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

[NWBLKTAIL]

Hope it works well! So far what was your best performer?

If I get around to finding some 73s I am going to try them with Staball Match first. Meters well and supposed to be temp stable so...would be nice. Cheap too. Relatively.

23gr XBR, 24gr varget shoots very consistent

 

[Igloo]

23gr XBR, 24gr varget shoots very consistent

Thanks. I have both but almost out of TAC so that works.

 

[wind gypsy]

So apparently I did a thing last night.

I 'won' a used, unknown history, 8-twist tikka .223 barrel.

It's shorter and threaded. My plan is to remove the long heavy 12 twist barrel from my Tikka 595 and be able to use 75-80 grain stuff in it. The 595 223 magazine will handle 2.42" so my plan would likely be to load something to 2.4". I have a pretty good idea on powders already on hand. I know the 77TMK would work and that's the easy button but since these will be loaded to 2.4" there's a part of me that would like to save the TMKs for use in an AR and load something with a different colored tip for easy ID as being bolt gun loads.

That means 75eldm, 80 eldm, or 80 eldx.

8 twist, most shooting will be at or near 660' elevation and temps could be anywhere from 10 degrees on up. Which would y'all choose as second place to the 77TMK?

73 or 75 ELDm. 73s seem to be less finicky.

 

[Chris in TN]

Thanks guys - reading between the lines, it sounds like just staying with the 77TMKs is the simple solution here.