The Annoyed Man wrote:I bought 2000 rounds yesterday of remanufactured 55 grain .223 from once-fired cases ammunitiontogo.com:
http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/product_i ... ired-brass
This is .223 DRS 55gr. Hornady Full Metal Jacket Boat Tail Ammo. This ammo is manufactured with once fired mil-spec brass which is loaded by D.R.S. Manufacturing. DRS is a licensed and insured manufacturing company. They offer a full line of new and reloaded rifle and pistol ammo. This ammo is all loaded on fully automatic military loading machines. DRS uses new Hornady 55gr. FMJBT bullets, and Mil-Spec Ball Powder. Muzzle velocity of 3,240fps. This is some excellent ammunition, we have sold DRS ammo for over 7 years and have had no complaints. You will be amazed at how accurate and clean it is. It will come packed loose.
Price was $289.95/1,000 rounds. Hard to beat that.
I also bought 1,000 rounds of UMC 115 grain 9mm ball from laxammo.com:
https://www.laxammo.com/index.php?optio ... Itemid=614
$194.99/1,000 rounds. They had another brand that they wouldn't name, but was brass-cased and selling for $179/1,000 including a plastic ammo can. I went with UMC because it's a known quantity.
Following up on my post from page 1 (above):
I received the shipment yesterday. Here's what the product looks like:
The cartridges were bright and clean, not covered in shmutz like some bulk offerings:
The description (quoted above) says "This ammo is manufactured with once fired mil-spec brass.....". That is
mostly true. I grabbed a handful of 17 cartridges right off the top of the batch, and lined them up to look at the headstamps. As you can see, there is a mixture of mostly GI cases, with 5 of the 17 being stamped with either ".223" or ".223 Rem". Two of the cases are headstamped "5.56", and the rest all look like Lake City.
They are currently out of stock on this item, but if it becomes available again, I'd recommend it for general purpose use. The user reviews on the product page (linked above) are mostly positive. For $289.95/1,000 rounds on today's market, that seems like a pretty good price for good brass-cased, Hornady copper-jacketed FMJ.
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