I've had this rifle for a couple of years now, it's got somewhere around 15 thousand rounds through it. Mostly all 55 gr FMJ. Through it's life with me it had operated very well, with few hiccups. MiketheBike very generously gave me a BCM extractor upgrade kit when it was having extraction issues after about 5000 rounds, much of it steel case. I installed the kit and switched to brass ammo almost exclusively and it's been good ever since (although I want to put that extractor kit in my other AR's so if someone can tell me who currently carries them that would be great! 
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This rifle has a Vortex red dot on it and is usually shot at 120m or less, at gongs that range from 6" to 16" and it hit's all of those fine if you do your part. But who knows what actual accuracy it is capable of after 15K rounds? We were at the range today, and decided to find out. I dug into the range kit and came up with a battered up cheapo Bushnell scope and some waaaay to short rings, and we installed it. It was a bit spontaneous, otherwise we would have a better set up for real accuracy testing, but whatever.
We had 2 types of ammo today, PMC and Wartak factory reloads. Both shoot under MOA in my Mossberg bolt action .223.
First up was the Wartak factory reloaded 223 55gr ammo, using a mixed assortment of brass.
About a 4" group at 120m. Although I didn't actually measure it. While this sort of performance would make me want to pull my hair out with one of my bolt actions, it was about what I expected from this rifle.
Then the PMC factory ammo
Not bad, considering the round count and that we didn't have a rear bag, and your face had to be crushed into the stock to barely even see through the scope. 3" 5 shot group at 120m= 2.2 MOA
We might try this again at 20 000 rounds, as long as nothing breaks on it. Might even put a real bipod and scope on it, use a rear bag and some rings that are appropriate height.
And hopefully I have a few other brands of ammo to try, too. I'm not interested enough in this rifle to handload for it, though.
)This rifle has a Vortex red dot on it and is usually shot at 120m or less, at gongs that range from 6" to 16" and it hit's all of those fine if you do your part. But who knows what actual accuracy it is capable of after 15K rounds? We were at the range today, and decided to find out. I dug into the range kit and came up with a battered up cheapo Bushnell scope and some waaaay to short rings, and we installed it. It was a bit spontaneous, otherwise we would have a better set up for real accuracy testing, but whatever.
We had 2 types of ammo today, PMC and Wartak factory reloads. Both shoot under MOA in my Mossberg bolt action .223.
First up was the Wartak factory reloaded 223 55gr ammo, using a mixed assortment of brass.
About a 4" group at 120m. Although I didn't actually measure it. While this sort of performance would make me want to pull my hair out with one of my bolt actions, it was about what I expected from this rifle.
Then the PMC factory ammo
Not bad, considering the round count and that we didn't have a rear bag, and your face had to be crushed into the stock to barely even see through the scope. 3" 5 shot group at 120m= 2.2 MOA
We might try this again at 20 000 rounds, as long as nothing breaks on it. Might even put a real bipod and scope on it, use a rear bag and some rings that are appropriate height.
And hopefully I have a few other brands of ammo to try, too. I'm not interested enough in this rifle to handload for it, though.
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