pick my powder

[Castle Rock]

Nothing wrong with Varget, except the slow speed

It is only slow if you afraid to get after it, F class shooters are getting about 3000 with 80s, admittedly with long barrels

 

[Pharmseller]

I don’t exceed published maximums.

Did it once with TAC, it didn’t turn out well.





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[Castle Rock]

2208 (Varget) is a very tractable powder, unlike TAC

 

[Compressedload]

Loaded CFE223 extensively in my ARs for IPSC. Meters well. Found it ultimately to be too temperature sensitive to my liking. Was shooting 55 grainers FWIW.

 

[kkp005]

My tikka shoots 77gr tmks greatttt with Xbr 8208

 

[ddowning]

Varget is hard to beat. With normal throated chambers and even some with extra freebore, i haven't been able to stuff enough in there to get to pressure but I know I'm close. Typically I start noticing seating depth inconsistency from the amount of powder before anything else.

I havent had luck with CFE 223 in anything and I've tried it multiple times.

That's just my experience though.

Yep, CFE is not a good accuracy powder with heavy bullets for some reason. It works better for light bullets.

 

[allaue87]

Did you find a good load for this? I just took mine out to the range and couldn't get a 5-shot sub MOA group with 73gr ELDM and Ramshot TAC. The best group had maybe 0.5 MOA if I took out a flyer, but it can be better. I seated 0.020" off the lands like I would in my 6.5 CM rifle. I tried the following charges:
23.4
23.8
24.2
24.6

I didn't see any pressure signs at the highest charge, so I might go higher? I also have a CTR magazine so once I shoot these 73's , maybe I will switch over to the 75gr since I can load longer. I'm sort of committed on the TAC powder for a while before I can try something else. Any ideas for anyone else?

 

[huntsd]

Did you find a good load for this? I just took mine out to the range and couldn't get a 5-shot sub MOA group with 73gr ELDM and Ramshot TAC. The best group had maybe 0.5 MOA if I took out a flyer, but it can be better. I seated 0.020" off the lands like I would in my 6.5 CM rifle. I tried the following charges:
23.4
23.8
24.2
24.6

I didn't see any pressure signs at the highest charge, so I might go higher? I also have a CTR magazine so once I shoot these 73's , maybe I will switch over to the 75gr since I can load longer. I'm sort of committed on the TAC powder for a while before I can try something else. Any ideas for anyone else?

Going with varget and tmk 77 but I haven’t shot yet