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.223 to a Mile?
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1317704" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>I shoot to 1000 all the time with a .223. Easy as pie. </p><p></p><p>Benchmark or BL-C(2) work great. Other powders work well but I've gotten best performance with these. Loaded to touch the lands. I got up around 24grains of either. Hornady 75gn BTHP (stabilized well at 9 twist) or 73gn ELD-M or Berger 70gn VLD. CCI 5.56 spec primer or CCI Magnum SRP. This is all on commercial brass. Don't like .mil brass for this. </p><p></p><p>With that on a 24 or 26" barrel I'm getting 2950fps. It'll make it to 1000 METERS going transonic at sea level. At 1000ft ASL you'll get to 1000 METERS supersonic. That's 1100yrds so you should have no trouble at all at 1000yrds. </p><p></p><p>Good Luck. If you want more specific details PM me.</p><p></p><p>As far as getting to a mile, you end up needing 200MOA+ of up. Sport optics generally can't do that even with a 20MOA base. I had to use 40MOA in the rings, 20MOA in the base and over 100MOA in my turrets plus all 10mils of my reticle when I tried it and I still couldn't get them there. But it's pointless anyway... there's no getting there supersonic and you'll see all kinds of nasty after 1200yrds in my experience. The bullets are coming in so steep that any hit is basically luck just that far and that's if the bullets don't destabilize right about there. By the time you get to 1760yrds you're just lobbing metal downrange half blindly and you can't even see hits in the dust because they lack energy. Hits are going to be luck if anything and almost undetectable when you do. Yeah, you can point a rifle up in the sky and make them bullets go real far but you will not be able to determine where they'll ahead of time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1317704, member: 96226"] I shoot to 1000 all the time with a .223. Easy as pie. Benchmark or BL-C(2) work great. Other powders work well but I've gotten best performance with these. Loaded to touch the lands. I got up around 24grains of either. Hornady 75gn BTHP (stabilized well at 9 twist) or 73gn ELD-M or Berger 70gn VLD. CCI 5.56 spec primer or CCI Magnum SRP. This is all on commercial brass. Don't like .mil brass for this. With that on a 24 or 26" barrel I'm getting 2950fps. It'll make it to 1000 METERS going transonic at sea level. At 1000ft ASL you'll get to 1000 METERS supersonic. That's 1100yrds so you should have no trouble at all at 1000yrds. Good Luck. If you want more specific details PM me. As far as getting to a mile, you end up needing 200MOA+ of up. Sport optics generally can't do that even with a 20MOA base. I had to use 40MOA in the rings, 20MOA in the base and over 100MOA in my turrets plus all 10mils of my reticle when I tried it and I still couldn't get them there. But it's pointless anyway... there's no getting there supersonic and you'll see all kinds of nasty after 1200yrds in my experience. The bullets are coming in so steep that any hit is basically luck just that far and that's if the bullets don't destabilize right about there. By the time you get to 1760yrds you're just lobbing metal downrange half blindly and you can't even see hits in the dust because they lack energy. Hits are going to be luck if anything and almost undetectable when you do. Yeah, you can point a rifle up in the sky and make them bullets go real far but you will not be able to determine where they'll ahead of time. [/QUOTE]
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