|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 6,178
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 6,178 |
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 13,264 Likes: 3
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 13,264 Likes: 3 |
Yep AE is great for run and gun stuff. I find it to be accurate for the price. It's good ammo so long as you plan to leave the brass where it falls.
What's wrong with AE brass? The AE I have used was in Lake City brass, which I like. I guess if you don't want crimped primers you may not like it, but that's no big deal to me.
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 31,115 Likes: 5
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 31,115 Likes: 5 |
Yep AE is great for run and gun stuff. I find it to be accurate for the price. It's good ammo so long as you plan to leave the brass where it falls.
What's wrong with AE brass? The AE I have used was in Lake City brass, which I like. I guess if you don't want crimped primers you may not like it, but that's no big deal to me. The stuff I've had was not Lake City brass. True Lake City is very good stuff, but all the AE I've seen the head stamp is Federal, not AE and it's much softer, no where close to LC standards.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 4,755
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 4,755 |
Yep AE is great for run and gun stuff. I find it to be accurate for the price. It's good ammo so long as you plan to leave the brass where it falls.
What's wrong with AE brass? The AE I have used was in Lake City brass, which I like. I guess if you don't want crimped primers you may not like it, but that's no big deal to me. The stuff I've had was not Lake City brass. True Lake City is very good stuff, but all the AE I've seen the head stamp is Federal, not AE and it's much softer, no where close to LC standards. Yup. Commercial American Eagle 223 (not 5.56 marked) ammo has always been FC headstamp that I've ever seen, which is sometimes OK for reloading and sometimes definitely not. I used it for a while, until one batch of them was soft enough to blow primers and look like belted magnum cases after firing warmer 5.56 loads. The same loads were, and continue to be, completely sustainable for many reloadings in a different batch of FC brass and in the LC brass I normally use. The factory AE 223 loads do seem a bit on the milder side IMO; enough to make a difference when tuning AR gas systems. The Federal 5.56 loads on the other hand like XM193 and 855 use LC brass though and that is good stuff. I haven't paid attention but maybe they've slapped the AE label on some of that? If in doubt I'd want to buy the 5.56 loading rather than 223 for a better chance at getting the good LC brass.
Last edited by Yondering; 12/14/19.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 13,264 Likes: 3
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 13,264 Likes: 3 |
Yes, the stuff I have used was the 5.56, both 55gr and 62 gr.. I don't buy much loaded ammo and I was very happy to see the LC brass.
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 4,755
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 4,755 |
Yes, the stuff I have used was the 5.56, both 55gr and 62 gr.. I don't buy much loaded ammo and I was very happy to see the LC brass. That makes sense then. LC is what I've seen in the 5.56 loads.
|
|
|
|
555 members (1minute, 160user, 1234, 219 Wasp, 222Sako, 257 roberts, 62 invisible),
2,520
guests, and
1,212
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,193,790
Posts18,515,999
Members74,017
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|