Your favorite .223 load? - UPDATED FEB 21

[AWOL]

Your favorite .223 load?

May I ask what you have calculated your cost per round is right now?

If I calculate my time, it costs me about $3 per round. The quality is not available off the shelf so I have to make it.

 

[VooDooMan]

List updated guys.
Keep them coming!!!

 

[Procule]

Need more H335 loads guys!

 

[flying pig]

My pet load in my M12, 9 twist 26":

75gr Amax
23.8gr Varget
CCI 450 primer
Nostler cases
2.425" OAL

I'm seeing groups down to 1/2moa out to 300 with this load. Haven't been out further with it yet.

 

[hometownhero]

List updated guys.
Keep them coming!!!

My col is 2.244" Same as I measured the hornady superformance.

 

[MIRAMICHIER]

My Pet Load for Tikka .223 HB stainless

H4895 / 25 gr
V-Max 53 gr
CCI-br4
Nosler Brass
OAL 4.440
3/4 Groups @ 100 yds. not real good.Never tried H-335

 

[nissannx]

I have surplus h414 is there a load for that powder?

 

[Pr589]

In a Savage 12 with 1 in 7 twist barrel:
- 24 grains of Varget
- CCI 400 primers
- 75 grain Amax
- 2.516 COAL, about 4 thousands off the lands

 

[hometownhero]

My Pet Load for Tikka .223 HB stainless

OAL 4.440
3/4 Groups @ 100 yds. not real good.Never tried H-335

You mean 2.440? Thats longer then a 30-06 otherwise.

 

[JJ-65]

One I've been shooting a lot of coyotes with lately: Nosler 35 gr ballistic tip lead free, 29.5 grs of Tac, LC case, Fed 205 sr match primer. Clocks 4000+fps out of my Kimer Montana and kills like a 22-250.

 

[Jmiverson]

Rem. SPS Tac.
For coyotes and 100 yd. paper:

55gr Nosler BT Varmint
24.5 grs. imr 8208
Win. case
Rem 7-1/2 primer
.030 off lands

Long-ish range plinking:

70 gr. Berger VLD
24.9 grs. Varget
Win. case
Rem 7-1/2 primer
.010 jam into lands

Both are moa or better at the ranges I've shot.

 

[nevanevan]

One I've been shooting a lot of coyotes with lately: Nosler 35 gr ballistic tip lead free, 29.5 grs of Tac, LC case, Fed 205 sr match primer. Clocks 4000+fps out of my Kimer Montana and kills like a 22-250.

Do you find this to be a really accurate say 200yard load? Approximatly how far away from the lands are you seating the bullets? I have had excellent results with noslers before, but not sure about the really light loads. I have a 1/8twist 26" shilen barrel

 

[rembolt]

Rifle Stevens 200 1 in 9 twist

Case IVI
Primer cci 400
Powder Hodgdon CFE223 25.2 gr
Bullet Hornady 60 gr V max

Case IVI
Primer cci 400
Powder Accurate 2230 24.3 gr
Bullet Nosler BT 55 gr

 

[shorttrac]

Nosler 50 grain solid base with 26 grains of Benchmark works for me.

 

[polaris]

Here is the recipe which works great in my Norinco M4:

Range brass, any head stamp (didn't buy .223 brass in 20 years, and the price is right ).
25 grs Varget
55 grs Hornady bulk, FMJ
any small rifle primer

This load is excellent, and reasonably accurate.

Approximately $0.27 per round, or $5.40 per box (including taxes and shipping for components).
Doesn't get any cheaper.

 

[Easy 9mm]

Here's my H335 load. Results average around 3/4 MOA at 100 yards, with 1/2 MOA when everything comes together for me.

Savage model 10 precision carbine 1:9 twist
Case - Rem (I sometimes use FC brass too, but I see a little loss in accuracy)
Powder - 23.8Gr H335
Primer - CCI BR4 or FGM (both give me about the same results, so really whichever I can get my hands on)
Bullet - 69gr SMK @ 2.240" OAL

 

[titch--]

Steven's 200 223
53gr Vmax
26.5 Varget
CCI 450
misc cases

 

[beretta boy]

Remington 700 VLS 6-18 Leupold VX-II
Gre-Tan lightweight firing pin & spring
Win case
CCI BR primer
25.0 gr. H335
Nosler 55 BT
COAL 2.260"
Groups under 1/2" @ 100. - one keeper @ .108"

 

[cr5]

Remington 700 with Factory Carbon fiber wrapped barrel, AICS 1.5 chassis, Federal brass, CCI400 primers, 21.3gr IMR4198, 36gr Barnes Varmint Grenade

5 shots at 100yds, one inch squares