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RC20 · August 29, 2013, 11:02 AM

Really? Barely enough to take a deer. If you want to knock a moose off you better be close enough to pump about 8 or those 30-30 thingies into it! At 150 yards you could stop one of the bullets with a piece of paper.

That said, shooting a 223 is just not as much fun (for me) as shooting a 30-06 or 270 (shooting WWI 1917s mostly these days).

More by accident I did come up with the most efficient powder for it (TAC or Varget) but that was due to powder desperation.

In the future I will only buy 8 lb containers and a couple of those will see me through any outage. Bullets and primers I keep enough backlog to not be an issue.

August 29, 2013, 11:02 AM	#16
RC20 Senior Member Join Date: April 10, 2008 Location: Alaska Posts: 7,014	Really? Barely enough to take a deer. If you want to knock a moose off you better be close enough to pump about 8 or those 30-30 thingies into it! At 150 yards you could stop one of the bullets with a piece of paper. That said, shooting a 223 is just not as much fun (for me) as shooting a 30-06 or 270 (shooting WWI 1917s mostly these days). More by accident I did come up with the most efficient powder for it (TAC or Varget) but that was due to powder desperation. In the future I will only buy 8 lb containers and a couple of those will see me through any outage. Bullets and primers I keep enough backlog to not be an issue.