American Eagle 223 AR 55 Grain FMJ problems

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Hey just got a 223 the other day and wanted to get a cheap box of ammo to go and shoot with. Ended up going with the American Eagle 223 black box. Loaded up the first magazine, lined up the target and pulled the trigger and instead of boom I heard click... thinking to myself what the hell, so I recocked and again click. I then pulled out the shell to find the firing pin shouldn't be the problem as the primer had an indent in it. So whatever your bound to get a dud in a cheap box of ammo. Long story short out of the 20 round box 15 were duds. I could not believe it, now I didn't have any different ammo to shoot or I would've tried something else to diagnose it. Anyways I would like to get a hold of American Eagle, and tell them my story at least give it a try but could not find anything on contact info... if anyone has any ideas.. anything would be appreciated. Oh and the gun was a Savage Axis yes I know it's a cheap gun, but I don't think it was the problem as I said there was indents in all of the primers.
Thanks in advance.
 
I use that ammo all the time in my vanguard series 2 and have never had a FTF. I would suspect your firing pin,light strike.
 
Turb09 said:
Hey just got a 223 the other day and wanted to get a cheap box of ammo to go and shoot with. Ended up going with the American Eagle 223 black box. Loaded up the first magazine, lined up the target and pulled the trigger and instead of boom I heard click... thinking to myself what the hell, so I recocked and again click. I then pulled out the shell to find the firing pin shouldn't be the problem as the primer had an indent in it. So whatever your bound to get a dud in a cheap box of ammo. Long story short out of the 20 round box 15 were duds. I could not believe it, now I didn't have any different ammo to shoot or I would've tried something else to diagnose it. Anyways I would like to get a hold of American Eagle, and tell them my story at least give it a try but could not find anything on contact info... if anyone has any ideas.. anything would be appreciated. Oh and the gun was a Savage Axis yes I know it's a cheap gun, but I don't think it was the problem as I said there was indents in all of the primers.
Thanks in advance.
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The AE 223 Black Box is made with hard primers as its made for semi-automatic AR15's with free floating firing pins. Being that your Savage is a bolt action, this is likely part of your problem. From what I've read the Red Box have softer primers and more suited to a bolt action.

I've never had any issues with all the Black Box ammo I've fired out of any of my AR's.
 
Light primer strikes maybe? Seems a little odd that you'd have so many duds in a box. I've gone through a few hundred AE red box and haven't had an issue at all...but they might be different primers, I'm not sure.
 
Thank you all for your input... much appreciated. My next question would be how hard is it to adjust the firing pin on the axis and if it's even possible? The bolt is so easy to take apart but from what I saw there is not a lot of ways to adjust it.
 
Turb09 said:
Thank you all for your input... much appreciated. My next question would be how hard is it to adjust the firing pin on the axis and if it's even possible? The bolt is so easy to take apart but from what I saw there is not a lot of ways to adjust it.
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Before adjusting anything I would clean the bolt & firing pin assembly maybe with some varsol etc and retry, my Savage did the same thing till I did this
 
I don't think it's the ammo - I have fired hundreds of rounds of that stuff from my Axis & never had any kind of problem. Clean the bolt & the pin assembly.
 
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