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.223 Wylde BCG?

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Mudinyeri:

--- Quote from: bkoenig on March 18, 2014, 11:35:57 AM ---Yep, the bolt is the same.  It's kind of a hybrid of .223 and 5.56 - IIRC it just has a little more freebore than .223 to allow it to handle 5.56 pressures.  I have one AR with that chamber.

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Thanks. 

Dan W:
My 18"  RRA is Wylde...eats anything and everything and MOA or better depending on the nut behind the butt

JTH:

--- Quote from: bkoenig on March 18, 2014, 11:35:57 AM ---Yep, the bolt is the same.  It's kind of a hybrid of .223 and 5.56 - IIRC it just has a little more freebore than .223 to allow it to handle 5.56 pressures.  I have one AR with that chamber.

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Yep.  The difference is in the barrel, not the bolt.  (My Fulton Armory ARs have Wylde chambers, and they feed everything.)

Mudinyeri:

--- Quote from: jthhapkido on March 18, 2014, 12:56:28 PM ---Yep.  The difference is in the barrel, not the bolt.  (My Fulton Armory ARs have Wylde chambers, and they feed everything.)

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... or more accurately, the difference is in the chamber.


--- Quote ---The .223 Wylde is a proprietary rifle cartridge chamber with the external dimensions and lead angle as found in the military 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge and the 0.2240 inch freebore diameter as found in the civilian SAAMI .223 Remington cartridge. Rifles with a .223 Wylde chamber will typically accept both .223 Remington and externally slightly larger 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition.
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I'll toss up a build thread just for fun.  ;D

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