.223 Reloads

[351 WINCHESTER]

A long time friend and avid reloader gave me some of his reloads in .223.

He said they functioned in his mini 14, but I just looked on hogdon's site and his load is below the starting load as below:

mil brass
55 gr. amax hornady and 55 gr. hornandy sp
22 grs. varget

Since this is below hogdon's starting load would this be safe to shoot in my ar?

 

[JDGray]

Load one, shoot, and look for a hole How many did he give you? If they function, shoot em. If not, hammer them apart, and load a little hotter.

 

[SquirrelNuts]

How far below? You usually reduce loads by a grain for mil brass. I show 22.8 as the start from Hornady #7 for those bullets and Varget powder.

 

[Valkman]

How far below?

I'd like to know also. I load 25.5gr Varget with a 55gr bullet, but I think my Speer #13 has a higher minimum than the Hornaday book.

 

[Mags]

Measure the over all length if they are shorter than recommended they will have more punch but may not engage the rifling just right.

 

[jpwilly]

They should shoot fine I don't think your going to have any issues Varget fills the case nicely. Those will just be a little slow.

 

[ants]

Yep, 22 grains Varget will shoot a 55 grain bullet in an AR perfectly.
Done that a thousand times.

Go have fun.