Lead in -- .223

[mag_01]

Would appreciate any feedback about using lead in the AR-15 -- Thx. Tom

[Calamity Jake]

Take a look here:http://www.castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=47365
for a little info and do a search for AR15

[gwilliams2]

I haven't slugged my AR-15 barrel but being fairly new I'm going to assume it's .223 .. I've measured my copper jacketed boolits (which I fire through this same gun) and they're all right at .2235 As a rule of thumb I normally try to go about 2 thousands over for cast boolits; my question is with the higher velocity weapons (like the AR) would everyone here feel comfortable with a .225 GC boolit???

[Calamity Jake]

I haven't slugged my AR-15 barrel but being fairly new I'm going to assume it's .223 .. I've measured my copper jacketed boolits (which I fire through this same gun) and they're all right at .2235 As a rule of thumb I normally try to go about 2 thousands over for cast boolits; my question is with the higher velocity weapons (like the AR) would everyone here feel comfortable with a .225 GC boolit???


Thats the dia. I shoot in mine, .225 and load just hot enough to cycle the action.

[DLCTEX]

I shoot .225 in 223, 222, 22hornet, 22-250 and it works well in all using 22 Bator and Lyman 46 gr. boolits.

[JIMinPHX]

There have been several threads in the past that covered this topic. Some of them referred to Mike Ventorino's (SP?) magazine article on cast in the Mini-14. I think that there is a lot of good information already out there on the board if you do a search.