Thread: The “you can’t go wrong” .223 load

Originally Posted by Sakoswarosorted

I noticed on a lot of rifles throughout the years that there seems to be particular loads with various calibers that you simply can’t go wrong with, for example 92- 94gr of 2225 in a 338 edge with a 300gr or 72/74gr of 2217 in a sako 7 rem mag with the 162sl and so on. These such loads seem to always be bang on with various rifles. Is there such a holy grail load in a 223 that you just can’t go wrong with? Am a confident reloader

Components are :

Sako 85 varmint 1/12 twist
Lapua brass unfired
Redding bushing dies

Want to shoot deer so am thinking 55gr non match bullets

Greetings @Sakoswarosorted,
After many years of loading the .223 I have settled on 25.5 grains of AR2206H behind the 55 grain Hornady in US cases. This produces 3,130 fps in my T3X and excellent accuracy in all the rifles I have tried it in. Your Lapua cases are a lot heavier than the cases I have been using and capacity may become an issue so for them perhaps 25 grains would be the Magic load for projectiles in the 50 to 55 grain range suited to you 1 in 12" twist.
Regards Grandpamac.