Requesting input on 5.56 practice ammo

[1911Nut]

PMC 55 grain .223 is my practice ammo of choice. Stoeger says the same.

I've had excellent results with this ammo for practice and training courses. Good stuff.

[Molon]

PMC 55 grain .223 is my practice ammo of choice. Stoeger says the same.

The PMC Bronze 55 grain FMJ load produces acceptable accuracy for a load in this category, but velocity often runs ~ 200 FPS slower than a true mil-spec M193 load.



PMC Bronze 55 Grain FMJ


I evaluated the accuracy (technically, the precision) of the PMC Bronze 55 grain FMJ ammunition using my 20” stainless-steel Lothar-Walther barreled AR-15. This barrel has a 223 Wylde chamber with a 1:8” twist.

Three 10-shot groups fired in a row from my bench-rest set-up at a distance of 100 yards had the following extreme spreads:

2.22”
1.82”
2.15”

for a 10-shot average extreme spread of 2.06”. The 30-shot composite group had a mean radius of 0.72”.

The smallest 10-shot group . . .







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