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Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 4:53 pm
by Geek
I reload for accuracy and I currently reload 6.5CM, .308 , .223 and 6BR (.38/.357 and .44 to follow when I purchase the equipment).
I have a .223 Remington 700 (20 inch barrel, with a 1 in 9 twist) in an MDT stock and shoot it out to 600 yards (see picture), I doubt I would achieve this accuracy with factory ammunition?
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:20 am
by J4mes
Mike95 wrote:I note PPU .223 factory ammo at £86 a hundred.. reloading must be cheaper.. the brass seems to last a long time..
Mike95
You can buy a remington freedom bucket of 300 rounds for £140, although I've no idea if it's any use or not!
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:56 am
by Pete
I just priced reloading .223 using Lapua 77 grain Scenar "L" bullets, Lapua match cases, (assuming 10 firings), RS52 powder, and KVB-223M primers........
It comes out at 54p a pop.
Pete
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:52 am
by Sim G
PPU .223 is 86 quid per 100?!!!! Judas H. Priest!!!
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:56 am
by ovenpaa
What happened to the good old days of Barnaul 55grain at twenty quid per hundred.
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:59 am
by Sim G
And I bet once Ursula von der Leyen gets to really tightening the “punishment screws” that will go past a quid a round!
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:24 am
by shugie
Ovenpaa wrote:What happened to the good old days of Barnaul 55grain at twenty quid per hundred.
That Barnaul was filthy stuff though, I wouldn't want to leave a rifle that had much of that through it uncleaned for very long.
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 1:02 pm
by Blackstuff
If youre getting through lots of ammo or youre currently buy v expensive hunting stuff then it will likely be worth it, especially if you end up reloading other calibres as well.
I started reloading because it was becoming increasingly difficult to get the same ammo everytime and as its now stupidly expensive
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:01 pm
by kennyc
Ovenpaa wrote:What happened to the good old days of Barnaul 55grain at twenty quid per hundred.
from memory you sold it all! (at £18 a hundred
)
Re: .223 Reloading. Worth it?
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:29 am
by ovenpaa
kennyc wrote:...from memory you sold it all! (at £18 a hundred
)
I actually shot that stuff out to 1000 yards, admittedly it would be classed at harassing fire however it was in the 4&5 rings occasionally and that with an 17.5" barrel as well.