.223 Wylde Chamber

[ThunderSquirrel]

Anyone here have experience with a barrel chambered in .223 Wylde? All the AR's I've ever owned have been chambered in 5.56.

[HBARleatherneck]

i have 1 Ar in .223 wylde.

i have 5 Ars right now all being 5.56/.223. My experience is the .223 wylde is a tighter chamber. I know none of you would shoot wolf, but I do sometimes. Wolf will barely chamber (if you slingshot it) will not usually extract without major trouble. But, all other brass cases ammo I have tried have been fine. Although, that particular rifle I built into a varmit configuration, and I mostly load my own ammo for it.

[OgenRwot]

OK, that's not exactly true because 5.56 and .223Rem are not the same. 5.56 is the biggest, .223 Wylde is in the middle, and .223 Rem are the tightest of the 3.

http://www.ar15barrels.com/data/223-556.pdf

[BPTactical]

The Wylde is a hybrid between 5.56 and SAAMI .223. It is basically a 5.56 chamber with a tighter throat like a .223. It was meant to be a more accurate chambering for the 5.56.
A traditional 5.56 is a bit looser than a SAAMI .223 for reliability and has a longer Leade than the SAAMI.
The couple of rifles that I have used that were Wylde chambered ran fine and seemed accurate enough.

[HBARleatherneck]

i didnt say that 5.56/.223 were the same. i was saying that all mine are 5.56. but .223. but the wylde was tight.

but, out of all my ars, that is the only one that has trouble feeding or extracting wolf. and you can seemingly feel the tightness. it might be percieved but, it seems like you can tell. maybe because i reload, i dont know.

of course i could have just posted a link to the specs. but he asked for personal experience. next time i wont say anything.

[OgenRwot]

I was just going off what you said:

i have 5 Ars right now all being 5.56/.223

I thought you meant they were all 5.56/.223 and not 5.56 and .223. It wasn't very clear. Didn't mean any disrespect man.

[HBARleatherneck]

no, the internet sucks for communication sometimes. i was abreviating my thoughts. then it looks like I am pissed. which I am not. things dont allways come across well.

[BPTactical]

i didnt say that 5.56/.223 were the same. i was saying that all mine are 5.56. but .223. but the wylde was tight.

but, out of all my ars, that is the only one that has trouble feeding or extracting wolf. and you can seemingly feel the tightness. it might be percieved but, it seems like you can tell. maybe because i reload, i dont know.

of course i could have just posted a link to the specs. but he asked for personal experience. next time i wont say anything.

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I just wanted to toss some of the differences out in laymans terms.
I think the tighter throat in the Wylde is why you feel a difference. Wolff is not exactly the most dimensionally consistent either.

FWIW I don't think there was anything wrong with your post HBAR.

[coop68]

my current AR set up has the wylde chamber with 1/8 twist barrel i have had no issues with mine with brass cased ammo! so fare set up with a 16inch mid-length from rock river. reason why i got one is cause i shoot competitions for High power so i use it as my fun gun, but also for prepping brass for my competition AR as a means to cutting the round count down since at about 5000 rounds i have to replace it as the throat starts to wear for 600 yards! plus krieger barrels aren't that cheap at least for me since im in College!

just my experience!

[ThunderSquirrel]

Accuracy isn't much a concern for me on the barrel I'm picking up, 10.5" isn't a tack driver by nature.

Really just want cycling reliability, and from what I've heard 5.56 should cycle just fine through it even with the little bit tighter tolerances.