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Seafire, what kinds of velocities are you seeing from the Blue Dot loads and the 35 grain NTXs?

Not sure yet.......

Makes sense to me. where are you at so far?

3650 +

My little .223 only wears a fixed 4x leupold but at 100yards it will still keep 3 shots with a 55g Sierra spitzer backed by 26.0g of varget in a group small enough that can be covered by a quarter. I know the rifle is capable of better but with the 4x I'd really be pushing the envelope trying to get a tighter group

Sounds kinda like my set up ky221, simple but effective.

I might just sample some varget in the .223. Seems to be a few happy campers with it.

Just bought 16 pounds H335.....and a new M12 savage stainless 223.
Wife shoots the same gun but it has a 20 " barrel and she is getting 3600 fps with the 40 Vmax. With what I'm reading here.... I would hate to be a varmint !!

Marty,

here is one of the chrony results from last summer when I was testing them up where I go to chronograph at times, up sort near Onion Mt Fire Look Out..



Ruger 223 with 35 NTX and Blue Dot powder....

I do have some blue dot, just don't have that light of bullets on hand.

3600+ fps from a .223 is always impressive though

I had an lights out accurate load for my old Savage 10FLP. 40gr.Nosler BT's, 26grs AA2230. Didn't matter which brass or primer was used.Shot a many of sub .3moa groups with it.

50 vmax 26 h335 win or rp brass cci or fed primers. Moly

varget with a 69 grain pill

27 grains of varget with a 55 v max outa a mini 14 at 30yards 3/4 inch group not bad for this gun iorn sites

Varget is what most of the high power shooters use

A+. Same load as 7mmMato. Exact load!

Tried some 50 gr. vmax pills and aforementioned imr 4198.

Went into 1 inch groups @100 yards from my wobbly ironing board stile 'big game' shoot'n bench....I Need to relocate the large, stable and heavy built of 2x6 lumber pick-nick table in yard so as to shoot from and help groups.

With 23 grains imr4198, cci450 cap and f-c cases chrono showed an average of 3503 fps after a 20 shot string.

Fastest .223 load from the ruger bolt gun so far.

25-25.5 varget with the 55 gr nosler ball tips have shot great out of many 223's. I just found my Savage will shoot the 69 matchkings just as good as the ball tips also with varget. My Hart built 223 loves H335 with 52gr matchkings.
Good Shooting

60 gr NP, 60 gr Vmax and 62 gr TSX over 24.5 gr TAC

Check this site for some really great loads:

http://www.centerfirecentral.com/Re...eight=&Powder=&Submit=Search+Now

I use H322, H335, AA2015, Benchmark, N133, N135 with the 50 and 55g pills with outstanding success.

26.0 h335 50 gr. blitxkings, 33xxfps cooper m 21, .1's and .2's everyday.