Benchmark & 50gr. NBT's for .223Rem.

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What is your faverite load using Benchmark and 50 grain NBT's for your .223's? Yes, yes, yes, I know all about reducing the load to start with.

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With a 50 gr NBT or a VMax, I use 26.5 gr of Benchmark in several 223's and have never seen that load be max for any of them.
 
26.0 grains of Benchmark, 52gr HPBT Hornady match, Fedral match primers,Winchester or L/C brass,remington classic 24" barrel, 1 in 12 twist, shooting in the .3, Also works good in the AR-15 24" barrel,1 in 9 twist.
 
Dan Carey thanks for the tip on the Benchmark powder. When We got back from the P-Dog shoot in wyoming, I switched to benchmark and was really pleased with the tight groups in both guns. The 52 grain bullets shot better then the 50 grainers. GENE'O
 
What velocities are you seeing with this combo? I too have a 700 classic in .223; very happy with it. Just never tried benckmark.
 
Coleridge with the 50gr V-MAX Hornady 26.5 grs of benchmark the velocities running 3265 fps (in Classic) . The 52grs hpbtmatch Hornady, I haven't checked velocities yet.
The AR-15, with the 50 gr V-MAX same load 26.5 grs benchmark, is running 3350 fps. The differance is the 1 in 9 twist.
I like my classic a lot, I put a HS stock on it, becouse of coyote hunting and didn't want to mess the stock up , and have shot over 100 coyotes with it. On Rock Chucks I'm shooting out to 500 yards. In a .223 I can't ask for a better off the shelf gun.
On the AR-15 I'm still working on a tighter groups using benchmark powder. The AR is going to work out great this fall on Coyotes. GENE'O
 
I just got a new AR15 Varmiter and on the first trip to the range I used the 25.5 Benchmark loads w/50gr.Hornady that I had loaded for my Encore and they shoot great although the bullets were seated too long for the clip. My quetion is to Gene'o are you using a small base die and are you crimping the loads for your AR15. I was not planning on doing either of these but maybe I should.
 
I'm not crimping any on the AR. The OAL is 2.235 and work with the loads and switching primers. The winchister 748, 27.2 gr powder,fed match or winchester primers, 50 V-MAX, winchester or L/C brass, shoot great under 1/2" groups. But benchmark burns a lot cleaner over all for me. Thats why I've gone to benchmark. Also I'm using a 4X12 Leupold on both .223 guns, If I put my 6.5 X 20 leupold on eather one of these .223es I'm sure the group size would emprove. But I've got them set up for Chucks and Coyotes
 
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