I love my Savage Model 12 .223. I am really thinking of getting another one or the same gun in a 22-250. With a 40 grain bullet and 28.2 grains of Reloader 15, I can get 3,890 fps with the .223. I am going to see what it will take to get 4,000 fps out of it, but won't load it any more after finding out what it takes. My every day load is 28 grains of Reloader 15.

I recently went to a new to me shooting range and picked up over 500 .223 cases that were worth keeping. Another 150 or so were junk or had a berdan primer.