![]() ![]() I did order another Lee mould today, this time a 2-banger and hopefully it has the new style blocks so I can easily install a traditional HP pin in one cavity and also drill out the gas check shank in both of them. You can also load jacketed bullets coated with a waxy lube like Ben's or straight LLA and shoot those if you need penetration. Even with what I'm loading it's 20 more grains of lead than most any other. 22 Rimfire from a either a ballistic standpoint or a terminal one. First off, it's a repeater, not a single-shot, and it's magazine fed so you can load a whole whole bunch of those little pills in there. 223 in an AR-variant rifle can be a LOT better than. I have over 40 rounds through it now and it's clean as a bolt-action. I like these because they don't pogo the bolt out of battery and smut the works.particularly since I'm using a suppressor. It would take some heavy modifications to get any weight subsonic cast to cycle in an AR-variant rifle. Plus I can shoot all the regular 5.56 NATO and. At least I have a virtually silent repeater with my choice of magazines up to 100 round capacity.and didn't have to pay extra to have the barrel threaded for my suppressor-mount muzzle brake. So instead I saved a bunch of money by spending $875 to put together an AR just the way I wanted it (and it still has a bargain-bin carbine buffer tube kit, upper receiver, barrel, lower parts kit, and Chinese/Amazon AAC copy 12" keymod handguard). $309 was a little rich for my blood though, considering I'd have to have the barrel cut and threaded to suit my tastes. 223s there, all new and collecting lots of dust on a bottom rack. They also had at least ten birch-stocked. 22 Hornet off the rack new at my LGS last week, but remembered the super-slow twist rate. It also looks like gas checks will be unnecessary. 22 TCM and decided Titegroup would probably make the smaller case irrelevant vs. 22 rimfire is expensive and sometimes hard to get, and the other option of an integrally suppressed rifle barrel for a 10-22 or 77-22 that would knock down high-velocity bulk ammo to 1K fps was expensive and honestly, not as effective as 55 to 80 grains of home-cast goodness out of a. ![]() What I'm trying to accomplish here is a short-range, movie-quiet varmint-getter that uses a reloadable, cheap, widely-available cartridge. Seems that so far the 1-in-7" twist was a good choice for this build, hopefully it will do well with heavy jacketed bullets too. I have yet to take the rifle down and inspect the bore and gas system, but I will. All that was required was change the primer, charge the case, and seat a bullet. One bonus is I didn't have to resize the brass after the first go. My 35 YO Daisy one-pump pellet/bb rifle makes pretty much the same sound, I shot them side-by-side with pellets in the Daisy just to see. Both hammer strike and bolt/buffer clink were louder than the report through my 30-caliber suppressor, and bullet impacting very damp dirt at 15 yards noticeably louder than both. I may pull the buffer retaining plunger and spring out of the lower to take up the gap. The 2.5 grain load was starting to clink the bolt carrier against the buffer weight which to me as the shooter sounded just a little louder than the hammer strike. Good news is the 2.5 grain load closed 5-shot groups from 1" to 3/8" at 15 yards, so I think I'm done with load development except to buy a two-banger version of this mould, plain-base it, and HP one cavity. Mixed bag of odd SR primers (tula, win, cci).ġ.5 grains Hodgdon Titegroup = 830-ish fpsĢ.5 " " " = 960-iiiiiish, only got one to read and the others were compensated so not really valid. 250" in the seating die, chamber neck is. 256" bellmouth which gets knocked back to. Brass FL sized and expanded to basically. 225" with one very light coat of Ben's Liquid Lube before and after. Working with the Lee 224-55 bullet cast from basically WW alloy, sized. ![]()
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