 (8c./rd). 3c. for powder and projectile seems tough to stay under to me.
The fun factor of reduced loads is through the roof mind you so I'm not complaining... Im all ears though!
a primer by its self is worth about 5c. I think average walmart price of a brick of bulk .22lr is $40 (8c./rd). 3c. for powder and projectile seems tough to stay under to me.
The fun factor of reduced loads is through the roof mind you so I'm not complaining... Im all ears though!
Neither can I. Not sure anybody here is saying any one powder is superior. I've never seen TinStar, but I do have Trail Boss. I also use Unique and 700X in light loads, have done for years. I load with a digital scale and dipper, for each cartridge. I load for 30-30, 32WS, 308, 303Br, 30-06, 8x57 and a couple of others.
Two of the reasons I use Unique and 700X is economics. I scored 10 lbs of Unique for $50, and 8 lbs of 700X for same. At 10-12 grains per round, that's a lot of plinking. Around 10,000 @7000 grains/lb. Mind, I'm not going to the Olympics with my cork gun loads!
So, I tried out 6 different loads of .223/5.56 last weekend. They were 3.2 gr and 3.3 gr of Titegroup, and 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 grains of IMR4227 along with some heavy loads of 26.6 gr of Ramshot Tac all under Western Metal 55 gr FMJBT bullets.
The Titegroup rounds were very quiet and didn't sound like they were supersonic but no chrono to be sure. The IMR loads were taken from the data for .22 Hornet and were still very mild with hardly any recoil. At the same point of aim they landed about an inch higher than the Titegroup loads at 25m. The TAC loads were loud and fast and landed just slightly higher still. Even the 10.0 gr 4227 loads wouldn't cycle an AR though but worked just fine in a bolt gun. No significant difference in the horizontal plane between any of them. Pretty much textbook vertical changes only. That was interesting. Will definitely be loading up some more 4227 lrounds.
The Titegroup rounds were very quiet and didn't sound like they were supersonic but no chrono to be sure. The IMR loads were taken from the data for .22 Hornet and were still very mild with hardly any recoil. At the same point of aim they landed about an inch higher than the Titegroup loads at 25m. The TAC loads were loud and fast and landed just slightly higher still. Even the 10.0 gr 4227 loads wouldn't cycle an AR though but worked just fine in a bolt gun. No significant difference in the horizontal plane between any of them. Pretty much textbook vertical changes only. That was interesting. Will definitely be loading up some more 4227 lrounds.
