My load is 24.5 grains of Benchmark with a CCI-BR4 primer and I would have to check on the OAL. I have it in my load log book but that is currently up at the shop.
Basically, I seated the bullet to a depth so that I could JUST see the last bit of the grimping groove in the bullet and then I crimp the case mouth with a reasonable amount of crimp.
Please keep in mind this load a over what most loading manuals will recommend but in my rifle its producing pressures where it should be. If used in a faster twist rifle you may see more pressure. You may see more pressure even with same twist barrel because of barrel variations.
The 60 gr Ballistic Tip comes with load data inside the box. At least the 5, 250 ct boxes I got in had load data.
Back to the match bullets, remember that the 223 is rather anemic in velocity to start with so at ranges much past 300 yards, likely the match bullets with tight meplats will give little if any expansion. I am sure most of you know exactly what a coyote will do when hit with a bullet that does not expand, unless you bit support bone or central nervous system he will run quite a ways and often he will get to his den.
At long range the 60 gr BT certainly does not have explosive expansion but it does have expansion much more significant then any match bullet I have tested.
Another thing with the heavy match bullets, when seated to fit in an AR magazine, they will drop potential velocity by up to 150 fps compared to if that bullet could be seated out so the base of the bullet is at the base of the jacket. So, while the 70, 75, 80 and 90 gr bullets have a decent advantage in BC but often, for the useful range of the 223, even with these bullet, the faster medium weight bullets in the 55-65 grain range, especially tipped bullets will run with any of these bullets out to 600 yards and offer much better terminal performance, the choice is pretty easy for me.
