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04-01-2012, 11:17 PM
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federal .223 ammo..
Recently I've been stocking up on federal .223 ammo from Walmart and I was wondering about the difference between the America Eagle, black box ammo and the 100 rnd red box..Is there a difference in quality accounting for the 5 dollar difference in 100 rnd quantities of the red box..??. Anyone got any feed back on this ammo..?? I'm useing this ammo in an Inter Arms Mini Mauser..
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04-02-2012, 01:48 AM
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I prefer the American Eagle black box over the federal 100 pack red box. The AE is cheaper, gives me better groups out of my gun and it seams to run a little cleaner. The red box 100 packs isn't bad stuff if that's all they have in stock but the biggests problem with that stuff is the powder smells awful!!! After 100 rounds with no breeze to blow the smell away I have to get up and walk away for a few.
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04-02-2012, 03:07 AM
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The 100 rd black box AE I have is head stamped LC and is military
contract ammo from Federal. The brass shows the shoulder annealing
and is loaded to full military velocity while the commercial AE is not.
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04-02-2012, 06:17 AM
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Don't know about the bulk packs but the AE 20 round boxes of 55 grain FMJ is VERY accurate from a Remington 700V that I sold to my neighbor. His groups are usualy in the .5MOA range and once put three bullets through the same hole...
Bob
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04-06-2012, 09:23 AM
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I have both, and just did a visual comparison. The best I can tell the only difference is the box. Serial number and date sequence are almost identical. Have never noticed a difference in performance, but that could be that I am a mediocre shooter at best
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