I reload for accuracy and I currently reload 6.5CM, .308 , .223 and 6BR (.38/.357 and .44 to follow when I purchase the equipment).
I have a .223 Remington 700 (20 inch barrel, with a 1 in 9 twist) in an MDT stock and shoot it out to 600 yards (see picture), I doubt I would achieve this accuracy with factory ammunition?
.223 Reloading. Worth it?
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
You can buy a remington freedom bucket of 300 rounds for £140, although I've no idea if it's any use or not!Mike95 wrote:I note PPU .223 factory ammo at £86 a hundred.. reloading must be cheaper.. the brass seems to last a long time..
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I just priced reloading .223 using Lapua 77 grain Scenar "L" bullets, Lapua match cases, (assuming 10 firings), RS52 powder, and KVB-223M primers........
It comes out at 54p a pop.
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It comes out at 54p a pop.
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
PPU .223 is 86 quid per 100?!!!! Judas H. Priest!!!
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
What happened to the good old days of Barnaul 55grain at twenty quid per hundred.
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
And I bet once Ursula von der Leyen gets to really tightening the “punishment screws” that will go past a quid a round!
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Ovenpaa wrote:What happened to the good old days of Barnaul 55grain at twenty quid per hundred.
That Barnaul was filthy stuff though, I wouldn't want to leave a rifle that had much of that through it uncleaned for very long.
Careful now/that sort of thing
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
If youre getting through lots of ammo or youre currently buy v expensive hunting stuff then it will likely be worth it, especially if you end up reloading other calibres as well.
I started reloading because it was becoming increasingly difficult to get the same ammo everytime and as its now stupidly expensive
I started reloading because it was becoming increasingly difficult to get the same ammo everytime and as its now stupidly expensive
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
from memory you sold it all! (at £18 a hundredOvenpaa wrote:What happened to the good old days of Barnaul 55grain at twenty quid per hundred.
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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
I actually shot that stuff out to 1000 yards, admittedly it would be classed at harassing fire however it was in the 4&5 rings occasionally and that with an 17.5" barrel as well.kennyc wrote:...from memory you sold it all! (at £18 a hundred
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