Tell me about the Wylde chamber?

JJFBANDIT

JJFBANDIT

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I have noticed in shopping for my first AR, that there are 223 rem chambers and 223 wylde chambers. It is my understanding that the wylde chamber will shoot .223 rem and 5.56. Is the 5.56 bigger than the .223 rem? I would look at my reloading books, but I am 10,000 miles away from my reloading bench right now (deployed to central asia) and I am looking to get an AR right after I get home. (Christmas time) So, before I purchase one, what are the benefits, if any, to having a rifle chambered in the .223 wylde versus just .223 rem?

BANDIT
 
IIRC, you aren't supposed to shoot 5.56 in a .223 chamber because the latter is barely smaller and you might get high pressures. The Wylde chamber lets you shoot both calibers safely, plus it's supposed to be more accurate than a 5.56 (looser) chamber. I don't own one so I can't verify that. I'm just repeating what I've read. The actual differences are very small. You might try checking the ammo oracle web site......................Yeah, go here:
Ammo Oracle
 
Thanks a lot Jim,
That website is super informative. It answered several questions I had about ammo and chamberings.

BANDIT
 
Nothing to do with the subject, it just caught my eye, WYLDE, is my surname, and its the rarest way is spelled, only around half a dozen families in the uk spelt that way, sorry guys.
 
the wylde is a match grade 5.56 chambering so to speak, its lead is about halfway between the 223 and the 5.56, I have a 24" RRA varminter so chambered and it is impressive. shoots reman 223 ammo well below 1 moa.
RR
 
Except for the lead, the differences between the 3 are less than the tolerances allowed for all of them.

The actual leads are:

223- .025"
5.56 NATO- .0566"
Wylde- .0619"

The reason the Wylde has such a long lead is because it was designed for 1000 yard competition using the 70-90gr bullets. He wanted to be able to shoot the long bullets without giving up powder room in the case.

Unless you are going to shoot the VLD bullets the 223 chamber is the way to go. Most of the commonly shot bullets in 223 will not be able to get close to the lands in either the 5.56 NATO or the Wylde chambers.

Jack
 
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