1200 Rounds of .223 Ammo by Hornady Frontier - 55gr FMJBT

Some people say we’re all just rats looking for a piece of cheese. Those people are wrong, and, quite frankly, kind of a downer.

Let them be rats all they like. Because you and me? We are AMERICANS, and we are looking for HUGE CASES OF 223 REM AMMO.

Here is one. A good one, because it is made in America by one of America’s best makers of ammo, and loaded to what are essentially 5.56x45 M193 specifications. It’s Frontier series 223 Rem, and it’s ready for action in any rifle chambered for it or 5.56!

The 55 grain full metal jacket is the white rice of 223 bullets. Is it fancy? No. Is it intended for hunting, defense, or match shooting? No. But it’s filling (magazines, specifically), and it goes with pretty much anything (i.e. a rifle, at the target range, where its shooter is attempting to nail bullseyes).

That’s not just an FMJ, of course. That is an FMJBT, which tapers off toward its end so as to reduce the amount of drag it stirs up while it is bolting downrange. It’s effective. The 0.243 G1 BC bullet conserves ~48% velocity at 500 yards; ~23% energy at same.

This is not remanufactured/reloaded ammunition. Its cases owe its discoloration to the normal annealing process they underwent at the factory. Military-grade brass isn’t polished (because the military likes visible proof that their brass was annealed, among other things), but that in no way affects its performance in the rifle or at the reloading table.