Tikka 223 73 vs 75 vs 80 eldm

[Castle Rock]

Yeah I have given up trying to push the boundaries with heavier bullets in the 223, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze
77 TMK and 73 ELDM are the sweet spot

 

[TX_Diver]

I had good luck with 75 ELD-Ms and N140 but I never shot them past 400 so it's hard to say definitively that they are that great. When I run out of TMKs and my new mags get here I'll go back to them though.

 

[Running on empty]

I have a tikka 223 cut to 18in that just refuses to group the 75eldm (~1.5moa) well with the dense sea level air in SEAK. Ive tried varget and Tac at different seating depths with no luck. Wanted to add this dataset since it echoes what others have found in this thread. I will be trying the 73eldm next since I have a tmk load that hammers and I need a similar practice round.

 

[Castle Rock]

Yep

 

[Pharmseller]

I have a tikka 223 cut to 18in that just refuses to group the 75eldm (~1.5moa) well with the dense sea level air in SEAK. Ive tried varget and Tac at different seating depths with no luck. Wanted to add this dataset since it echoes what others have found in this thread. I will be trying the 73eldm next since I have a tmk load that hammers and I need a similar practice round.

I’m using Benchmark in my Tikkas with 75 ELDM. Great accuracy and velocity.

Let me know if you have access to Benchmark.




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[Running on empty]

I’m using Benchmark in my Tikkas with 75 ELDM. Great accuracy and velocity.

Let me know if you have access to Benchmark.




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I don’t have easy access to benchmark. I went out and shot the 75eldms with Tac and couldn’t get them to group better than 1.5moa again. That said 24gr of Tac pushing the 73eldm is a phenomenal combo for this rifle. Shot back to back .5moa and .6moa 10 shot groups at 200yds. I think it’s a good fit for a 77tmk practice load.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

I don’t have easy access to benchmark. I went out and shot the 75eldms with Tac and couldn’t get them to group better than 1.5moa again. That said 24gr of Tac pushing the 73eldm is a phenomenal combo for this rifle. Shot back to back .5moa and .6moa 10 shot groups at 200yds. I think it’s a good fit for a 77tmk practice load.

I too just ran that combo through mine, that was my 77 TMK load 24gr of TAC and it hovered around 1.1moa on most days. I had shot factory 73 eldm ammo from hornady it was very good. Tried Varget first with the 73eldm very good 1moa 10 shot groups, but slow as expected. I didn't move my seating stem from loading 77tmk's and just loaded 73eldm with 24gr of TAC just to see and it shot good and gave me about a 2900fps avg for 10 shots.



First 10 fired from that load 6x swfa

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

I’m using Benchmark in my Tikkas with 75 ELDM. Great accuracy and velocity.

Let me know if you have access to Benchmark.




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