Does shooting Norinco .223 lower the resale value of an AR?

[dizzy]

op, norinco ammo may wear your barrel faster, as the QC is not super. You can have harder material in the copper than you want, you might have contaminants in the copper, you might find the bullets are copper washed and not really copper covered, you might get undersized bullets that don't follow the rifling pattern of the barrel, all any of this means, is that you wear the barrel faster than you would if you shot high quality ammo. In the end it doesn't really matter as barrels are a consumable, as is the rifle, so when it wears out you simply replace it, if you run Norinco you will have more money to replace your rifle sooner, which you may or may not need to do.

I don't shoot it, only because I don't have to. Otherwise I'd shoot the *&!^ out of it. its not going to kill you or your rifle.

 

[Zeroed-In]

not getting in to this lol as I'm just getting in to this kind of shooting. but my buddy just finished off his 6th case of norinco 223 so whats that all most 7000 rounds. not one miss fire not one jam and he has not cleaned his gun from the day he got it.


and for 3 gun you do not need 1 moa that said, all my guns I have will shoot under 1MOA but they are not 3gun guns Ok my XCR-l will not lol

You should tell your buddy to take better care of his Canadian Colt, and clean it a little more often.

Now as for all your guns, well I mean all, but the one of your guns shooting better then MOA if any are semi.'s why don't you post up in the Black rifle challenge and prove it? That's if it's so easy, of course maybe they are all decent bolt-guns with quality optics...

Cheers D

 

[Travis Bickle]

To the OP's original question, yes! But only if the person demanding the reduced price because of it is a complete douche bag.

 

[dogzilla]

It will absolutely lower the value. Once you've put 20-30k down the pipe

 

[Don'tkillbill]

I like the norc stuff. I had good batches and I usually buy a tin when I have cash on hand. The only value loss on your gun is that you use it more because the ammo is affordable.

 

[mikethebike]

not getting in to this lol as I'm just getting in to this kind of shooting. but my buddy just finished off his 6th case of norinco 223 so whats that all most 7000 rounds. not one miss fire not one jam and he has not cleaned his gun from the day he got it. yes he is a hillbilly redneck from Sask lol so it can not be all that bad can it???? and for 3 gun you do not need 1 moa that said, all my guns I have will shoot under 1MOA but they are not 3gun guns Ok my XCR-l will not lol

well, if those guns are semis and black, its time to do the trnimion moa challenge!

 

[1887]

You should tell your buddy to take better care of his Canadian Colt, and clean it a little more often.

Now as for all your guns, well I mean all, but the one of your guns shooting better then MOA if any are semi.'s why don't you post up in the Black rifle challenge and prove it? That's if it's so easy, of course maybe they are all decent bolt-guns with quality optics...

Cheers D

there are bolt-guns and they all shoot better than MOA even my bench rest 22 can put 10 rounds on paper and cover it with a dime a 100yrd. when I get back in about 6 weeks I will take the challenge with my XCR to see what it will shoot and then I'm going to see what it will do with norc ammo to see if it is as bad as a lot of guys say it is or if it is because they cant shoot lol I can I have 2 Commonwealth gold medals and 6 Canadian champion ships. I also hold the record for being the youngest shooter to ever win the lutenist governors prize for long range shoot 1000yrd stuff. but this is about norc ammo so I look fore word to shooting some of it and seeing how it is. just my 2 cents lol

 

[catsledman]

Put over 10k rounds through one of my DD M4V5's with no issues.

I took my DDM4V3 out only for the third time and put 80 rounds of Norc ammo through it. 90 percent of the rounds keyholed sideways through the target. Went up to 20 rounds of 62 grain hand loads and had no problem. All nice little round holes with 62 grain. 55 grain Norc just tumbles through the target.