I have been unable to find and load data to indicate that Hodgdon's H380 can be used in a .223. That is, not until tonight. I was looking at a load data sheet that came with my Lee .223 dies and low and behold it plainly lists H380 with a 55 grain bullet using a powder charge of 28.5 grains. OK, this sounds good as I have a quantity of H380 on hand. I carefully measured 28.5 grains weighed on a Frankford electronic scale. Problem is, it completely filled the primed case. My first thought was that my scale was out of calibration, so I re-zeroed the scale and tried again with same results. I then zeroed the scale using a 50 gram weight after resetting from grains to grams. Scale checked out perfectly. Changed back to grains and reweighed another powder charge and it also maximum filled the case. I am going to call Lee customer service tomorrow about this, but thought I would ask here if anyone has had any experience loading .223 with H380 powder? I usually use CFE223. Maybe I had better stay with it. Thanks for the response!


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