OK so loaded my first 223 rounds on my own tonight. Need you guys to just make sure I did not miss anything and also answer a couple questions
It was all once fired factory winchester brass. I FL sized it all and when I went to trim none needed trimming but to be uniform I trimmed all to 1.750.
After trimming I cleaned up the burs and case mouth with the little rcbs doohickey. I primed them with ccI small magnum primers and the rcbs hand primer. Got the primers pretty well flush.
OK here is the 1st question, why does the cfe223 powder stick to every darn thing?? Scale pan and especially my powder thrower. I ended up just dipping the powder out with my little scoop that comes with my Lee dies.
OK so I loaded 27gr of the cfe223 and was going to seat my bullet at 2.215 like my handy dandy book says buy the most seating depth I could get was 2.220-2.225 (my calipers are the devil).
It is a Lee dies and I also have the rcbs small base set that I did not try. I only loaded 5 rounds.
And I also cleaned the cases with the neck brush.
Load: 223
50gr vmax
27gr cfe223
COL 2.220-2.226
Primer CCI SRM
It was all once fired factory winchester brass. I FL sized it all and when I went to trim none needed trimming but to be uniform I trimmed all to 1.750.
After trimming I cleaned up the burs and case mouth with the little rcbs doohickey. I primed them with ccI small magnum primers and the rcbs hand primer. Got the primers pretty well flush.
OK here is the 1st question, why does the cfe223 powder stick to every darn thing?? Scale pan and especially my powder thrower. I ended up just dipping the powder out with my little scoop that comes with my Lee dies.
OK so I loaded 27gr of the cfe223 and was going to seat my bullet at 2.215 like my handy dandy book says buy the most seating depth I could get was 2.220-2.225 (my calipers are the devil).
It is a Lee dies and I also have the rcbs small base set that I did not try. I only loaded 5 rounds.
And I also cleaned the cases with the neck brush.
Load: 223
50gr vmax
27gr cfe223
COL 2.220-2.226
Primer CCI SRM