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

55 grain Hornady #2266 and 28.5 grains of 2208 and a magnum CCI450 in PMC brass - this gives me 3307 fps from a 20" barrel. (I can neck size them for quite a while so its not even a hot load.)

But my general purpose load is really a 70 grain Speer. Which is 26.5 g of 2208 and CCI400 for 2950 fps out of the same 20" barreled CZ527


Both loads will shoot into around .75 to an inch for five shots depending on how I hold my mouth.