.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.

Big_wals

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This is Horandy’s listing for the 22 ARC in a bolt gun. Pretty awesome with the 88’s. I recently grabbed a 22ARC in the new Ruger Gen 2. Once I have it put together I’ll update what I get with the 88’s. I’m excited to give it a go. It is definitely set up to shoot the longer bullets. I debated on doing the 223ai it looks sweet as well.
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What barrel length did you get?
 
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Anyone shooting n135 or n140? Seems cheapish.

I got a lot of n140 for a 6br build coming down the pipe. 290 for an 8lber could be good. Supposed to be fairly cool burning powder as well.


I went through 16lbs of n135 with the Hornady 75bthp. It was a really accurate powder for me but did not like to be stepped on, loaded at 223 pressures it was great but at 5.56 pressures the accuracy fell apart.
 

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BattleHawk Armory has the Black Hills 5.56 in 77gr TMK, but it's a bit on the steep side at $1.60 per before taxes and shipping, and they are either down to 7 boxes of 50, or you are limited to buying that many.
Saw that and was tempted. Last time I paid $1.36 per bullet all in with shipping. I still have a few thousand lying around for now, I hope it doesn't keep going up.
 

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Saw that and was tempted. Last time I paid $1.36 per bullet all in with shipping. I still have a few thousand lying around for now, I hope it doesn't keep going up.
I was also tempted, and your post got me to check my last price - $1.45 shipped with taxes. The current price for BattleHawk is (for me) between $1.77 and $1.83 depending on whether I would insure it. I don't have as many as you, so I "need" more. Same with 6.5 - the 147gr eld-m variety is running $1.71 shipped with tax. Decisions, decisions.
 

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This is Horandy’s listing for the 22 ARC in a bolt gun. Pretty awesome with the 88’s. I recently grabbed a 22ARC in the new Ruger Gen 2. Once I have it put together I’ll update what I get with the 88’s. I’m excited to give it a go. It is definitely set up to shoot the longer bullets. I debated on doing the 223ai it looks sweet as well.
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Is this chart for a 24” barrel?

Assuming 2800 FPS for a 20” barrel, that 88 ELDM would hold 1800 FPS to 750 yards at a DA 5000 feet. It’s also a 6 MPH gun for wind at that speed which is not bad at all.

Even at 2700 FPS assuming a slow 18” barrel or a fast 16” barrel you’d still be good to 675 yards. That’s hard to argue with for a compact setup with factory ammo.
 

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I’ll check those out.

I did a bit of research and found a couple folks saying they were unable to get the 73gr ELD-Ms to shoot well in their White Oak Armory barrels. That’s what I happen to have so I changed my order over to 69gr Sierra TMKs.
They shot great in my white oak barrel.
 
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Is this chart for a 24” barrel?

Assuming 2800 FPS for a 20” barrel, that 88 ELDM would hold 1800 FPS to 750 yards at a DA 5000 feet. It’s also a 6 MPH gun for wind at that speed which is not bad at all.

Even at 2700 FPS assuming a slow 18” barrel or a fast 16” barrel you’d still be good to 675 yards. That’s hard to argue with for a compact setup with factory ammo.
Yes, it's for a 24" barrel.

 

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Man the new episode of the hornady podcast is trash. They have some good info in there such as how their bullets work - VELOCITY and they give numbers for eldx, cx, and one other one - and not energy. Way too much fudd lore with magnum or bust. If it kills a deer it'll kill and elk. There is no such thing as an elk bullet vs a deer bullet.
 

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Man the new episode of the hornady podcast is trash. They have some good info in there such as how their bullets work - VELOCITY and they give numbers for eldx, cx, and one other one - and not energy. Way too much fudd lore with magnum or bust. If it kills a deer it'll kill and elk. There is no such thing as an elk bullet vs a deer bullet.
It’s not good for business to crash their own market by saying half of what they sell is unnecessary. Gotta sell them big PRC’s too!
 
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