Thread: 50 gr Vmax 223 Reloads

Gidday everyone, took my short 223 Tikka out last night with some 55gr Hornady Varmint Load Vmax to try instead of the 1ish MOA Belmont I normally use, not cheap at $45 a box. (50 round boxes for $75 very hard to find round Welly) It shot beautifully, at close to 1/4 MOA and no flyers from the box which I was really surprised with. I'm not keen to keep shelling out that much coin so will just start reloading for it. Is 2206H still most peoples powder of choice? Did a bit of reading on past forum posts. Keen to give the V Max a go for a while.
Any advice much appreciated

Okay, don't worry about replying. Numerous threads found regarding this. Carry on

Nothing wrong with 2206H in the 223 with a 55 grain pill.

I was using AR2206H with 55 Vmax in my T3 producing a tight little group

BM2 also works quite well in the rifle I tried it in. Yours may or may not agree, but that's where the fun is in finding out!

Originally Posted by Steelisreal

BM2 also works quite well in the rifle I tried it in. Yours may or may not agree, but that's where the fun is in finding out!

Spot on!

I tried a few things in my T3

AR2206H worked well with Sierra & Vmaxs

BM2 didn’t work for me with the above projectiles but worked a treat with 55gr Hornadies which are good little killers!

CFE223 is also another powder to try but I found it to be dirtier.

I've tried all the usual powders, and ended up using Benchmark 1 with 50gr V-Max.

24" barrel, quite a hot load, 3400fps, deadly accurate, use it for goat control and varmints out well past 300m.

Originally Posted by McNotty

Keen to give the V Max a go for a while.
Any advice much appreciated

Try the 53gr ones. 15% better BC vs the 50 or 55gr.
Didn't do well in my 14" barrel with 26gr of H335 though. Had 0.6 MOA @ 100m and 1.8 MOA @ 200m. Sierra Blitzking and Nosler BT grouping better...

yip use them and are happy as pig in pooh with terminal preformance..... 2206h works great...win 748 works good too.

Originally Posted by JaSa

Try the 53gr ones. 15% better BC vs the 50 or 55gr.
Didn't do well in my 14" barrel with 26gr of H335 though. Had 0.6 MOA @ 100m and 1.8 MOA @ 200m. Sierra Blitzking and Nosler BT grouping better...

Well bloody hell I never knew that. Checked on the website and bugger me it's true!

Problem is @JaSa, like a lot of blokes, I actually use the yellow tipped, less than half price bulk buy Z-Max. To the best of my knowledge they never made a 53gr Z-Max.

I see that the 53gr V-Max is a fair bit longer than the two either side of it.