I picked up the hornady steel match from P&D, that was about a month ago when the prices were still lower. I think it was 30 bucks or so at the time, about the same price as American eagle black box. I also remember picking some up from bartons in grande prairie for about the same price or slightly cheaper. As for the training ammo, I cant remember where I bought that, was a while ago I haven't been able to find it locally around here since anyway. the match stuff is just a regular steel case with hornady's match bullets plugged into them and im assuming greater control over powder and primer?. Work well enough for what I need. guys at the counter at P&D said some 3 gunners he knew have used it for competitions too, I find it cycles very smoothly in my tavor and is fairly consistant.
Steel Case Ammo in your AR15
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I picked up the hornady steel match from P&D, that was about a month ago when the prices were still lower. I think it was 30 bucks or so at the time, about the same price as American eagle black box. I also remember picking some up from bartons in grande prairie for about the same price or slightly cheaper. As for the training ammo, I cant remember where I bought that, was a while ago I haven't been able to find it locally around here since anyway. the match stuff is just a regular steel case with hornady's match bullets plugged into them and im assuming greater control over powder and primer?. Work well enough for what I need. guys at the counter at P&D said some 3 gunners he knew have used it for competitions too, I find it cycles very smoothly in my tavor and is fairly consistant.
yah I was thinking my tavor as well, humm, i might be rethinking my earlier stance on this. the tavor does cycle like a frigging monster
Oh yea! I haven't found an ammo it hasn't shot happily yet! I also did some tests though with mine, I loaded up some home made dummy rounds (empty case with a seated bullet but no primer/powder and paint to identify), and resized them so when put into a headspace gauge the rim would stick out a little bit. I did three different ones, I think the farthest one stuck out about a full rim? and it still chambered properly lol. I swear it just forced slammed it into the chamber lol. This is also with range brass, not my own one time fire brass.
I should also mention the hornady steel cased match comes in boxes of 50 not 20.
At least I can use google.
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So can my three year old. The bottom line is that most topics discussed here have been written about or researched already. If we all took your stance, there would be no gun community for open discussion, just google searches on pre-existing information.
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Right. So what sort of thread do you do you have planned next? Maybe a 9mm vs 45; Ak vs Ar; 5.56 vs 7.62?
How about everyone just shoots what they want regardless of what others think? If someone has a healthy, factful opinion and shares it, Awsome! I really don't get why people get so but hurt and have to put things like "try google" blah blah blah. Its a forum, forums are about discussion, of any topic relating to the main topic at hand. Does a guys question really impact your life that much?
lol. I don't get it either but the trolls have nothing better to do....Thanks to those with productive feedback and references on here. Yes, the Daniel Defense M4A1 will feed any slop you give it and come back for more. We can still discuss the merits of steel vs brass.
Vancouverbc, you must shoot brass ammo only. No if's/ands or buts. lol jokes. I think when it comes to steel vs brass as well, really depends on what the chamber tolerances are as well. good example is the ddm4a1 - it is, I assume anyway, a milspec made chamber, meaning tolerances will be a bit greater than say, a more higher priced AR such as those use in competition. I believe this is for reliability in chambering a round when in dirty conditions. Also shows why guns like the tavor, xcr-l (as far as I have seen anyway) will eat almost any ammo on the market.
lol. In the past I've only shot brass cased. I just ordered up a bunch more as well as some steel cased to try it out. Wasn't worried about it feeding so much as I was about any longer term issues with shooting thousands of rounds. I've never had fail to feeds in Dan Defense
I would also like to know where we can get the best online deals.
