Thread: Hornady 223 training ammo 55 gr

excuse my ignorance chaps but what exactly does Training ammo have over sporting ammunition,or vice versa.

Its cheap and really accurate in a lot of rifles. Great for semis too as its steel cases and no big deal when they get lost in the bush or get damaged during extraction.

its good ammo for the price but my ruger m77 doesnt extract it properly but extracts all other ammo

Originally Posted by doinit

excuse my ignorance chaps but what exactly does Training ammo have over sporting ammunition,or vice versa.

It's just a product name, it's what Hornady call their cheap steel cased .223 ammunition.

Forum member "the kid" and I shot like 15 hares today with it and it worked pretty spectacularly out to ~200 meters

Originally Posted by gimp

It's just a product name, it's what Hornady call their cheap steel cased .223 ammunition.

Cheers there gimp,was beginning to wonder. By the way mate what does that shooter weigh all up?

Hey gimp, What hand guard is that fitted and whats the OD of it.

Don't know what it weighs exactly, it's light though.

It's a Troy Vtac Alpha tube and the OD is about 1.5"

I recovered a projectile out of 1 of the goats I knocked over last weekend.
Distance was approx 180m. Impact was through the front of the neck. Dropped it on the spot.
Found the projectile in the shoulder blade when I cut off one of the front legs.

Originally Posted by foxhound

Any one tried the fiocchi 223 55gr fmj, im gettting good results through the NEA 15, paid $36 per 50 round boxs. They also make a 69gr load and 77gr load. Target products in Timaru are the main importer dont think there is the 77gr load here but they do have 55 and 69 loads

Is it brass cased? That would be a good price for reloadable brass

A friend and I spent the afternoon trying out various loads etc, I have a 20" RRA AR15 and he has a 16" MR1 Benelli and the Hornady training ammo S/P showed good accuracy in both rifles, we then put it over the Chronograph which supprised both of us the 20" barrel was average 2911fps and out of the MR1 16" was 2662fps this was 250fps variation showing a 63fps loss per inch.
Both barrels are 1in9 twist.
This takes the training ammo out of contention in a 16" barrel for larger game shooting dose it not.

Those speeds are close to what I've chronyed it at also.
I don't know where they get their box speed from as I can't match it

Originally Posted by Spanners

Those speeds are close to what I've chronyed it at also.
I don't know where they get their box speed from as I can't match it

Have you tried it from a 24" barrel like they quote?

Not that it worries me as my 223 doesn't seem to like it anyway.

Ya was still short on speed. Closer though