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Posted: 8/29/2014 4:47:51 PM EDT
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I went to Walmart and Academy today to look at ammo and they're both packed full. I got three 30 rnd boxes of ZQI 556 NATO 62g at Walmart then I went to Academy to look at HD ammo. I was looking at the PDX1 and they're nickel plated. Why would they be nickel plated? I've seen pistol cartridges as such but a rifle cartridge?
Anyway I picked a box of Hornady 55g V-Max. By the way the PDX1 were $30 for 20 rnd and I paid $20 for the Hornady also 20 rnd. |
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I went to Walmart and Academy today to look at ammo and they're both packed full. I got three 30 rnd boxes of ZQI 556 NATO 62g at Walmart then I went to Academy to look at HD ammo. I was looking at the PDX1 and they're nickel plated. Why would they be nickel plated? I've seen pistol cartridges as such but a rifle cartridge? Anyway I picked a box of Hornady 55g V-Max. By the way the PDX1 were $30 for 20 rnd and I paid $20 for the Hornady also 20 rnd. Corrosion resistance, better extraction and feeding, supposedly. |
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I went to Walmart and Academy today to look at ammo and they're both packed full. I got three 30 rnd boxes of ZQI 556 NATO 62g at Walmart then I went to Academy to look at HD ammo. I was looking at the PDX1 and they're nickel plated. Why would they be nickel plated? I've seen pistol cartridges as such but a rifle cartridge? Anyway I picked a box of Hornady 55g V-Max. By the way the PDX1 were $30 for 20 rnd and I paid $20 for the Hornady also 20 rnd. Yep, and you passed up a decent bonded round, and bought a varmint round. Good call there. There was a reason they were 30 bucks. Most premium commercial rounds are nickel. It really matters not. |
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Nickel cases for pistol rounds were touted as more reliable cause the reduced friction (over bare brass) made them feed better.
I doubt there is any gun out there that would fail with brass and run well with nickel cases. as in its mostly bs. Some uninformed consumer opens the box sees nickel cases and is all whoooo. |
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I went to Walmart and Academy today to look at ammo and they're both packed full. I got three 30 rnd boxes of ZQI 556 NATO 62g at Walmart then I went to Academy to look at HD ammo. I was looking at the PDX1 and they're nickel plated. Why would they be nickel plated? I've seen pistol cartridges as such but a rifle cartridge? Anyway I picked a box of Hornady 55g V-Max. By the way the PDX1 were $30 for 20 rnd and I paid $20 for the Hornady also 20 rnd. It's great ammunition with excellent terminal ballistics. I have one rifle that hates it (groups 3ish MOA) and another that loves it (1ish MOA). It's worth the price. |
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Would that be because your rifles have different twists? Possibly, but I doubt it. The 1/7 hates it and the 1/8 loves it. Given the twist rates and medium weight slug, that really shouldn't play into the equation all that much. I just chock it up to the fact that some particular rifles just prefer or disagree with particular ammunition. Speed up or slow down the velocity by 75fps and I could see different results. Hell, just shoot it out of a different rifle of exactly the same configuration and I could see radically different results. Sometimes, it's just like that. Otherwise, that particular rifle is a solid performer and gives me dependable accuracy of around 1.5 MOA. |
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