Norinco surplus .223/5.56?

Read the thread from last year on AR-15 Kaboom. Read what I posted there. The gun was replaced under warranty and the ammo was suspect. Had those two rounds we had that jammed in our Armalite M15 got feed through the Nork AR and had fired, I may have had my first AR Kaboom as well. Autoloaders should have cannulered bullets with a proper crimp.


Ensure your Nork 556 bullets are properly crimped or gripped in the case. A round getting rammed well back and askew in a case causing compression and being askewed is a recipe for a kaboom.

My first suspicions may possibly be correct on this suspect ammo in the kaboom thread being improperly or not crimped, undersize bullets that don't grip properly or over sized case mouths on the new brass, pick your choice.
 
Thanks for the warning. I ended up getting smaller, equal quantities of Remington UMC .223 and Federal XM193 5.56. Since I am shooting them from a bolt gun and my objective is more small groups than large volume shooting, I figured I'd spend a bit more for better ammo.
 
So I'm curious what a case of 1120 rounds of NORINCO 5.56 is going for nowadays. Ive seen prices reaching all the way up to $610 the other day. I know its not coming into the country anymore.
 
I've had good luck with the Norc ammo, aside from a batch that seems to have oddly hard or insensitive primers - maybe one in every 50 from that crate failed to fire on the first try. This was with several guns.
 
Canadian tire in Leduc had it for about $360 per crate at Christmas this year but they advertised it as 223 . It is realy 5.56. And the crates I had were made in 1995. I would rather pay a little more for Federal 223 than have shells 21 years old. I don't know a lot about ammo but having a 223 bolt action as well as my other guns, I would rather have one kind of ammo for all three guns.

They had about 180 crayes of it back then.
 
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