“Rokslide Special” .223 Training ammunition?

[Levy_ken]

I just looked at their site- it seems to me that they are just a website and have everything drop shipped. It's pretty common- especially with the low price winners on ammoseek, etc. Even at $0.74/round, I'd think it would be worth it to go with a BF 77gr otm or similar. the price would go up to ~$0.93/round, could be worth it.

Definitely seems they’re drop-shipping.

Also you might be right. I actually have like 200 rounds of the 75gr Frontier that I got a great deal on somewhere else though, so I’m gonna try those out and see how they do and then decide. So far I’ve just done some plinking with it in my AR and it feeds/functions fine and was able to hit silhouette targets at 400-500 without re-zeroing, but haven’t actually put them through the chrono or shot them for groups to see what they’ll do yet. I can try and post up some results if people are interested.

 

[Ajsomp]

Yeah $73 to ship is ridiculous for sure, just meant that the overall price/round still works out to be the same or slightly less per round than the other options I've found so far. Classic case of "low price" and jack the shipping to the moon.

I always sort out shipping rating higher >4 for that very reason.

 

[JoeK]

With AAC out of the game for now I like Norma 69gr, was $.50/rd a little while back and
i picked up a case with my fingers crossed my trainer would like it and fortunately it shoots "fine".

Right now the 62gr Norma is .50/round from armedinmichigan. free shipping at $800 I think its 3% CC fee which isn't so bad if you order enough for the free ship. Should be fine for training and I hear the norma brass is good for reloading too if your up for loading hunting rounds. Or probably get a few bucks back selling the brass.

I also added a couple boxes of ADI 69gr to test at .75/rd

I'm looking to set up a progressive press to load my own training ammo with primers at 4-5c and 75-77gr projectiles right around 20c.
Maybe it's Not so much worth saving 15-20c/rd but I think it's compelling to have a consistent supply if I can get the process efficient. at .50c/rnd savings I'm cheap enough to spend some time loading.

 

[Jermh]

Few hundred more rounds of the 69 ADI’s incoming. I’ve been shooting the Frontier stuff quite a bit due to price and being able to buy it off the shelf easily instead of having to order online, but I’m finally done dealing with the constant light strikes I get with that stuff.

Last straw was a few days ago when I went to shoot a groundhog that I didn’t feel like burning a TMK on. *click*, rack bolt, *click*, rack bolt, bang. Nobody got time for that.

 

[bojangles808]

I have been practicing with frontier 75 grain at .50c a round.. It is penty good for me to work on positional, speed and wobble zone training out to 400ish on pizza box sized gongs. Ya im not zeroing a rifle with it.

Does the 75grain frontier fit and run in the OEM Tikka mags in a 223?