yeah

what was once commonplace

I'm thinking of getting on the 224 valkyrie train

maybe I'll wait another year or two to see if there are better bullet designs

have not head much about the 223 valkyrie

I usually just stay with the older calibers. Afraid of buying a gun in a new round and not being able to find ammo for it.

It's a chamber with higher pressure and I think a slightly longer neck

it's just 223 remington with a larger piece of brass

ok, thanks

I think federal's ammo uses 90gr SMK's

which do not fit into most mags when loaded correctly

Dies already exist which is good

my target 223 wylde loads are all 69 and 77gr's

I mass prep 62gr SS109 for trash, since it performs well enough

lots of folks bitch about it but I've had absolutely wonderful success with them, getting moa groups without much filtering

It cheap and works well enough for field work.

yes

24.3 gr of H335 does really fucking well with minimal crimping

Never loaded my own ammo.

it's slightly below M855 in velocity by like 30fps on average using a sample of 100 each

I live in CA so I pretty much exclusively do it in anticipation for the 2019 ammunition purchase permits

also I do ELR stuff

and you really want fire formed brass for such things

You, with no ammo limits in my area and the fact that I stick to common and popular rounds there is no real savings for me to reload ammo.

yeah

I shoot some weird/expensive shit too that costs shitloads to buy

458 socom and 338 lapua are really expensive things to feed

The most exotic I get these days is 303 british

The prices for 338 lapua is ridicules

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeup

I decided the advantages outweighed going to the more common 300 winmag

If your using it for long range accuracy then yes.

It's just a little leap forward for where the transonic period occurs while putting a bit more on target in terms of weight

The added weight and some of the newer bullet designs really convinced me the most

interesting

They get super high BC's

.85's and above

berger OTM hybrids especially; but there are a bunch of monolithic solids for target shooting that are very nice

You'd never want to shoot an animal with one since it'd just go straight through, but for targets, why not?

When hunting, do you want ammo that pierce? Not sure but I assume you want to generally kill on the first shot.

When hunting you want enough penetration to reach the vital organs and not much more. The 338 lapua would go straight through anything you shoot. So its a lot of wasted energy and you have a high speed projectile still going down range.