Looking for .223 75g Hornady A-Max Loading Data

[gmar]

I've searched Hornady and Hodgdon's website but they don't have any loads for this bullet. The two recipes I did find called for 24.5g of Varget. Does anyone have any experience with this bullet? If so, what was your recipe?

 

[Calamity Jake]

Any load data for a 75g jacketed bullet works it doesn't have to be specific to an A max.

Starting loads straight from a Hodgdon book for 75g bullet:
Varget 22.5
BL-C2 23.0
H335 21.0
H4895 22.5
H322 20.0
RL 15 24.9

 

[BadgerLB]

hope you're not trying to shoot this out of an AR... the projectiles are too long to load to mag length.

 

[GUN DOG]

I did some where, but I just e-mailed hornady & they e-mailed me back there data from their manual, give them a try they always have sent me data

 

[gmar]

hope you're not trying to shoot this out of an AR... the projectiles are too long to load to mag length.

If I make the OAL 2.25 it should fit the mag but will that be seating the bullet too deep?

 

[HiredHand]

If I make the OAL 2.25 it should fit the mag but will that be seating the bullet too deep?

You should be alright. The data I'm looking at list the COL as 2.250".

 

[gmar]

I just tried loading a dummy round to 2.25" and the bullet is setting really deep! I would say more than 75% of it is seated inside the brass.

 

[HiredHand]

Is there a particular powder you would like to use?

 

[gmar]

I would prefer to use either 2520, BC-L(2) or Varget just because I have it on hand.

 

[HiredHand]

75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon BL-C(2) 21.2 2200
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon BL-C(2) 22.0 2300
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon BL-C(2) 22.8 2400
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon BL-C(2) 23.6 2500
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon BL-C(2) 24.4 2600
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon BL-C(2) 25.2 2700

75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Accurate AAC-2520 18.6 2200
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Accurate AAC-2520 19.6 2300
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Accurate AAC-2520 20.5 2400
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Accurate AAC-2520 21.5 2500
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Accurate AAC-2520 22.5 2600

75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon Varget 19.4 2200
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon Varget 20.4 2300
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon Varget 21.5 2400
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon Varget 22.5 2500
75 Hornady A-Max or BTHP Hodgdon Varget 23.5 2600