Sorry Sean that was from about 15yrs ago. But now I'm interested because I have a Savage .223 4X4. It has a 20in. bull barrel on it and a stock that I built for it. I'm shooting Wolf 55gr hp's in my bushmaster, but I want this savage to drive nails.
Anyone here have an Armalite AR-10?
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Looks like a 1 in 9" twist look at the the Law Enforcement 10 Carbine. It's just like that one, with the old trigger.
roverMc said:
That sounds like it a fun Howitzer to take to the range! I've seen bullets up to 600gr for that beast. Freaking crazy pressures propelling that hunk of metal down the barrel
Love it.Yeah I shot an older 10pt with it on the run and hit him about dead center of his body. It knocked out a 3 inch piece of rib and he kept running. But he turned and headed dead away from me. I placed the bullet in the right rump and it crossed his body and exited out the left front shoulder, folding him up dead on the spot. Stop over in GA and you can shoot it.
60-70gr. should be great. Do you have access to a chronograph? Check your bullet speed to make sure your getting consistent results and the correct speed, then worry about adjusting the powder charge or burn rate. If your powder scale isn't consistent with the powder you use, you can forget getting good groups.
I like stick powders, but they are harder to meter than ball unless you weight and trickle every charge. I have not tried the dual base powders like 2230, it's supposed to work well.
I wish I could come have a beer in GA, I have a few hundred pounds of linotype at my parents in Birmingham that need to be melted down and cast.
I like stick powders, but they are harder to meter than ball unless you weight and trickle every charge. I have not tried the dual base powders like 2230, it's supposed to work well.
I wish I could come have a beer in GA, I have a few hundred pounds of linotype at my parents in Birmingham that need to be melted down and cast.
Thanks Sean I remember that it was a ball powder. I now use a digital scale and check the calibration every 10 or so bullets. Like I say, if you get to South GA look me up.
sean said:
Come on sean, there's gotta be SOME reason we have to go to GA. If anything, maybe it's a trail we haven't hit yet
God knows we have no decent trails within 25 miles of San Antonio. Sucks since they closed Salado and all those "development roads" we were driving on are now subdivision front lawns lol.
billb said:
After calling almost every store near me and finding out that an AR style rifle in 308/7.62 in this area is back ordered by any where from 4 to 10 months. I had found a Stag 6.8 spc (model 5) that was looking pretty good at $1000. Also, found out that some of the stores here will never get my business.. Some of these people wanted double MSRP.. Whhhaatttt!!
So as luck would have it, the gun show was in town this past weekend and just as I was about to give up having found nothing but .223/5.56 at every dealer table, I finally found a DPMS LR308 AP4 from a dealer that game up from Richmond. Needless to say, it followed me home. Should make a nice "all around" and "SHTF" rifle. Although, I'm probably also going to buy another upper with a longer barrel for those far away targets.
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Eric N. said:After calling almost every store near me and finding out that an AR style rifle in 308/7.62 in this area is back ordered by any where from 4 to 10 months. I had found a Stag 6.8 spc (model 5) that was looking pretty good at $1000. Also, found out that some of the stores here will never get my business.. Some of these people wanted double MSRP.. Whhhaatttt!!
Congrats - my brother has one and loves it.
sean said:
I've had real good luck with both of those powders as well using Sierra match 69g HPBT in both my Colt Match HBAR and my remington 700. I'm pretty sure the rem 700 has a 1:9 and the AR has a 1:11.
The .223 is a very easy round to reload actually. I've gone through thousands and have never had a problem. I was also reloading a bunch of 300 win mag but only had a chance to shoot a couple hundred as the range closed down near me. I'd love to get back into reloading. I used to load 9mm, 357 sig, 44 mag, .223, 30-06, and 300 win mag.