Thread: Which bolt 223 to look out for

Originally Posted by berg243

ruger american ranch rifle nice short 16 and 1/2 inch barrel think it has 1 in 8 twist takes ar style mags or can get version with flush fitting mag already threaded. reviews say they are accurate.

My 5.56 Ruger Ranch Rifle with my 77 gr SMK homeloads mixture ex military brass at 500 yards, my old service rifle load no load development for this rifle first group.

Browning Micro bolt great rifle

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Originally Posted by berg243

have you tried those 77gr smk on deer. @xtightg looks a reasonable group for a handy rifle. is it the flush mag one or the ar style mag.what muzzle velocity are you getting with them . one should be turning up in the next few weeks with the ar style mag but wondering if i should pass on it and wait for next lot and get the flush mag.

The 77gn Tipped Match Kings are better for hunting purposes.

Originally Posted by berg243

have you tried those 77gr smk on deer. @xtightg looks a reasonable group for a handy rifle. is it the flush mag one or the ar style mag.what muzzle velocity are you getting with them . one should be turning up in the next few weeks with the ar style mag but wondering if i should pass on it and wait for next lot and get the flush mag.

I have only used the SMK's on paper so not sure on the terminal characteristics on game, I've got about 700 projectiles would be handy if the worked well on game as Service Rifle seems to have ground to a stop.

Would be interested to hear opinions from others who have used SMK's on wallabies and fallow, I tried some other target projectiles in my 308 not impressed went back to the 155 gr Amax.

I think I'm getting 2640 ish fps, the target indicates around 1550 fps at 500 yards

I have the flush 5 round mag which holds 6 well my ones do seems better to carry.

I await a chassis and 10 round mags lost in the NZ post politically correct admin black hole for the last month, I'm interested to see any changes over the standard set up.

steyr prohunter in 223, medium/light varmint barrel flutted SS, steel action??
were going cheap.

@Tertle I have a mate here in Chch who is wanting to sell his wooden stocked Tikka 223. He was going to get me to try sell it for him but I have not caught up with him yet. His price seemed fair when we chatted about it but after chatting to others about many rifles I cannot for the life of me remember what he paid or wanted for it.

It is a good accurate rifle, and his reason for selling was a fair one ( I think he has another 223 that he doesn't use either that he wants to keep- doesn't see the point of two rifles the same cal that he does not use...) If you want I can get more details from him and PM you. I would then put you directly in contact with him and let you two work out the details etc.

Originally Posted by timattalon

@Tertle I have a mate here in Chch who is wanting to sell his wooden stocked Tikka 223. He was going to get me to try sell it for him but I have not caught up with him yet. His price seemed fair when we chatted about it but after chatting to others about many rifles I cannot for the life of me remember what he paid or wanted for it.

It is a good accurate rifle, and his reason for selling was a fair one ( I think he has another 223 that he doesn't use either that he wants to keep- doesn't see the point of two rifles the same cal that he does not use...) If you want I can get more details from him and PM you. I would then put you directly in contact with him and let you two work out the details etc.

Nice option.

Originally Posted by timattalon

@Tertle I have a mate here in Chch who is wanting to sell his wooden stocked Tikka 223. He was going to get me to try sell it for him but I have not caught up with him yet. His price seemed fair when we chatted about it but after chatting to others about many rifles I cannot for the life of me remember what he paid or wanted for it.

It is a good accurate rifle, and his reason for selling was a fair one ( I think he has another 223 that he doesn't use either that he wants to keep- doesn't see the point of two rifles the same cal that he does not use...) If you want I can get more details from him and PM you. I would then put you directly in contact with him and let you two work out the details etc.

Thanks Tim, yes I’m interested, if you could send me details that would be great

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A pic of my little Rem 700 dressed in Bergara clothes. It too loves the Sierra 69s and 77s.

Originally Posted by SiB

The Ruger American is good.

A mate was running a mossberg and moved it on.... wasn’t that impressed w it

Where as my Mossberb MVP is an absolute laser ... in the right hands it is shooting 1 inch groups at 200m

Just picked up a Howa mini.

Son likes the 64 gr Game Kings in his Steyr Prohunter.
Got Steyr spelt correctly this time.

Hi I i stopped in at the Taihape Sports to see if i could find a L/H 223 didn't have anything but the owner Giles Stanford showed me a stainless with wooden stock Browning x bolt R/H action bloody nice rifles rotary mag and his prices are very sharp ph 06 388 1762 hope that helps. Remington yer-na CZ are good savage are good tikka are ok I just brought a cz 204 L/h action nice I like it

Ok, so from this im seeing that most 223 in country will or can do the trick, and in fact besides possibly finish and a few aesthetics the earlier comment that you may be paying a lot for not much more sounds about right, but i do appreciate an action that is smooth, hell ive owned a few clunkers for fun, Mosins, Carcarno's the odd enfield, hell i even lugged around an Omark .308 single shot around some hills, great for longer shots but man!

lets look at this a different direction, which again will be rather subjective. what is nice to have and what is needed.

i'll put my head a little on the block to get a healthy conversation going, again im biased as im looking for a rifle that i can have good repeatable accuracy, one i can reload for to obtain well under sub MOA, im a fussy bugger when it gets to accuracy, my previous semi auto on a good day was .3 moa 4 round groups.

happy with barrel length around 20inch last rifle was 18inch which wasn't cumbersome, 2 inches more isn't going to be the death of me, plus it had a muzzle break. I would like to have a higher magazine capacity- so the ability of an after market mag also allowing seating depth options would be nice.

Rates of twist, 1/7 1/8 1/9 ?? i do appreciate a slightly heavier projectile than 55gr but have a few projectiles needing to be pulled so thats a wee supply of them, but i can see the benefit of 70gr projectiles, and now this is a bolt rifle im not going to consume the same amount of projectiles i did with my old semi.

ive been warned away from recent/newer remington's which i was surprised about, im also unsure around heavier barrels and fluted barrels, so thoughts on 223, need not needed?
@mudgripz i will give you a bell soon and come over and have a look at your rifle.

Another reason im asking is that some new shooter may stumble onto this and it could be a useful read, even give them options a different price points?