TassieTiger wrote:PoorShot300 wrote:Loved the sales pitch lol, but $$$ & space prohibit how many I can have. With all my combined hobby's I'm runnin outta room here mate. Reality is, I have the small to extreme range covered, but nothing in this calibre range that is affordable, for me, to feed.
rofl.
Just my opinion obviously.
There is not much in AU that you cannot take with some good 223 loads with good shot placement and given the laser type accuracy from most 223’s out to say 400 - shot placement becomes reliant on confidence. That being said - common sense dictates your not going to try and shoot a larger animal at longer distance - be ethical when hunting.
The other bonus with the 223 is that whilst it’s still definitely a centr fire - it does not scare the crap out of every living organism within 1klm...
I now have 3 centrefire rifles and I’m learning about all of them - but there is so darn much to learn - it’s going to take time. If I had have stuck with the 223 alone for a while at least, I would have perfected various aspects by now and well on my way to a deeper understanding of the Calibre.
If target shooting is your thing, some shooters are really pushing the limits of the 223 and knocking circles over 1000 yards...
bladeracer wrote:TassieTiger wrote:PoorShot300 wrote:Loved the sales pitch lol, but $$$ & space prohibit how many I can have. With all my combined hobby's I'm runnin outta room here mate. Reality is, I have the small to extreme range covered, but nothing in this calibre range that is affordable, for me, to feed.
rofl.
Just my opinion obviously.
There is not much in AU that you cannot take with some good 223 loads with good shot placement and given the laser type accuracy from most 223’s out to say 400 - shot placement becomes reliant on confidence. That being said - common sense dictates your not going to try and shoot a larger animal at longer distance - be ethical when hunting.
The other bonus with the 223 is that whilst it’s still definitely a centr fire - it does not scare the crap out of every living organism within 1klm...
I now have 3 centrefire rifles and I’m learning about all of them - but there is so darn much to learn - it’s going to take time. If I had have stuck with the 223 alone for a while at least, I would have perfected various aspects by now and well on my way to a deeper understanding of the Calibre.
If target shooting is your thing, some shooters are really pushing the limits of the 223 and knocking circles over 1000 yards...
.223 is not legal for deer in Victoria though, even point-blank.
TassieTiger wrote:Correct if wrong but 243 def isn’t either and for some species 6.5 is illegal....
PoorShot300 wrote:Overloading etc is not in my list of interest for safety reasons, even though I'm aware others have done it, I'm in no hurry to try. Same as chasing speeds, as I don't have a chrony, my focus will be with load/impact sweet spots for some time i guess, and without the chrony the numbers wont mean as much as the balanced load with what I have on hand at the time.
Gypsy
PoorShot300 wrote:Update;... the Lee Challenger kit showed up today, along with 300+ once fired ADI cases. So now have all the ingredients, but no annealer or tumbler as yet.
What do you lot use to anneal with? I've seen a few 'projects' on Y-tube, but what economical annealers are being used, and what cost? Where are you buying them from?
Rifle now paid for and awaiting delivery. Got caught up in a bait-&-switch as the Varmint laminate is no longer available, so had to pony up another $150 to get the Thumbhole version. Not happy bout that, so it better be a shooter..
Cheers
PoorShot300 wrote:Update;... the Lee Challenger kit showed up today, along with 300+ once fired ADI cases. So now have all the ingredients, but no annealer or tumbler as yet.
What do you lot use to anneal with? I've seen a few 'projects' on Y-tube, but what economical annealers are being used, and what cost? Where are you buying them from?
Rifle now paid for and awaiting delivery. Got caught up in a bait-&-switch as the Varmint laminate is no longer available, so had to pony up another $150 to get the Thumbhole version. Not happy bout that, so it better be a shooter..
Cheers
PoorShot300 wrote:Hmmm, i keep reading once fired will need to be annealed as it's fire formed in an AR-15 (or military equivalent) chamber, or are you suggesting I just do a full length resize and go from there? I have read of shooters not worrying about annealing, but that's usually for brass only fired in their own rifle.
BR?... you don't even clean the burnt powder out of your cases & primer pockets?
PoorShot300 wrote:Hmmm, i keep reading once fired will need to be annealed as it's fire formed in an AR-15 (or military equivalent) chamber, or are you suggesting I just do a full length resize and go from there?
PoorShot300 wrote:I can't say definitively they were from the one rifle, it was an online purchase, and the seller just said the rounds went through an AR-15 so it might not have even been military...
Guess I'm good to go and just FLS them all, then weight batch them for refilling. Gives me a chance to get the press set up and the cases ready while waiting for the rifle to arrive.
PoorShot300 wrote:It's the old "are we there yet?" conundrum...in a hurry 'slowly'...guess I should wait and see if they chamber OK, save myself some work that may not be required. Saying that though, if they have been through various rifles, and I DON'T FLS them, I won't know where the true accuracy lays, or which is the better recipe...at least FLS will put them on a semi even keel other than volume.
A bigger problem is where I will be able to set it all up...real estate is a rare thing around here...rofl.
PoorShot300 wrote:Thinking I'll FLS them first, then reform in my chamber and use the results from the second firing (3rd actually) to determine my load recipe and just neck size till chambering/loading gets difficult.
Have to get a few more brands/weights of projies & powder to really test it out though.
Looks like I found out why the poor service at my LGS...it's up for sale if anyone's interested?
PoorShot300 wrote:My LGS had a niche they were/are filling... "reloads". They have stock and I've never been there without there being other's in store (and buying), I guess he's just lookin to shoot more & work less, like I said, I'd put him at mid 60's, his wife seems late 50's at a guess. Don't imagine he does much smithy work though...
Your Ruger's 1:8 or 1:9 to handle those 80gn pills?