In case anyone is curious, I just got my 2 cases of xm855pd and sorted through one of them very carefully. There was another post that clamed it was not only no good but downright dangerous to shoot.
Out of the case, 12 rounds were obviously unsafe, very bent necks and split cases. I consider 1.2% damaged rounds completely acceptable for bulk military ammo.
I actually weighed each round out of the case and sorted them by weight and quality (someone from the other thread recommended this, it was freaking tedious and I won’t be doing it again.)
About 450 of the remaining rounds were perfect, 300 were fine, the rest were fugly but shootable. The average weight was 185 grains per case and never a deviation of more than 10 grains, therefore it is safe to say no squibs, the other post clamed that there was 20 something grains of powder.
A lot of the rounds got thrown into the “Fugly” category because of green paint on the case, I don’t know if this will gum up a chamber but I have no problem using it as range ammo, and will see then. I have chronographed xm855pd before, but I hope to get to the range this week to compare what the “Light” rounds and the heavier ones clock at.
Bottom line is that this stuff is fine, especially in todays ammo economy. You certainly need to sort it out but not the extent that I did.
I will post my Chrono data when I get it.