Reloading 223 rifle

[Retired shooter]

Hello to all
By no means do I intend to interrupt.
With the total COAL how are some of you running such long lengths. Are these all bolt action rifles, or some AR style and magazine fed.
Please enlighten me as I am asking about length and jam in another thread .
Thanks

 

[Rob01]

Mine is a bolt gun and using MDT mags which allow up to 2.550” in oal. At the 2.470” I am .020” off the lands in my .223 Wylde chamber.

 

[Retired shooter]

Thank you.
Another member informed me about different mags to allow for longer OAL I will be checking those out.
Thanks again.

 

[Hohn]

Just home from a range trip with my new 223. Savage 10 with 20" barrel, Wylde chamber, 75gr Amax and IMR-8208 XBR. I started pretty low at 21.0gr as 8208 is a completely new powder to me. I worked up to 22.2 going 2600fps, not even close to max . Only 3 shot groups while still breaking things in but no group over .75 and half the groups under .5" I figure not too bad for a first outing. With my setup and numbers Quickloads says a max charge of around 25gr. Hope this helps

In my match AR, I load 23.6 under an 80 ELD. It’s the best 600y gas gun load I’ve found yet. Yes it’s far above any book data. No, you shouldn’t duplicate.

Edit: 5.56 chamber and COAL of right at 2.5”. Single feed only.

 

[Retired shooter]

Thank you.!