Inexpensive 223 powder

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Right now im using accurate 2015 21 to 23 grains looking for something a little less expensive but not crappy.want to save a little but don't want crappy powder
 
Nothing is inexpensive any more. Shooters World is about the least expensive but I've never used it. I use 2230 a lot and buy in 8 lb jugs. 748 works, Exterminator is the same as 2230. Best way to save is to watch for free hazmat sales at places with free shipping over a certain dollar amount and put in a large order
 
Most ball powders are cheaper than the stick powders. A 2230, H335, CFE 223, are some good ones. Also look at the VV powders, they used to be the most expensive, now they're the cheapest. VV 133 I have been using in 223 AI and 204 and it's very accurate stuff.
 
AWS said:
Nothing is inexpensive any more. Shooters World is about the least expensive but I've never used it. I use 2230 a lot and buy in 8 lb jugs. 748 works, Exterminator is the same as 2230. Best way to save is to watch for free hazmat sales at places with free shipping over a certain dollar amount and put in a large order
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Same here, I load 2230/Xterminator for myself and WW 748 for my hunting partner.
 
I was in a reloading store yesterday. I didn't see anything I would call cheap. Matter of fact, nothing even reasonable. $80 and tax for 8208??? $67 for H4350? They're killing us. If you want t shoot you have to pay....and they know it.
 
In 223 I mainly use CFE223 or Accurate 2230 but I have several others that will work for small calibers. Until I have no other options I'm not paying some of those prices. I have a friend at the club that orders powder for the skeet shooters so he get me some powders for my rifles when he orders. I got some 4895 the other day for $49 per pound. Still high but a lot less than the stores in Tulsa.
 
William Suter said:
I was in a reloading store yesterday. I didn't see anything I would call cheap. Matter of fact, nothing even reasonable. $80 and tax for 8208??? $67 for H4350? They're killing us. If you want t shoot you have to pay....and they know it.
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Definitely made us better shooters due to the cost of components
 
Cost of components got me out of shooting skeet. Shot, powder and primes cost is crazy right now. Cheaper or at least as cheap to just buy off the shelf. Rifle components are just as bad. I bought a pound of Accurate 4350 to try in a Creed and after tax it was $63. When working up a load you can burn a flat of primers in a hurry. I have a few Remington 6 1/2 primers with a sticker tag still on it, $1.99. LOL, those days are long gone.
 
Win 748 is an older powder and may not be as temp insensitive as some of the new Hod. Extreme powders but I used to use a lot of it in the very first AR I got back in the 80's and it worked as good as about any powder I've used. The nice thing about Win748 is it meters like water and throws very consistently in pretty much all of them so it's a great powder for progressives, and, it's one of those unique powders that works really well on light bullets as well as the heavier ones.

If I could only have one powder for a 223 there's a good chance I'd likely pick Win 748.
 
No wonder a fellow drove a full day, nearly 800 miles round trip, to pick up all my powder and primers. 11,900 primers @ $4/c and 49# of powder @ $20/lb.
 
i run cfe223 for most stuff these days. meters nice, gives good results (single digits SD) near max charges. multiple sub MOA loads developed with it.

8lb jugs can be had for ~ $300 - which will net you approx 2250 rounds. or roughly $0.135 per powder charge per load.
 
Shooters World is about as cheap as I've found, I buy Match, Tactical, good powders, they went up but not like Hodgdon's slew of powders.
These work good in 223 & 308, 30-30, .17 rem with med-heavy loads.
 
Shooters World has 2 ball powders primarily for AR 15.
Tactical Rifle and AR Plus

They were last powders to go up last time and I bought lots at under 30/lb at Scheels when blc2 h335 etc all went over $40/lb

They are all I use in 223 gas guns now....the Tactical Rifle can be downloaded to 17.5 grains and still cycle at 2600 fps.

Their data for this load was with 55gr bullet
I tried it with 40s and seemed good to go on 10 RDS or so, but they started jamming immediately on hunt,not chambering....unburnt powder would build up in chamber....on the 55s gun cycles just fine. Both powders are flash suppressed

Getting hard to find as it gets gobbled up for pest control in Ukraine


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BL-C2 & 335 usually less expensive option per lb. Another idea is IMR4198. Also up in price, but lower charge amounts-19 to 21 gr vs 23 to 26 of others, Downside is won't get top velocities except with the lighter bullets, upside is a bit quieter due to quicker burn rate.
 
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