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Offline TrappinJohn

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What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« on: March 29, 2008, 03:23:01 PM »
Just picked up a 14" TC 223 barrel for my Contender.  Been doing some reading and it sounds like the 1-14 twist prefers 40 - 50 grain bullets over the 55s.  What have you guys found?

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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2008, 12:38:35 AM »
Yep, 50 grain Hornady bullets and H-335 or WC-844.  Good-luck...BCB
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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2008, 01:26:20 AM »
Mine likes the 50 gr. Speer TNT and RL-15.

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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2008, 05:50:05 AM »
50 gr. or lighter as with some of the SX type bullets and H322 or an equally fast powder.  The commonly used powders for .223 are too slow to achieve a complete burn in the shorter barrels resulting in less than optimum accuracy and performance.
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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2008, 02:46:54 PM »
My 10" .223 likes the 40-grain B-Tips and V-Max bullets best.  Accuracy is very good and velocity is flatter....for a ten-incher.  Actually I prefer to use BlueDot in this barrel, the report is much less  than with Varget or H322, and so is the fireball!  Velocity is down a few hundred fps but accuracy holds.  This is not a long range barrel anyway.


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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2008, 08:58:32 AM »
50 grain ballistic tips and Winchester 55gr soft points.  I have tried other 55s, but they did not keep under moa.  These two bullets will shoot less than moa to 200 meters.

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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2008, 12:15:24 PM »
Thanks guys

I've got some 40 and 50gr V-Max on the way.  I have some 4198, so we'll give it a shot for now.
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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2008, 01:37:28 PM »
52gr Speer HPBT over H-335. If your barrel is a std TC barrel it should be a 1-12" twist.   KN
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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2008, 06:38:10 PM »
Ive used 50 v max 52 a max 55 psp's and 60 v max

best results were with the 50 and 52's but I don't remember what powder I was using. Most likely H335 but Im not 100% on that.
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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2008, 11:48:15 AM »
KN - Your right, I emailed TC and they told me the 223 is 1-12" twist.

I wonder if that changed sometime along the line???  My Lyman and Hornady manuals both state the 14" TC they tested was 1-14.

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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2008, 12:33:56 PM »
I have had mine since the early eighties. Don't know about any earlier than that.   KN
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Re: What bullet weight does your 14" 223 like?
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2008, 03:18:45 PM »
Mine is pretty partial to just about anything in 55 grains.  What is odd is my carbine barrel only likes the 45 gr Winchester white box ammo.
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