.223 ammo @ academy

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RamItOne

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Cheap and dirty but still good

Academy has monarch steel for $4.29, reg $5 seen it as low as $3.99

If you clean down to the firing pin it's great to shoot. Haven't noticed any damage with the steel casing, only fired around 5-600 rounds through it.

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Anyone else have any experience with this ammo? Would like to know what anyone with more rounds down range than myself has to say about it. Their brass is $9.99 so a pretty steep increase if you don't re use the brass.
 
I've shot alot of the 9mm, haven't shot any of the 223 i've been shooting the tulammo stuff from walmart.
 
I ran 100 rounds of the 7.62mm through my Socom16... had 3 FTF's. Cycling was a bit... brisk, and it blew a 8" flame straight up out of my muzzle brake :eek: .

Accuracy wasn't all that great and I don't shoot steel-cased ammo any longer... It's not worth it.
 
So 8" flame goes in the pro or the con column? Lol

I hate monarchs steel pistol ammo. Their brass is ok. I just can't justify going from 4-5/20 to 10/20 to just get brass. I don't reload. A guy at the range was using tul and hadn't had any problems. The range I go to sucks (2 second rule) so haven't been able to see how it handles on rapid fire.
 
I usualy try to find PMC Bronze in 223, its cheap...er and i get good accuracy out of my AR from it and....its reloadable, or sellable. I hate using steel as it is hard on extactors and such, usualy its cheap and diry ammo. Recently they changed their 223 to PMC X-TAC i think but its the same stuff just diff name. I get it off of CheaperthanDIRT in mass quantity when i need a new case cause convenitenly i run of brass to safley realod all at once cause my AR gets a workout. I keep a new case of all the calibers on the shelf for the zombies tho...just in case.
 
For $5.98 per box, I would rather shoot all brass American Eagale (Federal) or PMC. Monarch brass is ok but I only shoot brass.
 
At one time, Monarch steel was Barnaul. Not sure what it is now.

Recently they changed their 223 to PMC X-TAC i think but its the same stuff just diff name.
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PMC Bronze is 223, and not the same as PMC X-TAC, which is more like the NATO loads, either M855 or M193.
 
Ram, yep good old Wally Word has the American Eagle 55 gr fmj for that price and a few places online.
 
I'll have to check it out. Walmart also has the best 9mm price ive found federal 100 rnds for 19.xx

I remember before the Obama/Ammo scare you could pick up 100 rounds of WWB .40 for $23 bucks. Ahh about as depressing as thinking back on gas prices, in not thirty yet but I can remember paying less than a buck/gal
 
I remember before the Obama/Ammo scare you could pick up 100 rounds of WWB .40 for $23 bucks
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In the intervening years (and actually going a few years before that), commodity prices have gone through the roof. Just about every kind of ammo you care to name is about 50% more expensive than it was about 8 years ago, and that's assuming you find a decent price.
 
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