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Several threads in GD about it. As that is off topic in this forum, all I'm going to say.

Please don't send me any more IM's, I know. 

Bullet, home cast, powder coated bullets from the Lee 55gr FP mold.
Sized to .225 with a Hornady gas check. Lee pass through bullet sizing die. Tried no gas check before, results were horrible.
Used range scrap and wheel weights for the lead. No water drop, or hardening. Powder coat takes care of all of that.
Range was 25 yds, shot off double sand bags off a fold down table. 3x9 scope on 6x.
Fired from my home built 16 inch, 1 in 9, heavy barrel AR. Free float forend, RR trigger. (Rock River)

The load; LC cases, the last of my Tula SR primers. Will use Wolf SRM in the future.
Case mouth expanded with a Lyman "M" die, bullet seated to crimp grove, and a light crimp with a Lee FCD. (factory crimp die)
Powder type and amount is on targets.
If I say load cycled, it means round fed from mag and when fired chambered next round. BCG locked back on last round in mag.



First up was IMR-4895 and IMR-4227. All loads cycled. 22 grs of IMR-4895 shows promise, will retest. No pressure signs either powder.



Finished with IMR-4227, a promising powder. Adjusted POA to top of diamond.
Couple groups with 5744, done with this powder.
All loads cycled, no pressure signs.



H-4198 what a sweet powder. Good groups just got better as I worked up. Going to load 16.0 grs again.
All loads cycled, no pressure signs.



IMR-4320, I was really surprised with this powder. What I use in 7-30 Waters in a Contender.
Tac, this load was too light. Unburned powder in chamber, had to clean chamber, didn't cycle.



2400, 14.0 grs short stroked, 15.0 grs cycled fine. A promising powder.
IMR-4320, good groups, cycled.



Last of the IMR-4320 groups, 20.0 grs group started to open up. Both loads cycled.
Finished off the day with some Hornady 55 gr FMJBT's and AR Comp. PMC brass, Wolf SRM primers. Bullet seated mid cannelure, light crimp with Lee FCD.



More AR Comp groups. 25.5 grs looks pretty good. All AR Comp loads cycled.

eta, some of these loads you will not find in reloading manuals, I'm posting my results, load at your own risk.
I started at 10.0 grs 2400 and worked up. Range session before this started at 10.0 grs 2400 and worked up to 13.0 grs.
First 2400 load in this report was 14.0 grs and it didn't cycle.

Click on pic, then hold Control and tap on the + key to enlarge pics.

So my best loads were;

15.0 grs IMR-4227
16.0 grs 2400
16.0 grs H-4198
21.0 grs IMR-4895
22.0 grs IMR-4320


eta, a link to a 223 cast bullet thread from 2014. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_42/425608_A-guide-to-casting-for-the-AR-15.html

Hornady gas check used.

I sent off for some samples of Aluminum gas checks and was not impressed.

Maybe they weren't annealed, don't know. The Hornady's work for me.

My range session before this one I didn't have a load that cycled.

I was quite pleased that almost all my loads cycled.

Sorry I missed you tonight.

Link, click on the link, it's what I was trying to get you to see.

That's a couple of  advantages with powder coating over plain lube,

1) Diameter of the bullet is less critical
2) Lead alloy is less critical

My bullets alloy is range lead, unknown bricks of lead a friend gave me, and wheel weights mixed together.

I think clean alloy made the most difference for me. I flux with sawdust. Why is in the book I linked to earlier in the thread. Fluxing chapter.

I don't water quench either, waste of time for me.