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 Hot Shot 5.56x45 The good the bad the ugly? 
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Is it me or is this ammo shitty? Buddy of mine brought over 3 boxes, fired the first box of 20 flawlessly with decent accuracy and the casings weren't bent or anything.

Second box, failure to feed, every single round.
I found several rounds with the bullet itself missing from the casing without the primer being hit inside the box, every time I tried feeding a round, the round wouldn't seat into the chamber and it would actually push the round into the casing! I thought it was my bolt not pushing the round into the chamber correctly or a magazine issue but I tried several magazines and had some green tip and tracer 5.56 and those worked fine.

I Was afraid to test the other box or ammo.. Help?

I feel bad for my buddy cause he bought 3 boxes cause he wanted to shoot my AR during his bachelors party (today is his wedding.. Military wedding all the way!) and he ended up wasting money. I acquired several boxes of some green tip/tracers from my old civilian employer though so we burned through those. Which fired flawlessly and no failure to feed or extract.

Anyone got anything to say? Is it just a bad batch we got or is hot shot just bad ammo? Never used this stuff before it says M193 on it so I don't know if hot shot makes like different variants or 5.56, like if they have a better 5.56 box for more money and we bought their cheapest stuff?







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Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:32 am
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Id say it was a bad batch of ammo. Im not familiar with hotshot, is it factory reload or new?? especially if its factory reload it may have a lot number and contacting the maker may be helpful to them and may get you a new box of ammo....maybe, maybe not after doing some googling

A quick google search shows the rifle stuff to be decent enough but lots of mention of being very dirty ammo. Looks to be low end plinking ammo so i wouldnt expect 100% functionality. keep running the stuff


Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:44 am
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toys in the toybox wrote:
Id say it was a bad batch of ammo. Im not familiar with hotshot, is it factory reload or new?? especially if its factory reload it may have a lot number and contacting the maker may be helpful to them and may get you a new box of ammo....maybe, maybe not after doing some googling

A quick google search shows the rifle stuff to be decent enough but lots of mention of being very dirty ammo. Looks to be low end plinking ammo so i wouldnt expect 100% functionality. keep running the stuff


Yeah.. I'm not sure I'm gonna check, I don't mind for plinking and if it's dirty... But I will check to see about the ammo


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Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:07 am
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Def. Bad batch I used to buy that all the time dirty as hell but never had any problems feeding or firing I think it is a great plunking ammo

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Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:55 am
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PLINKING damnit! I not a U! :gibbs: :045:

Hotshot has other companies make their ammo. I know they've had PMC make some of their .223 55gr in the past. I still have a case of it.

Does it state where it was made on the box?


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Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:18 am
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Hot Shot is Century's brand used when importing ammo..

In the past, Hot Shot 5.56 was Romanian-made military surplus SS109. I had some of it and it was decent stuff, seemed to perform on par with M193.

I believe they are also currently importing from Hungary, and that may be the current producer of the Hot Shot 5.56.

Look on the box - it will probably have the country of origin printed.


Wed Jun 26, 2013 5:24 pm
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I have only used Federal or PMC in my AR. Only issuw I had was the gas key that came loose...

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