Igman .224 55-gr FMJBT bullets...??

[TooTaxed]

Midway has these on sale in their latest flyer for $7.99/250 as a "Special Purchase", so I quickly ordered 500 to feed my hungry AR-15...at that price, what's to lose? When I receive them, I'll pull a random batch of 20 and weigh them to determine weight variation and sort by weight if advisable.

Does anyone have shooting experience with these?

(They also have Sierra .277 130-gr Pro Hunter SP at $8.99/100, Speer .308 150-gr Hot-Cor FN at $5.99/100, and Woodleigh .308 180-gr PRP for $11.49/50...reg price $26.99/50. Hurry if you want any!)

 

[Big_R]

Too Taxed:

Please post know how they shoot. I'm probably going to order some too. According to Midway's site, the bullets don't have a cannelure (not a big deal to me) and are somewhat tarnished (maybe a trip through the tumbler?).

Ryan

 

[Rockstar]

I believe there are some deals around on first-quality fmjbt's @ $37-$38 or so, shipped. Widener's offered such a deal on IMI's for some time, but always seems to be out now. I think IMI has a contract with the U.S. military, and that's cutting down on their shipments for general consumption.

 

[TooTaxed]

I've been traveling, and haven't gotten to the range yet. But I did pick out 50 Igman FMJBT bullets at random, inspect and weigh them to get an idea of uniformity. All bullets are well-formed, uniform in diameter (tested by rolling down a slightly inclined pane of glass) with the exposed lead bases slightly depressed where the bullets were swaged. No damage, pull marks, or tarnish...all were shiny. Bullets have no cannelures.

41 of the bullets weighed in the range of 44.5 to 55.5 gr, rather evenly distributed within that range by tenths of a grain. The others : one each 53.8 and 53.9, two 54.2, one 54.3, two 54.4, one each 55.8 and 54.9.

These bullets appear to be quite satisfactory for combat practice, plinking and warm-up rounds. For match or target I'd sort them by weight and load in uniform weight batches. They appear to be a real bargain for the money!