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Offline FourBee

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Black Hills any good?
« on: February 06, 2008, 10:05:27 AM »
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Bought a couple of boxes of .223  BH 55gr SP to acquaint myself with my new CZ527 LUX rifle when it comes in.   The price range is great, but is the ammo reliable as far as being able to give satisfactory target groups?

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Re: Black Hills any good?
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2008, 11:18:59 AM »
Black Hills started off small but have grown to be quite a large supplier of ammo. They make an excellent product and supply huge quantities to our military and to law enforcement agencies.
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Re: Black Hills any good?
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2008, 02:23:25 PM »
FourBee,

Sometime ago I bought two boxes of Black Hills .223 remanufactured ammo. One box of 55gr SP bullets, and one box of 52gr BTHP match bullets. In my rifle (a Savage model 12) the ammo with 52gr BTHP bullets grouped slightly under 1" at 100 yards. The ammo with 55gr SP bullets produced most groups measuring about 1.5" at 100 yards, some were better slightly over 1".

Note: Some rounds of the 55gr ammo box did not chamber (bolt hard to close). The cases looked too long, so I pulled the bullets from a few cases and measured the length of the cases. They were in fact longer than the 1.760" max for .223. I measured the length of some other cases as best as I could without pulling the bullets for I thought maybe I was stretching the cases when pulling the bullets. Still the cases measured longer than 1.760" as well.


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Re: Black Hills any good?
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2008, 01:03:13 PM »
Damn good  8)
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Re: Black Hills any good?
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2008, 09:28:17 PM »
Some folks love the BH ammo and but my own experience matches that of M5000's. I was surprised at the variation in case length and here too I found a number that the length was over spec.
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Re: Black Hills any good?
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2008, 03:59:40 PM »
Thanks mountainview:
I'll keep that in mind in case any show signs of difficult chambering.

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Re: Black Hills any good?
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2008, 04:43:12 AM »
Quote from: Marc5000 on February 06, 2008, 02:23:25 PM
FourBee,

Sometime ago I bought two boxes of Black Hills .223 remanufactured ammo. One box of 55gr SP bullets, and one box of 52gr BTHP match bullets. In my rifle (a Savage model 12) the ammo with 52gr BTHP bullets grouped slightly under 1" at 100 yards. The ammo with 55gr SP bullets produced most groups measuring about 1.5" at 100 yards, some were better slightly over 1".

Note: Some rounds of the 55gr ammo box did not chamber (bolt hard to close). The cases looked too long, so I pulled the bullets from a few cases and measured the length of the cases. They were in fact longer than the 1.760" max for .223. I measured the length of some other cases as best as I could without pulling the bullets for I thought maybe I was stretching the cases when pulling the bullets. Still the cases measured longer than 1.760" as well.


Marc

Marc - What did Black Hills say about it when you told them about the problems you indicate you had ?
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