Primer Recommendation

[a1712]

Anyone have a preference for lighting off H4895 in a bolt action .223 Rem., 50 gr. bullets? Thanks all. Brian.

 

[243winxb]

Rem 7 1/2 or a magnum primer.

No Rem 6 1/2 or CCI 400. Thin cups let the primer flow to easy or pierce.

 

[Ledd Slinger]

I use Federal 205's in all my varmint rifles with excellent results

 

[Outrider27]

Another vote for Rem 7 1/2.

 

[jpx2rk]

S&B's work pretty good for me in the 223.

 

[boltfluter]

Rem 7 1/2 has worked well for me in a very accurate .222.

Paul

 

[r bose]

Rem 7 1/2 or a magnum primer.

No Rem 6 1/2 or CCI 400. Thin cups let the primer flow to easy or pierce.

Exactly as above. If you plan on shooting max loads, use a hard cup primer. 7 1/2 or cci450

 

[dolek]

I like Rem 7 1/2 and CCI 450 for the jazzed up loads and CCI 400s for light loads/light bullets. Never had a .223 that was picky about primers while using H4895,they all seemed to work fine.

 

[a1712]

Thank everyone. I have several to choose from, was just seeing if anyone noted better SD, ES, etc., with any certain primer. Brian.

 

[searcher]

Rem 7 1/2, Federal A/R Match, CCI450, TULA Mag or Wolff Mag have all worked well for me. The SD, ES will depend on the load - as none of these is always better than the other - as is usually true of all primers.

 

[JFrank]

After intial load development I test several primers side by side.
As mentioned previously I would avoid Remington 6 1/2 unless shooting a 22 Hornet

 

[Dgd6mm]

I use Winchester Small Rifle primers and H4895 for my .223 FTR rifle.

 

[MTSLW]

Sellier and Bellot gave me the best SDs with XBR in my 223 match rifle. They don’t seem to be super hard tho.