.223 Whats the Word
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hometownhero
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Toon Town, Sk
The odd time I shoot factory loaded ammo its hornady superformance or hornady custom. The rest of the time its my reloads.
Chuckbuster
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I shoot reloads almost exclusively. Hornady 55grFMJ in my Mini-14...just to keep Wendy happy, and 40 gr Nosler BTs in my my 700V.
whatevers cheap for my AR15, havn't been disapointed yet (winchester, federal, hornady, norinco... even mfs) reloads for my bolt gun.
you are being pretty vague with your request, what are you trying to do? if it just needs to go bang... whatever's cheap should do.
you are being pretty vague with your request, what are you trying to do? if it just needs to go bang... whatever's cheap should do.
Leviathan024
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- GP Alberta
I find no difference between the norinco and federal for accuracy. Much nicer brass on the federal.
have you shot both from a bench to test ?
I find Nor just as accurate if not more than AE as well. plus you can't beat the p&a
blasted_saber
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- A blue part of Ontario
Accuracy wise I havent found anything that tops hornady steel match. I sold my .223 last week but steel match would do a three shot cloverleaf at 100m with it.
I seldom shoot factory in .223, but the last stuff I shot was Norinco. It shot better than many other brands of ball ammo I have tried and the brass is great for reloading. I have gotten five + reloads out of it without any issues. The Norinco ammo is quite hot too (possibly 5.56 pressures).
I found the complete opposite and of the 100 rds of Norinco I shot I had 3 that failed to fire, took a second strike to actually fire it, I'm over 1k rounds of the AE Tactical and not a single issue.
Are you talking about accuracy or ftf's? If your using a bolt gun that would explain the ftf's.
yeah, I thought I might need to clarify after I posted.
Shooting from an AR, accuracy was better with the AE Tactical than the Norinco as well as more reliable.
I loaded equal LAR mags, side by side targets from a rest at 100 yards, I got tighter groups with the AE than with the Norinco. We're not talking drastic, but noticable. I was getting 3-4" 10 round groups with the AE and with the Norc it was 5-6"
It was weird for the FTF, waited my 30 seconds, nothing, ejected the round, didn't look like a light strike, stuck it back in the chamber and pulled the trigger again and it went bang.
I also noticed with the Norinco, out of LAR mags, full 10 rounds, bolt open, my AR had some trouble stipping the first round out of the mag. Maybe they are actually 5.56 and just that much larger of a round in the LAR mag to make it tight enough to need the forward assist in order to load.
Picture from the range Friday when I was trying / experiencing this
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Accuracy, about the same as the AE out of a bolt gun.
I found that the Norinco is no where near as accurate out of a bolt gun as the AE is, but that's just me. In an AR the Norinco is supposed to be great.
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