I’ve got a Remington 700 ADL sporter in .223 Remington. It has a 1-12” twist, which was popular when I bought this rifle. Over the summer I picked up 1000 hornady 55gr btsp with cannelure from Wes, on a smoking deal. My quest was to find a super cheap plinking load for my kids and I, with a bullet that would still be good to dispose of an occasional critter. So I dug out an 8lb can of accurate 2200 data powder that had been given to me years ago. So I took twice fired neck sized PMC brass, only ever fired in this gun, Winchester small rifle primers, and seated the bullets .010” off the lands. I started my powder charges at minimum and worked up in .3gr increments to max powder charge. 20.4gr to 23.4gr. These are my results.


JTD