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Yep. I like 748 but H4895 is the best. Since it's a "stick" powder it's just harder to run through the powder measure. Ball powders are preferable (at least to me) when loading large quantities of ammo. Like when I load the .223.
One more thing: I use mostly H335, because it meters well, shoots very accurately, and I've found it is THE powder in my win 94 30-30. In 30-30 it nets very high velocity, and is extremely accurate(six shot group at 25 yards is barely 30 caliber center-to-center).
I've been using H335, works great and meters well. I am looking into Accurate 2230C, Powder Valley has is in an 8 lb container for $63, that's quite a good price!
I fired 200 rounds of .223 yesteday of 13 gr Blue Dot and 60 gr SP moly, and the barrel never heated up.
Some of the ground squirels were blown in half.
Tho it's a bitch to meter, IMR 4064 is the most accurate I've used in .223. Apparently all those Camp Perry guys know something, they seem to use it too.
For 55 gr bullets, I have had good luck using surplus military powder. I use WC846, but I hear WC844 is the powder originally used for the .223 round. It is a ball powder like W748 or BL-C2. It is a lot cheaper than other powders. For heavier bullets, ie. 75 gr, I use RL-15.
I've had good results loading 223/55 gr and 30-30/130 gr with IMF 3031, but am interested in loading more for fewer $$. I was thinking of switching to 2230C, but am a little skeptical because it is about half the price of other powder. I've found mostly good reviews on the web, but....????
H335, W748 and N133 have all worked well for me w/ the lighter bullets. N140, Varget, RE-15, etc. for the heavier ones. I've used AA2230C and it is cheap and it does work well w/ 75gr BTHP's as far as I can tell. I think it's so cheap because it is basically a lot that is a little 'off', outside of AA's parameters for regular AA2230, closer to AA2460, so they package it in 8# jugs and sell it cheap. Works for me
Since this subject has resurfaced, I can relate to my previous post from a year ago, I talked about AA2230C, but hadn't tried it yet...well that has changed! The first group is a 3 shot group while I was testing various loads, the second group is a 5 shot group shot with the AA2230C load that worked best overall. The rifle is an AR15 with a 24" bull barrel with 1-8 twist.
100 yard groups
The rifle had been sighted in for this load after it was chosen.
what size barrel and what size bullet and charge do you use? Speaking of bluedot, that is....
I have a 12" MT'd and have been playing around with everything I can get ahold of...Just recently tried 26gr of RL15 and had some moderate success with nosler 40 gr. but I think I am going to go with the 50-55 gr. BT's and HP bullets to add flavor.
the tightest group I have had to date was with a load I did with xmp-5744 and 55 grain bthp's. It would hold .75 at 100 from sandbags. didn't have my chrono at the time, so I didn't know how fast they were going.
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