ACCY?

Hello,
I bought some factory second ammo and it has this sticker on it. I looked at some of the cartriges and they look like normal cartriges to me. What does ACCY stand for in terms of a defect?

 

Accuracy.

 

that was going to be my guess but I still don't understand. I mean, is that particular load generally lacking in the accuracy department?

 

I guess it did not meet Federal's accuracy standards. I wonder what Winchester or Remington would have done?

 

Most likely they shot some of this lot through a test barrel, and for whatever reason it failed Federal's accuracy requirement, so in the interest of quality control they dumped the whole lot cheap as "factory seconds".

 

that makes sense. Thank you. Guess I'll give them my own test and see.

 

Federal has accuracy standards? I would never have guessed considering the quality of their 22 LR I've shot. Some won't hit anything, as in "click", followed by bad words about federal ammo.

 

Here's one from Remington, the specification for the .308 150-grain Core-Lokt:

ACCURACY ............................. Maximum average extreme spread of three 5-round groups of 1.5” [38.1 mm] at 100 yards [91.4 m] fired from a SAAMI-compliant accuracy test barrel (1:12 twist, 24” [609.6 mm] in length) mounted in a Universal Receiver.