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    Well, I have been listening to you guys, so I went back and leaned on my 70 grains loads a little bit. Figuring I cant get enough 2208 in a .223 case to hurt anything too badly, I now have the 70 grainers going 2988fps for a 1.1 inch group.
    I figure this is a warmish load. But normal extraction and I can still neck size the cases and use them again. Allowing for the shorter barrel length, it will have to be around the same pressures as the book max.
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    Sounds like you’re in the ballpark to me. My 6x45 sends a 70gr pill at 2950fps from an 18” barrel. Could go hotter, but not by much, it’s on the ragged edge really….
    That’s with H322, a good deal faster powder than 2208. I would have thought that 2206H would be the ticket for heavies in the .223, but I wouldn’t go against @Flyblown on this one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick View Post
    I would have thought that 2206H would be the ticket for heavies in the .223, but I wouldn’t go against @Flyblown on this one.
    2206H worked well with the 70 grain Speer but didn’t give me quite as good accuracy as the 2208. But there wasn’t really much in it. I think as usual that’s probably down to the individual rifle than a generalisation. The velocity was pretty much the same as well. At the end of the day I had a 4kg bottle of 2208 ready to go. If I had to load up the next batch with 2206H it wouldn’t be a problem.
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    @JohnDuxbury how did you get on???? surely you got out and shot SOMETHING.....
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