I reload exclusively military rounds, primarily rimless bottle necked jacketed ammo, but some rimmed cast lead black powder as well. As we all know, components have been very difficult to come by lately. I was browsing a website and they had 8lb jugs of CFE223 in stock. For those of you who dont know, CFE223 was developed specifically to eek out as much velocity as possible out of cartridges like .222 and .223 Remington, .204 Ruger, .224 Valkryie, however Hodgdon lists data for cartridges like .308, .30-06, 8x57mm, 7.7 Jap, .303, basically most full bore .30 cal rifle cartridges. So i bought 8lbs. I had worked up loads in both 8x57mm and 7.7 Jap.
This is a bit of advice/warning for those of you planning to use CFE223. Do not start with the starting loads in .30 cal rifle cartridges. I experienced several hang fires in both my Arisaka and Czech Mauser, as well as a squib. Luckily the bullet had only entered the throat so it was easy to pound out. Basically this: if using CFE223 be wary of starting loads.