Originally Posted By: Kino M
224V never was intended to run light bullets, period. Same goes for 6CM and 6ARC.
Unless its a custom reamer and barrel there us no guarantee. I see post after post of guys pulling their hair out trying to get those calibers to shoot the light bullets, some get lucky, a LOT don't.
I like betting on a winning horse and by that I mean people need to understand and educate themselves on how twist rates, freebore, bullet jump, maximum COAL and throating effects bullet selection and performance. I run stuff specifically designed as a complete system, not tweak stuff that was never designed to do.
I don't really care and I don't know why you quoted me. Mine does well with the 55's and 60's I've tried and I'm not pulling any hair out.
Anyways...
Update going into fall 2023:
I did end up getting a good day optic with a certificate I won at a match earlier this summer and my Sierra 55gr GameKing load with CFE223 is 1.25" at 100y from two 5-shot groups. Honestly better than I was expecting having never grouped it while just having the thermal on. 20" barrel, It was around 3450fps in 90* temps, no swipes but primers did start to get flat, but nothing terrible. I loaded a few pieces of brass 5 times that I know of and haven't found any signs of case separation using the paperclip test.
I've been out once this fall with it and my new thremal, iRay Hybrid 50, and killed one coyote at 150y. I'm going to load up two hundred of the 55gr SGK and roll with it this fall and winter.
With the day optic I loaded some 77gr SMK's and got them up to 2900fps and .75" groups. I'm going to explore that some more and try to take it to a couple long(ish) range matches when they start up again, might even try taking it to Raton next spring. I've taken my 18" 5.56 with 77gr SMK going 2700fps and its tough, maybe the 224V will perform better.
