PoorShot300 wrote:Thanks Blr243, another vote for hand priming. It's looking more like the way I will begin also as the press prime kit doesn't have the shell holders and replaced them with a reloading manual, which I already have in the Hornady manual (#8) and current online ADI reloaders guide.
On primers, I read much of the CCI #400 for .223, so who can tell me the best place for 'components' like primers, projies, powder and cases, or alternate primers? I'm in Victoria if that helps narrow the field?
I have done a bit of a search, but many places don't list prices or postage costs. Who looks after YOU best? Do they combine purchases & offer postage savings etc?
Looking @ OSA brass, 2206H powder, CCI primers and likely Speer projies (55gn) unless otherwise advised. This will just be barrel burn in & press operation familiarisation ammo to begin with, looking at 500 rnds worth of each.
PoorShot300 wrote:Thanks Blr243, another vote for hand priming. It's looking more like the way I will begin also as the press prime kit doesn't have the shell holders and replaced them with a reloading manual, which I already have in the Hornady manual (#8) and current online ADI reloaders guide.
On primers, I read much of the CCI #400 for .223, so who can tell me the best place for 'components' like primers, projies, powder and cases, or alternate primers? I'm in Victoria if that helps narrow the field?
I have done a bit of a search, but many places don't list prices or postage costs. Who looks after YOU best? Do they combine purchases & offer postage savings etc?
Looking @ OSA brass, 2206H powder, CCI primers and likely Speer projies (55gn) unless otherwise advised. This will just be barrel burn in & press operation familiarisation ammo to begin with, looking at 500 rnds worth of each.
PoorShot300 wrote:Loved the sales pitch lol, but $$$ & space prohibit how many I can have. With all my combined hobby's I'm runnin outta room here mate. Reality is, I have the small to extreme range covered, but nothing in this calibre range that is affordable, for me, to feed.
rofl.
TassieTiger wrote:PoorShot300 wrote:Loved the sales pitch lol, but $$$ & 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