I just bought a Ruger Mini-14 (receiver is stamped .223 Rem but the owners manual says it's really 5.56 NATO) I bought a box of Remington .223 ammo at Walmart, and I've ordered 300 rounds of M855 (62 grain) and 200 rounds of some kind of 55 grain FMJ's, and 200 55-grain SP bullets. It'll be another couple of weeks before I get a chance to shoot it cuz I'm a weather wimp and this is Minnesota.
I have 250 pieces of range pickup .223 brass, and a couple of thousand SR primers. I *thought* I had a jug of AA2230 powder already, but I just checked and it's AA2520.
I know that's a little slow, but will it work with 62 grain projectiles? Or do I really need to use powders on the fast side since the Mini-14 has a similar op-rod mechanism to a Garand?
It'll be at least a month before I really need to start reloading for this one, if I need to order some new powder (WC844?) that's not gonna kill me...