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Reloading .223

RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
edited October 2005 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
I am new to reloading. I want to reload .223 for an AR-15 and Mini 14. I have a RCBS rockchucker press. What dies should I buy? Do I want full length or small base? I would like to stick with RCBS dies but I am open to suggestions if there is a reason.
Thanks in Advance


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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am new to reloading and will be reloading for an AR 15 and a mini 14. I bought a used RCBS rockchucker. What dies should I buy to start my new adventure? Thanks in advance.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is it worth it to reload the .223?
    I have heard that most of the AR's are finicky eaters.

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  • je2140je2140 Member Posts: 225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've had good luck reloading for AR as long as you use small base dies to fully resize (have AR15 & AR10), regular dies might work if you already have them. I don't find AR design as finicky as commercial semi auto's. My reloads are as reliable as factory.

    You can probably reload .223 for around 12 cents a round using mil surplus bullets and powder, if you can find milsurplus components locally and not have to pay hazardous shipping charges for powder and primers. You can get good buys on bullets on ebay

    I know of several selling mil surplus components in St. Louis, Kentucky, and Ohio.

    I reload 223 because I don't know any good cheap milsurplus ammo.
    You can buy 308 South African from aimsurplus.com for what you can reload 308 for and it is good stuff.

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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't shoot my AR enough to bother, The Black hills stuff works good in it and it's cheap.

    On the reload aspect mine is very finicky eater it hates some mil-brass, likes others.

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  • richbugrichbug Member Posts: 3,650
    edited November -1
    My AR will not work on reloads with the Bushmaster, D+H, Labelle, or DPMS mags. It runs them 100% on wolf, and win white box, but when I reload the WWB brass, they miss feed about 10% of the time. The reloads work well in Center, Okay and colt mags.

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  • richbugrichbug Member Posts: 3,650
    edited November -1
    My cheap blasting ammo load is either 25 grains of WC846, 25 grains of 2230C, or 26 grains of Varget on whatever brass I have lying arround, with a CCI 400 primer and the cheapest 55 grain bullets I can find. cost can be $10 per 100 or slightly less.

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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think it's worth it to reload. You can get excellent accuracy in a bolt action and better accuracy in an AR than with mil-surp. My favorite load in my 12fv is 24 gr. of xmr2015 behind a 55 gr. v-max or 60 gr. Sierra.

    If you like accurate volume without reloading go with Black Hills, or the cheap Winchester stuff. I've shot 1/4" groups with it.

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    edited November -1
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  • Grunt2Grunt2 Member Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nothing more satisfying than plunk'en your own home rolled rounds down range and on target...And there is no such thing as "Good Cheap Ammo" or "Cheap Good Ammo"...You get what you pay for..

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