Amping up a 223?
#21
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 64
Oh I have a 308, 243, and 3030 for deer. It's not about shooting those ranges, it's just wanting to maximize something everyone is familiar with. I just want to do what others haven't. Plus ammo is cheap, recoil is minimal, it's common, and just a all around fun gun. I wouldn't mind hunting at extended ranges. It's just getting there and getting good at it.
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Eastern wv
Posts: 3,647
I've probably taken over 100 deer with a 223, yes they kill deer, yes they will kill a deer at 500yards if you hit them right, but you won't find but a fraction of them.
I've killed a lot of deer way beyond 500, many past 750, more than a couple past a grand, so this is what I have found from shooting deer with a 223 and at extended range with other rifles.
1) the first blood you will normaly find will be after you see the dead deer shot with a 223
2) they will all run with a 223 unless you take out the CNS (brain/spine)
3) at 500 yards your deer runs out of sight it is extremely diffacult to find where the deer was standing at the shot without snow cover and still hard with it
4) the more distance increases the more it exacerbates #3
5) there are no bullets suitable for deer made in .224 that have a high SD and BC which is what you need for long range accuracy
if you shoot 1/4 moa from a bench at 100 yards, and at 500 yards your shooting 1MOA, most likely the bullet is a lower BC/SD bullet which just doesn't fly well as range increases, I have proved this many times with many rifles.
take a fast twist 223 loaded with a 75 gr a-max and its fun to shoot targets at 750, but the 223 will never be a 500 yard deer rifle with todays technology, nor in the foreseable future.
Its just the way it is
RR
I've killed a lot of deer way beyond 500, many past 750, more than a couple past a grand, so this is what I have found from shooting deer with a 223 and at extended range with other rifles.
1) the first blood you will normaly find will be after you see the dead deer shot with a 223
2) they will all run with a 223 unless you take out the CNS (brain/spine)
3) at 500 yards your deer runs out of sight it is extremely diffacult to find where the deer was standing at the shot without snow cover and still hard with it
4) the more distance increases the more it exacerbates #3
5) there are no bullets suitable for deer made in .224 that have a high SD and BC which is what you need for long range accuracy
if you shoot 1/4 moa from a bench at 100 yards, and at 500 yards your shooting 1MOA, most likely the bullet is a lower BC/SD bullet which just doesn't fly well as range increases, I have proved this many times with many rifles.
take a fast twist 223 loaded with a 75 gr a-max and its fun to shoot targets at 750, but the 223 will never be a 500 yard deer rifle with todays technology, nor in the foreseable future.
Its just the way it is
RR
#23
You're FAR from the first guy that has sought out high ballistic coefficient bullets, running really fast, even in the .223rem. That's why you see new bullets like the VLD's with improved BC's and why you see guys blowing out the shoulders on 223rems to create 223AI's. ONLY SO MUCH POWDER FITS IN THE CASE, THE BULLET IS ONLY SO BIG, AND THE CASES/RIFLES CAN ONLY HANDLE SO MUCH PRESSURE.
You can never drive a car to the moon.
#24
You're FAR from the first guy that has sought out high ballistic coefficient bullets, running really fast, even in the .223rem. That's why you see new bullets like the VLD's with improved BC's and why you see guys blowing out the shoulders on 223rems to create 223AI's. ONLY SO MUCH POWDER FITS IN THE CASE, THE BULLET IS ONLY SO BIG, AND THE CASES/RIFLES CAN ONLY HANDLE SO MUCH PRESSURE.
#27
I'm checking out of this one as well. It was a fun goose chase at first, but now we're chasing ostriches with laser eyes. As a new technology development engineer, I often use this line: creativity, ingenuity, and innovation are never to be confused with bong water fantasies.
#28
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 332
M855
M855 and M193 is ran at higher pressures than your 223 remington.
I shoot alot of M855, and can hit "area" targets with it at 500meters.
Man's torso is hard to hit but very doable. 55 and 62gr are really designed for 300 meter human targets and 400 meter area targets.
But like some said, if you load 75gr high BC, 500 meter human torso targets are extremely doable.
I shoot alot of M855, and can hit "area" targets with it at 500meters.
Man's torso is hard to hit but very doable. 55 and 62gr are really designed for 300 meter human targets and 400 meter area targets.
But like some said, if you load 75gr high BC, 500 meter human torso targets are extremely doable.
#29
Likewise for reasons being discussed here, I will be purchasing a .308 AR 10. I could give all the obvious points as to why but will add that as a reloader...I can load light .308 ammo for plinking and still be more powerful than any .223 ammo.
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
Or conversations that go like, "Well, don't try this, but one day bill decided to try this, and at the funeral they had a closed casket because...."