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Offline varmintman

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« on: November 30, 2007, 06:28:05 AM »
This may been asked before but does anyone shot military 5.56 ammo out of their 223 H&R. Thanks for any replies.
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2007, 06:33:00 AM »
The 5.56 ammo pressures are to high for the Handi. The owners manual even tells you to never fire such ammo through it. Dale
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Re: military ammo
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2007, 06:37:18 AM »
H&R includes a warning against it with every .223 rifle, the owner's manual also warns against using ammo that isn't made to SAAMI standards.

Tim

http://www.hr1871.com/documents/manuals/HR_NEF_HANDI_RIFLE_MANUAL.pdf

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Re: military ammo
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2007, 06:51:22 AM »
OK, thank you, I have some military ammo for my mini and was thinking I could use in both rifles but guess it's not possible. thanks again.
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Re: military ammo
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2007, 06:03:15 AM »
Well, H&R warns against hand loads, too.

So, is the mil-surp warning a Lawyer spec or an engineer's spec?
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Re: military ammo
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2007, 06:08:34 AM »
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Re: military ammo
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2007, 04:36:32 PM »
Looks like honest "Engineering spec".

A friend was wanting a single shot that would handle 5.56mm mil-surp.

Not a good thing that the 5.56mm can be chambered in the .223.
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