Acceptable powder drops for 223 plinking rounds

[JustMissedIt]

Loading bulk plinking ammo for my AR. 55gr FMJ with CFE223. I’ve not tried this powder in my Hornady powder drop yet. Heard it meters like water. I don’t want to trickle to exact weights on every load. I’m gonna be at 26gr. What is the acceptable spread? I seriously doubt I’ll get 26 every drop.

 

[powerspc]

Hornady lists the max load as 27.4gr if that helps. I try to stay within +/- .2 grains on my progressive for .223, but I had loaded up to the max charge on a single stage first without any pressure signs so I knew I had quite a bit of tolerance to play with.

24.8gr - 2800 fps
25.5 gr - 2900 fps
26.1 gr - 3000 fps
26.7 gr - 3100 fps
27.4 gr - 3200 fps [MAX LOAD]

 

[Dobbs02si]

Cfe223 in MY hornady thrower will throw +-.1 at most, normally it's better. I do not question it.

 

[Steel head]

W748 and CFE223 are great in powder measures.
Most of the time if you have big variations it’s your technique.
Don’t worry about it anyways, 223 bulk loads do great even with some variations.

 

[Dobbs02si]

Agreed..

I loaded 150rnds of 75gr bthp about a month ago for a guy at work with cfe. I checked the first 20 throws and it was less than .2 spread, closer to .1 so I started checking every 20rnd, no change. Gun will keep 20rnds inside 3/4"...that sold me on bulk loading 223.