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Just picked up the 2013 Hornady Load Manual, the Magazine style...
it has load data for CF223 and also for the new 17 Hornet..
actually one of the better ones I have looked at over the years here... so I picked it up after looking at while at Barnes and Noble last night...
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I'm shooting CFE 223 in a 22-250 using 50gr bullets (vmax, , zmax,varmint extreme, etc.) Really love this powder in the 250. It shoots with excellent accuracy and is fast. 37gr is giving me 3,900 fps with a 26" 1x14. Haven't even tried to go past the minimum loading recommendation. Gives good ES and cleans up easily after a lot of shooting. CFE223 worked well in my two 22-250's as well... AR Comp is maybe even slightly better.
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My 22.250s like AR Comp alot also... as does the 243s.. and the 260 Rems...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Try what you got.
H380 is bueno.
TAC is good too.
Travis My. 22-250 really likes H380. Friends like TAC also but I have had such good results with H380 why try something else.If it ain't broke don' t fix it. Good Luck on your load search.
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IMR4064 & 50gr nosler bt gives me under 1/2" 100yd groups with book oal.
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4064 used to be a favorite..but for many years h4895 has been my favorite..bought a bunch before retiring...also picked up 10 pounds of 3031 cheap..it is a winner also..use these with 50 grain bullets and IMR4350 with 60 grain Part. and 63 grain Serria and 70 gr. Speer...
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I think what this post is showing is that the .22-250 isn't fussy
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Took to the middle of 4th page before someone mentioned BENCHMARK! As far as being fussy, I've never found the 22-250 to be fussy! Before the coming of VARGET, IMR 3031 was the powder that I thought would never be surpassed for usability across a wide range of chamberings.......222-375H&H. Then VARGET showed up and it works so well thru a measure and also that extreme range of capacity different cases. H380 got its name for 38.0 grains and 55 grain projectiles in the 22-250. 40 grains of WW 760 and tbe 52's works splendid also. The new releases, CFE and 8208 have given good test results also. But for now my go to powder for my own 22-250 (Ruger Target Gray) and a friends VSSF 22-250 is 33.5 grains of BENCHMARK. My rifle likes SIERRA 55BK and his shoots Nosler 55BT. .GHD
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Charlie,
in each of my 22.250s Benchmark didn't do so well at the max listed for it with each bullet weight...
however, when I used the starting loads, they each were shooting little bitty groups... don't know if others have experienced that... but it held true in the 5 rifles in that chambering, plus a couple of buddys' rigs...
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“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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