When you spend a little time at the reloading bench as I do, over the years you’ll accumulate half boxes of oddball bullets, half cans of oddball powders, and a hell’s half acre of various brass with different headstamps from different makers. Back in 2018 I’d made some practice ammo for the gas guns: about 1500 rounds of 77gr Nosler HPBTs. I put them together with various brass cases, H4895, and mostly CCI primers. I didn’t give a hoot about repeatability-these were patty cake rounds for daily range work. I had meticulously loaded match loads in case any tourneys came up. The garbage did okay in the gas guns…but were spectacular in the bolt gun. I’ve now eaten through the last of them… and I’m now looking for an easy shooting alternative. I’m also going to start consuming and getting rid of these “orphan” powder cans and boolit boxes.
Today’s loads are 69 grain Nosler HPBTs. It’s interesting because I had to re-zero the Tupperware rifle as it was previously sighted in for a 70 grain Berger bullet load.
So today was just me playing around, finally getting serious about the little rifle and getting it off the bench, and shooting from the positions. Seeing how it shot from the bench vs. how it shoots without a rest. The rifles in the WMU I am hunting don’t come out until November… so I have lots of time to polish up a good hunting load, a good practice load, and my rusty marksmanship skills. There’s still a lot of fun to be had.
Cheers!
Filthie
I used black hills 69g bthp as a benchmark round for its accuracy in .223. Same as i use 168g bthp in .308 for a baseline accuracy round . Ive had good accuracy with both in a variety of guns an twists. My favorite for .223 is a 1:12 twist and 40g v-max. Bery fasy and accurate to 300m
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