I prefer the wylde over .223. It lets you push rounds into 5.56 pressures. I’ve heard fantastic things about compass lake engineering and their chambering. Might be proprietary with them and AR only but if there was a way to get a Remington 700 barrel cut to their specifications I’d rock that in a heartbeat.
Awesome, thank you all for the input. I will go "Wylde" and see how it shoots. Dropping it off at the gunsmith in the next few days.Lots of good results from folks with Wylde chambers. I just inquired with a smith about getting a new tube on my RSS and he doesn't have a wylde reamer but proposed just throating it longer to meet the wylde distance to lands.
This drove me to dig into the difference between 223 rem and wylde on chamber prints. It looks like with a throating reamer it should be pretty easy to get close on the throat, the leade angle might differ slightly. The main difference from there is the wylde has a little more diameter everywhere around the case which in theory should allow a little more powder before pressure, a little more chamber clearance on an identical sized piece of brass, and slightly more resizing of brass when it's sized by a 223 die. In the big scheme of things, there doesn't seem to be a wrong choice. My loaded LC brass measures around 0.253" neck diameter which is pretty tight on a 0.2550-0.2540" rem neck chamber. Lapua loaded neck dimension is more like 0.2510". If you're using LC or similar neck thickness brass, the wylde chamber would be more desirable to me.
Forgot to add he was shooting the 64 grain Sierra Tipped Game King ammunition. It groups well in the Tikka.
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I’m very tempted to order a couple boxesI’d love to see some data on what these non-lead DRT 79 gr loads do on game. Anyone try them yet? They seem like they’d be a much better approach than most of the other non-lead options, and the BC is actually a little better than the 77 gr TMK. I saw a post in the 6.5 thread of someone who used the 135 gr .264 on a Roosevelt elk. The wound channel looked impressive. Would be interested to hear about lower end upset velocities.
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I wish I could just "muck" around with different bullets on a regular basis. Major jealousy.
I would like to try the 79 DRT projectiles too but they don't freight to NZ.
No I haven't used the tipped ones. The tips come seperate with the projectiles and you have to put them in yourself. Seems odd. I guess the tips might improve the BC by a smidge and perhaps start the upset/expansion a bit quicker but I cant see much advantage for a .223.
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Hammer is having the customer install the tips until they get machines set up to do it rather than holding off a year or more to release them. I’m pretty sure they tested the tipped version extensively on game of all sizes in Australia, Africa, and NA. The main priority is terminal performance for their bullets. I believe their tester in Australia tried to make these tipped bullets fail and couldn’t. Along with shooting animals at severe angles and hitting bone, and damaging tips on purpose before using.
223 77gr TMK 2775 fps MV
140 yards downhill quartering away
One shot. (Actually hit where I was aiming)
20' or two jumps from impact to laying stone cold dead
Clipped the liver, destroyed lungs, tomato soup.
Zero meat ruined.
Hi mate. Interesting to hear. Which 80 grain Berger specifically?
