I got 1000 armscore .224 fmj back in the fall at a shop in WV traveling through the west of MD/WV/VA
I worked up a load for it months ago and never got anything I was happy with it. I was short on 55fmj but loaded up several hundred anyway. I decided to break it out this weekend and had some xtreme 55fmj that came in last week cause I did not want to waste any more primers on it.
I did take them both to the range. I normally would shoot these for my bang steel loads but put them through a scoped AR.
Same gun 50 yards
First is armscore
Now xtreme
So the goal this weekend was to figure out just why and maybe learn something.
I weighed about 20 rounds. Xtreme was all within 0.1gr of each other. Armscore was all over the place. 0.6gr spread. Then I looked at the shape. The OAL of the bullet varied as much as 0.020”!
The xtreme variation was 0.003”
I’ll be keeping these Armscore tucked away for the zombie apocalypse.
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I worked up a load for it months ago and never got anything I was happy with it. I was short on 55fmj but loaded up several hundred anyway. I decided to break it out this weekend and had some xtreme 55fmj that came in last week cause I did not want to waste any more primers on it.
I did take them both to the range. I normally would shoot these for my bang steel loads but put them through a scoped AR.
Same gun 50 yards
First is armscore
Now xtreme
So the goal this weekend was to figure out just why and maybe learn something.
I weighed about 20 rounds. Xtreme was all within 0.1gr of each other. Armscore was all over the place. 0.6gr spread. Then I looked at the shape. The OAL of the bullet varied as much as 0.020”!
The xtreme variation was 0.003”
I’ll be keeping these Armscore tucked away for the zombie apocalypse.
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