I was given a "case" of 500 rounds of this ammo and it shot DEAD ON with some adjustments for shot placement from where my overpriced name brand ammo was printing. Felt a bit "hotter" than the name brand. Did a "water jug" test to see how it expanded and actually recovered the bullet from a hay backstop. Expanded to at least twice its original diameter, just wish I had some ballistic gel to get a better idea of expansion (how much was created by the hay for example). Did blow the hell out of the water jug thats for sure. Ammo was extremely consistent from shot to shot and I managed just over 1" groups at 100 yds shooting off of a padded fore end rest with the butt shouldered and that was on a very cold Wisconsin day when I was either stiff or battling the shivers from both the cold and the previous evenings over imbibment. Sure beats paying for a name when you can get the same quality from these folks. My next stop is to try their Reman ammo. If it is as good as Freedom Arms says it is, I may stick to Reman for all my ammo needs. I must admit that, for a much lower cost per round, I got almost as good a grouping with this ammo and with the aforementioned name brand ammo using Wolf Polycoated ammo which in my opinion is by far the best buy on the market. you just cannot take steel cased ammo to every range so sometimes you are forced to spend more to obtain brass cased ammo for no true logical reason. Wolf makes a superb SP round in both 55 and 62 grain but I have not bothered with the 55grain ammo as I like the slight edge in delivered foot poundage that the slightly heavier bullet provides. But if I had my "druthers", I would only buy Wolf 62 gr SP polycoated ammo. Despite some folks belief, the Russian ammo shoots no dirtier than the high priced American made product just DONT get the older Wolf ammo that has lacquer sealed primers as the powder mix was different and did shoot with somewhat more carbon output than the newer Wolf products that feature a polymer coating. When Wolf went with the polycoating they also listened to their biggest markets complaints and also changed up their powder blend and currently Wolf produces as good a round as you can buy and is every bit as consistent as any of its American made counterparts at 3-5 times the price. But for when you NEED brass cased ammo I HIGHLY reccommend Freedom Arms products and especially this 62 grain SP round
Published on 4/13/2016