Black Hills blue box .223...why not?

[OH58D]

For building a stockpile of clean burning, quality ammo for the M4/M16 platform, what's wrong with this? I know the 5.56/.223 differences, but I have never had any problems with this ammo. I have shot plenty of Federal/Lake City 5.56 and it seems to have occasional quality control issue and not clean burning. Never have run the Wolf/Russian stuff in an AR and don't intend to.

OH58D

[markm]

I won't buy it because it's what I can make at home as a reloader. They use good stuff... good bullets and propellant.

They don't, however, or didn't used to trim their brass. And it was WAY too long.... far beyond the 1.75 max.

I can put 1.755 brass in my headspace guage and it show withing min/max. When I put Blue Box ammo in my headspace guage, it's obnoxiously beyond max length.

[kmrtnsn]

Today only at Palmetto,

4th OF JULY SPECIAL! Federal American Eagle .223 55gr FMJ AE223AF - Federal American Eagle .223 55gr FMJ AE223AF. Packaged on 10rd stripper clips with 3 10rd clips to a box, 30 boxes to a 900rd Case.

$269.99 per 900 round case $12.00 Shipping

[Belmont31R]

Ive had a few cases split in two with blue box, and Ive not shot but maybe 1500 rounds of it at the very most in the last few years.


Its not that much cheaper than red box....

[Skang]

uh oh, i bought 100rd of blackhills blue box soft point ammo couple days ago...:(

should i use it or not....i was gonna use it on new AR.

[markm]

Shoot it. It's good ammo, and you never hear problems associated with it.

I wouldn't hesitate to use it if I had it. Since I can reload my own, I don't buy any of it.

[Pumpkinheaver]

I've never had any problems with blue box.

[ST911]

Umpteen thousand rounds of BHA downrange, the overwhelming majority of which was reman, and a lot of that in factory seconds. All GTG, with exceptional performance.

The reman loads use the same bullets as the new counterparts and essentially duplicate performance. They make an excellent stockpile/contingency option.