Best All Around or Most Versatile 223 Load 

What's the matter with you? Most youtubers would take an hour and a half to get to the point! Thanks for not wasting my time, I wish more would get to the point like you.

Are you nuts? The 24gr H335@ 200 yards in the AR-15 is a winner. The group is barely larger than your 100yd groups.

Just from what I see, you have it locked down better than any one I know of. Great job.

I am an old fuddy duddy. I use H4895 for just about everything. Old school...

Alot of great powders for 223, or 5.56. Just depends on the gun, bullet weight, and one's expectations. For 40 to 60gr. bullets h-335, h-322, win 748, blc2, tac, accurate 2230, and maybe best of all Hodgdon Benchmark. Good luck trying to find that one. Kinda like trying to catch the lochness monster.

Love H335 loaded at 25.0 and 25.3 grains. Very accurate out to 300 yards for me. Also love CFE 223 at 25.1, 25.5, and 26.5. The latter is pretty hot, but performs quite well.

I think you shot great, I dont like the hornadys for precision though. I thnk you would tighten the groups up useing sierra or bergers

After rechecking the Roofing on the targets I have to agree with you in that ar-comp did the best

Take them all out to 300. Or just ARComp and H335. That H335 group being at 200 yards vs. the rest being at 100 would be enough to pick that one for me.

Great video. Good info..For 60 gr vmax. Good load with 26.5 gr r15 is my load favorite. I have good results with 26.5 gr IMR4320 with 60s and have a bolt same load with 65 gr Sierra spbt. 3268 fps in one rifle and 3347 fps in another. .036 in grp at a hundred yards. I do moly coat my bullets. One Savage I have does 1 1/2 inch groups at 300 yrds with 27.5 grains Varget/ rem 7 1/2, lc93 brass all prepped and weighed 1/4 grain withininch. Another load aa2460 at 26.5 gr 3190 fps. I use h335 for some 55gr but mostly 50s and 40gr . I have used about every powder for 223 made from fast to slow, what ever the rifle likes. Found where higher loading density seems best. Rule of thumb for me, slowest powder near 100% density, with decent velocity gives best groups. All barrels 26 inch.

i love h335. was one of the very first powders i ever reloaded with. i always stayed on the lower end of the chart with 21.5 grains, a 55gr btfmj, and cci 450 primer. the groups was around .3 moa at 50 yards and .5 at 100. later i switched to ramshot powders with the same results. the reason of switching is how clean ramshot tac and exterminator shot. my rifle is a dmps lower and upper with a whiteoak 1/9 twist barrel. free floated hand guard

I run AR Comp in my 223 all day long. One of my other favorites is IMR 8208XBR for my 22-250 which also burns VERY accurate in my 223 Neither powder is effected by hot/cold temperature. Bullets: Hornady V Max 60gr. Barrel: 223 20inch 1/8 twist | Barrel: 22-250 24inch 1/12 twist Both guns: Howa 1500 SA bolt rifles and @ 100yds = inside of a dime (5 shot groups) all day long. EDIT: Love your channel. Liked & subbed! Thank you!

I would select the most consistent group you and always adjust your scope a few mills to correct point of impact.

For you and your rifles I’d say AR Comp. For me I’d go with H335. All I shoot is ARs. None of them have what you would call a quality barrel. I shoot all 5 shot groups and I have several loads that shoot very well.

At comp rules in your rifles! Great shooting great load for both rifles.

H335….200 yard groups are about as tight as the other 100yard groups…looks to be about 1/2 moa

Availability will take president over what you like.

I’d say the AR comp load of those three look the best. Might want to look at Varget as well. My 1:9 CZ 527 loved the combination of about 26grs of varget under a 69gr SMK. I use the same load for my 1:8 AR. Btw... I met you and your buddy at the range last weekend. I was shooting the blue benchrest rifle. I realized when I got home that I had watched your suppressed marlin video and the series on small revolvers (comparing the 640 and Kimber) which is why your voice sounded familiar. lol. Nice vids and I hope to run into you again at the range!

I've had great luck with H335 in multiple guns .

Great shooting and excellent information!! How fortunate that both your guns like the AR Comp powder - I have a Howa .223 that shoots sub MOA but think I'll see if I can track down some AR Comp powder for giggles 'n' grins.

Imr 3031 62gr fmjbt been a good repeatable and consistent setup for me.

At 200 yards that H335 looks good. Should shoot the other powders at 200 yards to make a fair judgment call.

I agree with your choice of load for your rifles, it looks like it works well in both of your rifles. Have you ever tried the 75 gr HPBT bullets? I am getting ready to test some of these using a 16" and a 20" 1x8 twist barrels using Data 2200, Varget, and some H4895. Everything I have read claims the 75 gr bullets out of the 1x8 twist are very accurate out to longer distance. I have also helped a few ground hogs take a dirt nap using open sights on a Ruger Mini 14 using standard 55 gr. surplus ammo. Back in the late 70's Hornady had a bullet numbered as a 2260 SX I believe. I loaded some of these for ground hogs, 1 shot 1 kill. SX stood for Super Explosive, I think , great varmint bullet. Thanks for your video.

Ramshot Tac is a powder I want to try after powder becomes more widely available again that stuff works pretty good from what I hear

Well I don't know when you made this video bro but I finally found some powder in stock directly from Hodgdon and I got some 2230 coming the city part is I'm new to this platform so I didn't really have any powder like pre-pandemic you know I have plenty of 45acp powers because I shoot a lot of pistol rounds and I didn't having interest buying an AR platform rifle until recently when Joe Biden said I didn't need one I figured I needed a couple. LOL where I live in areas I hunt it's pretty much useless because even with the heaviest bullets lacks the punch that was saying thirty-ought-six for 3030 has behind the bullet lead to punch through brush and will cycling's and still carry enough energy to takedown Digger game but it would definitely be effective against two-legged assailants or targets whatever term is preferred. Anyway I didn't have any powder except for leverevolution as far as rifle power. Since it was my first rifle I figured I'd go with a complete upper and complete lower because I was not sure of what all parts are needed to build one, but now I'm learning pretty quickly. I got a ke arms KP 15 complete lower because it was a one piece poly injection molded lower with an A2 style stock, its insanely light, but mitigated the weak point where the reciever links up with tue adjustable stock, after watching two buddies break theres before I wanted to avoid that issue. For my upper I got a good deal on a 16" upper with a 15" M-Lok handguard from Bear Creek Arsenal in 5.56, it also came withthe BCG too. I was suprised to see how accurate it is for a budget complete upper. I am going to be working loads with Hornady 55grain SP-BT w/Channelure ovsr some accurate 2230. For now though I have been using LVR in my 223 cases under the same bullets...I had found load data for heavier bullets but not for 55grain...it took me 3 days of internet searching and I ran across a forum where a few guys had pioneered a load using 55grain bullets with LVR during the Obama shortage. They started with 25.5g of LVR and the accuracy was so so, itnwas the same when duplicated the load but they had posted 26.0g fills the case and still gives just enough room to not be a compressed load. I worked my way up to that and its strong enough to cycle my BCG and its more accurate than M855 I can't wait for that 20 to 30 to get here so I can start playing around with it. I hope my information was helpful somebody call me if they're out of powder for their 223 / 556 started 25.5 of leverevolution if you got it I haven't pushed the envelope past 26.0 so I will say if anyone goes beyond that is doing so at their own risk. LVR does burn a bit dirtier in an AR but it'll function in a pimch

My cz shoots sub 3/4 inch with any bullet using varget or blc2.same with my ar with black hole barrel 100 yard s

AR comp. I shoot the reloader 15 with a 60 grain V-Max 1 in 7 twist White Oak armament I think that's a Wilson Combat Barrel

Reshoot this drill again on a NON-windy day.

50 rounds more of each load. If same result. They are all excellent loads.

H335

I would not use H335 to shoot at a possum! you asked.

Ar comp load man.

How come you did not mention the primers you were using?