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These threads crack me up.

Yep!

They make me wonder why there's a desire to elevate deer to be purt near bulletproof.

Those bullets will NOT disappoint. Those, Fusions and Nosler Bonded bullets aren't sexy, but they damn sure get the job done.

Sure

As long as the shooter knows how to use it

64 gr bonded Nosler should work

Even a 53 V max in the ear........

LOL, 223 Greenhorn here Sir, that said, and in your honor, i had gun bud find and order me a Ruger American Predator 8 twist 223, i have rings and spare 2.5-8 and 6.5-20 Leupold scopes, 62gr Bearclaws and 64gr Nosler Bonded's at 3100+ fps from the 22" barrel would have to do a real bangup job on deer and pigs this side of 250 yards, i intend to find out this season.

It'll work Fo'Sho' and it doesnt take a handful of Kingsford briquets to load each round, like your other guns!

I use the 77 grain Sierra TMKs in the ARs and bolts. Once you see the damage they do you’ll never wonder if they’ll kill a scrawny deer again.

That bonded bullet DOES work. It is a wrecking ball. Ingwe has more experience than I do with it. It is seriously nasty. A deep penetrator that is devastating on tissue.

I've not got the 64 grain Bonded bullet to shoot well in two of my 223's - I have not tried it in my 223 that set up for varmints. I ordered some 65 Partitions which have not shown up yet.

Word ; ] 26gr CFE-223 to the rescue, came across 800 rounds of new LC match brass last year, loaded up 300 62gr TBBC and 500 64gr Nosler's, as my retarded ass does, was running them through Wifes 223 house guns by hand and a couple didn't want to chamber, wont run that for her, she'll just have to use the factory Federal XM556FBIT3M loads, bud gave me 5 cases of those 10 years ago, she's GTG with those, same bullet as my handloads, but now here i sat with 800 rounds of great hand loaded ammo, remembering what all you've done with 223 made the choice easy, but a bolt rifle i can shoot them in, perfect excuse!

Big B, 8 twist should spin those 77gr STMK's, no?

Easily and all day long. I know there are better, meaning more sleek 75-80 grain bullets, but as far as tooling up the Dillon and churning out 1000 at a rip there isn't a better one for me. I use 26.5 grains of LVR, CCI450's and LC range brass for my stuff and man, it shoots. About 2700'ish or a bit more from 16-18" uppers and 2800 from 20" bolt guns. I am sure I could do faster, but with the way they fly I don't mess with the charge bar on the Dillon.

That'll work, sounds great Big B, Thanks Man, those little bonded boogers of mine [62-64gr] should run 3100 from 22" Ruger bolt barrel, got pics of a monster wild sow that needs one of those in the shoulder ; ]

They are definitely a different animal with some good bullets in them. I'd not be happy, but I could do alot of stuff with a 62 grain TTSX as well. That's about my second favorite 224 bullet.

Yes Sir, if i had not ran into these 62-64gr bonded bullets the 62gr TSX/TTSX would have been the exact bullet i would have loaded, it's a fuggin buzzsaw!

"Well" is relative. I won't be showing pics of my 3 shot groups with them, but down here where a 100 yard shot is about as long as you'll get, a 1.5 inch group is more than adequate.

Me too. You can tell who has and who hasn’t.

This has got to be the most frequently seen example of those who haven’t done it telling those who do what a bad idea it is.

Yep. Don't care if it's a 85# doe in Texas or a 300# buck in Saskatchewan.

About 6 MOA in one and 4 MOA in the other. I suspect the twist is the problem.