Norinco Non-Corrosive .223

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I was just wondering if anyone has had problems with the Norinco Non-Corrosive .223? If so what were the issues you had?

Also does anything recommend against firing it out of an expensive rifle such as a Tavor or a Benelli MR1?
 
It is ACTUALLY non-corrosive, unlike some of the "non-corrosive" 7.62x39. AFAIK they've never made any corrosive .223 or .308

A few batches seem to have crappy primers, can't remember the lot numbers off hand. Many threads written about it previously.

I've banged through 8k in the past two years without complaint... The accuracy isn't GREAT, but it's ok for CQB.

Edit: checked an old thread. Bad lot numbers were in the mid to high 20s. BTW: it does NOT run well in bolt guns.
 
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Have shot nothing but white box 55gr .223 FMJ Norinco in my M16A1 AR15 clone.
Have never had a FTF, FTE, no rust (non corrosive for sure as I don't clean my AR's fanatically). If I owned a more expensive gun in .223 I would feed it the same without even hesitating.
The stuff shoots better than bulk American Eagle.
It's non corrosive.
 
I buy a lot of that stuff for my XCR-L. Works great. Never had any issues. As stated before accuracy is good enough but not what you would use in a DMR I am sure. Well worth the price they are being sold for. My XCR is used at most at around 50-200 meters. I don't intend to do precision/long range shooting with the ammo in any case.
 
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The Norinco 5.56 is loaded fairly hot/high pressure. The brass is pretty decent for reloading. I have shot 1000's of rounds of the stuff. Buy it cheap and stack it deep. Not corrosive at all.
 
saskcop said:
I think this stuff is rapidly drying up in this country.
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The sad part is I refused to buy it when it was cheap and plentiful for years due to what I read online. I finally purchased a case two years ago to feed three rifles chambered in 5.56. After several thousand rounds of white & yellow box, I've had only 2 split cases which is pretty good in my books. Wish I had stockpiled more and I'm in a bit of panic to grab as much as I can .
 
Truck Norris said:
The sad part is I refused to buy it when it was cheap and plentiful for years due to what I read online. I finally purchased a case two years ago to feed three rifles chambered in 5.56. After several thousand rounds of white & yellow box, I've had only 2 split cases which is pretty good in my books. Wish I had stockpiled more and I'm in a bit of panic to grab as much as I can .
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I seem to always wait until it is too late and then end up paying way too much to buy what I should have in the first place. Buy it cheap and stack it deep.
 
I recall the hype two years ago about this ammo running out. So I bought a few more cases at 250.00 apiece. The price hasn't gone up that much but I am still glad I got what I did.

IMO the best buy right now in terms of surplus rounds has to be 7.62x54r. About 250.00/880 or 30 cents a round. And if you are a reloader you can break up the rounds for their components to reload .303 british
 
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