Thread: Anyone reloading 35 grain 223's ??

"flat shooting" isn't a real advantage at any range as it's never a real functional difference



e: with modern bottleneck centrefires etc not .45/70 vs .22-250 or something retarded

Yeah pretty much except I get the 55vmax dropping about 1.5inches more at 200 than 35vmax.

Yip 35 will be going slower at that point and start dropping pretty quick after.

They will also be blown around roughly twice as much as well.

Still I wouldn't say they are useless, just limited. Each to there own aye gimp.

The 53gr Vmax is a much better bullet than the 55. 55 is a flatbase, 53 has a nice little boat-tail.

Yeah just ran it with litz and 53 and its about .3inch more drop at 200 as you say.

Basically nothing in it. What im trying to say is if you have a slow twist barrel which I assume kiwi has the difference between the theoretical worst pill (35) and theoretical best pill (53) is pretty insignificant and ranges under 200 it wont matter one little bit what your using.

The barrel is 1:12

I went for vmax 40's

As soon as I get time, powder and primers I'm into it

Hodgdon varget seems like a good starting point.


Tim

Varget/2208 is a bit slow burning for 40gr, better off with BM2 or AR2207


My point is that there's nothing in it inside 200 (except a 400fps speed advantage to the heavier bullet by 200 meters) but no real advantage to the lighter bullets at all and they're much much shitter past 200 so why use them? Use the best, heaviest bullet that your twist will stabilise.