Mold for XP100 223 ?

[jjnpg317]

What would you suggest in 55 grain area ? What powder to be used as its only shot at
approximately 125 yards max ?

Thanks

[**oneshot**]

I have been messing with the 60gr NOE mold in my xp223. I use this for IHMSA. So far reloader#7 and 4227 have been giving me decent results.

[cbrick]

RCBS 55 FNGC.

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Rick

[CWME]

NOE makes a nice copy of the RCBS 55 FNGC that Rick is showing above. I have had great results with the NOE copy in a 223 1-14 twist ER shaw barrel over 15gr of H4895. NOE is coming out with a new 55 grain boolit next month, copy of the Eagan 55gr. Should be a shooter as well. I have his 60gr Eagan boolit but it doesn't like the 14 twist barrel.
What twist rate does your barrel have? That will limit how fast you can push them and conversly help you choose what powder you might try running.

[jjnpg317]

I don't know the twist in the barrel. It is a factory gun and the only change has been a wooden stock put on 15-20 years ago. It hasn't been shot until recently and sat around all those years. It is shot now in an attempt to hit skeet on a bank. Most of the time I feel as if I'm gargling with peanut butter because I don't do too well with it. I like casting and don't know much about molds for that small a boolit.
Thanks

[willk]

A real good powder for that case and cast bullets is SR4759.

[jjnpg317]

I got the NOE 225-55 3 cavity mold and cast three hundred out of linotype. After putting gas checks on and sizing them , loaded them with 2400 powder. (found data in old Lyman Manual ) In the XP 100 at fifty yards the group was approximately 1" with three shots. My buddy's Model 77 223 put them into a group even smaller ! Next he tried a clone of a AR15 with a 1-9 " twist and it too shot small groups also ! The gun would eject them but not chamber the next round.

Our next reloading session will be using filler material with IMR4895 that Larry Gibson was good enough to inform us how to do.
Thanks to all of you !