.223 auto rifle reload recipes

[driftin]

This is what I load my .223 with also.

55 grn FMJ/BT
25.5 grn H335
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52 grn JHP/BT
26 grn H335

 

[Gunner3456]

A lot of good advice here. I'd like to emphasize that every rifle is different. The barrel vibrates at a different rate so it's in a different position as the bullet leaves. Change powders or charges or even primers and that changes the vibration. The chambers are also slightly different in each rifle.

Now, you can go to the store and buy a box of ammo and shoot it just fine, but it's built to "stock" specs to fit and shoot in anyone's rifle. With reloads you can improve accuracy but you have to experiment with your own rifle if you're wanting to fine tune it. If you don't care if you get ultimate accuracy, you can load "by the book."

If you want to go "over the top," you'll need to buy several different powders and several different brands of bullets, a chronograph, and start working loads with the different combinations and different charges of each powder. You'll want to fire-form your brass. You'll want to determine your rifle's best over all length for the round. You'll want to keep records so you know what worked best. It can get really involved. Most people don't do that, but to some it's just plain fun.

You can buy one powder and one good brand of bullet and play with loads (within recommended book specs) until your accuracy satisfies you, and do just fine.

Bottom line: Regardless of whether you're anal about your loads or maybe you'd rather just get a decent load with decent speed and accuracy, what works in someone else's gun may be far from the best in yours.