Drill Sergeant
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I have recently posted this on other sites. If you shoot M1 Carbine it may be interesting to you:
Went to the range yesterday to put one of my Bavarian Carbines to the test at 100 yards. I fired several different brands of ammo for accuracy (or at least as accurate I can be).
The main reason for this post is to describe my experience with "American Ammo" brand. The bullet is of the copper washed lead type. In short, it produced multiple failures to feed, and even split cases. The expended brass was blackened and accuracy the worst of all tried.
The only upside to this stuff was that I was able to keep it into about 4 1/2 -5 inches at 100 yards. Certainly good enough for 'minute of man' accuracy.
The best results were from RP 110gr JHP (under 1 inch at 50 yards and most groups at slightly less than 3 inches at 100 (best 100 yd, 5 shot group right at 2", center to center. Think it's even better than that, but maybe at another range session). Next W/W 110gr. FMJ just over the RP; PMC just over the W/W. No feeding, extraction, ejection or other problems with any of this ammo.
The American Ammo is cheap and certainly a 'head turner' when available at under $6/box of 50, but as with most things in life you get what you pay for. Be careful with this stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Went to the range yesterday to put one of my Bavarian Carbines to the test at 100 yards. I fired several different brands of ammo for accuracy (or at least as accurate I can be).
The main reason for this post is to describe my experience with "American Ammo" brand. The bullet is of the copper washed lead type. In short, it produced multiple failures to feed, and even split cases. The expended brass was blackened and accuracy the worst of all tried.
The only upside to this stuff was that I was able to keep it into about 4 1/2 -5 inches at 100 yards. Certainly good enough for 'minute of man' accuracy. The best results were from RP 110gr JHP (under 1 inch at 50 yards and most groups at slightly less than 3 inches at 100 (best 100 yd, 5 shot group right at 2", center to center. Think it's even better than that, but maybe at another range session). Next W/W 110gr. FMJ just over the RP; PMC just over the W/W. No feeding, extraction, ejection or other problems with any of this ammo.
The American Ammo is cheap and certainly a 'head turner' when available at under $6/box of 50, but as with most things in life you get what you pay for. Be careful with this stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving!
