Any good loads for the 223 rem.in the 2500 to 2800 fps range ?

[brstevns]

Has anyone developed any good loads with Powder coated bullets in the 2500 to 2800 fps range in the 223 rem. ?
Have a nice single shot that I am hoping to dedicate to cast bullets only, but would like to at lease get 2500 to 2800. I have a lee 22 bator mold and one of their newer 22 cal molds to try.

[bangerjim]

I never shoot over ~1600 FPS with PC in 223/556. Some others do. They may chime in. Just use standard published load data in PC. I do all the time. The Lee bator design is carp in my book. I prefer a boolit that LOOKS like a real rifle boolit profile and cast and shoot a lot of them from other vendors on here. ( I now buy ONLY brass molds) PC'd with alloy hardness mixed for 15......not water dropped. I use X-Terminator powder only for 223/556 loads........right out of the loading manuals.

Good luck on your high speed quest.

[Moonie]

What are your accuracy goals? The faster you push them the harder it is to get good accuracy.

[RogerDat]

Will be interesting to hear what people chime in with. For me it's a heavy 70 grain from NOE so I don't try for the velocities you are trying for. No idea what fps one gets from 24.5 grains of Varget but it cycles fine in a Ruger mini-14. I won't get the range from a Ranch rifle that you would from a bolt gun so I never saw the need.

[brstevns]

What are your accuracy goals? The faster you push them the harder it is to get good accuracy.

Well like the old saying , The best I can get. What would be considered a decent group at 100 yards, 1 inch ?

[dbosman]

If you check the scores in the Cast Bullet Association shoots, the results and load are listed. That will give you the accuracy and load.

[Oily]

IMHO you should start with straight lino with molds you have and see what you can achieve as to velocity vs accuracy. If your gun is 1:12 or 1:14 twist your boolit weight will be limited to 60 grains or lighter. You said single shot so I expect this is the twist you will have unless a custom build. My 220 swift Ruger 77 V has yet to achieve accuracy above 2000 fps with hitek and any boolit I have tried. Lots of money down that wormhole. By the way 45 grain cast HP in lino is devastating on yotes at 1800 to 2000 fps, almost like a 50 grain ballistic tip in lethality

[brstevns]

IMHO you should start with straight lino with molds you have and see what you can achieve as to velocity vs accuracy. If your gun is 1:12 or 1:14 twist your boolit weight will be limited to 60 grains or lighter. You said single shot so I expect this is the twist you will have unless a custom build. My 220 swift Ruger 77 V has yet to achieve accuracy above 2000 fps with hitek and any boolit I have tried. Lots of money down that wormhole. By the way 45 grain cast HP in lino is devastating on yotes at 1800 to 2000 fps, almost like a 50 grain ballistic tip in lethality

My 223 has a 1-9 twist. if that is of help. I have shot size and lube to 1500 fps with Unique for a small game load.

[brstevns]

If you check the scores in the Cast Bullet Association shoots, the results and load are listed. That will give you the accuracy and load.

what is their web site name?

[bruce drake]

I can't give you any data at the moment but I intend to test in my 223 Rem AR15 (1-8" Twist) PC coated 69gr Mihec cast loads starting at 2300-2500fps this spring.

Bruce

[Smoke4320]

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[bruce drake]

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Didja make that photo small enough?

[Smoke4320]

The new constraints on pics (2MB or less ) makes posting pics a pain

[bruce drake]

https://www.egglestonmunitions.com/articles

neat short article about 223 Rempoly coated bullets.

2mb limit? Shoot! I'm been resizing down to create 70kb photos for too long then!

[brstevns]

I can't give you any data at the moment but I intend to test in my 223 Rem AR15 (1-8" Twist) PC coated 69gr Mihec cast loads starting at 2300-2500fps this spring.

Bruce

Would like to hear your results.

[brstevns]

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Tired to enlarge the pic but still could not make out the load you where using.

[Hick]

Some experts claim that you should not push as cast bullet faster than the velocity that gives you 140,000 rpm. With a 1:9 twist that's somewhere slightly below 2000 fps. In my 223 rem accuracy disappears at about 1900 fps no matter what lube I try ,even with gas checks. My most accurate load is at 1720 fps, gas checked, using both a Lyman 225646 and RCBS 225-55-FN. I do this with 5.8 grains of HP-38 or W231. I've tried to get over 2000 fps but at some point the boolits just cease to exist (they leave the rifle and never arrive at the target).

[Smoke4320]

Brstevns
I will look it up for you tomorrow and post

[Plate plinker]

The new constraints on pics (2MB or less ) makes posting pics a pain

I have been cropping pictures before I post these days.