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So what load did you wind up with? I don't own a .223, but my oldest son does, a Remington 700 varmint rifle with a 26" heavy barrel, matte finish, fiberglass benchrest style stock. Its favorite load consists of the 50 grain Hornady V-Max over 26 grains of H4895 in a Remington case with a CCI small rifle primer. Velocities are on the low side, as the "maximum load" of H4895 is limited by case capacity rather than working pressures, but it sure does shoot. I think we are getting about 3200 fps. Groups at 200 yards run consistantly under 3/4".
A shooting buddy of mine gave my kid 1,000 of the V-Maxes to "get him started" when I first gave him the rifle for Christmas (he was 13). The rifle has the old, slow 14" twist, so it is restricted to the lighter bullets. We have long since used those up (he will be 21 this New Year's eve), but it liked them so much we decided to just keep using them. Funny, though, my .220 Swift will not shoot them. It prefers the 60 grain V-Max. You just never know...
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Jeff
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"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
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