Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by Ground Control

Just finished working on a load with Hornady 60gn V Max bullets / 2206H powder and now want to load some Hornady 73gn eldm .
The ADI website suggests for a 70 gn bullet starting at 23gn and a max of 25gn ( 2206H powder ) , and for the 75gn bullet 22.5gn- 24.5gn
Logic would say in the middle of these recommendations would be correct for the 73gn , is that correct ?
Any advice would be appreciated.

The 70 grain Speer is a very blunt projectile that has to be seated deep so you would be better to use the 69 grain Sierra for your comparison. You would be lucky to get much more than 24.5 grains of AR2206H in the case without compression depending on mag and throat length.
GPM.