Originally Posted by Dude270
Thanks Seafire and Ingwe. great info.

I have a small mountain of 55 grain hornady sp bullets and want to get a lower blast, lower recoil load going in the 223 for my son (he is 4 1/2 years old and loves shooting rimfire but wants to shoot the "big guns" too).

Any idea of velocities of the 4198 loads?



Dude, Ive been shooting that bullet in front of 8.0 grains of Trail Boss...havent clocked it but trajectory says its about 1900fps+ Noise level is that of a .22 mag....



As mentioned, still waiting to try the 4198 loads.


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