Winchester Q3130 and SMQ XM80 are minute of barn. Though they are better then rocks when the zombie apocalypse starts


Gold medal match is sub moa ammo.

 

$25.box is too rich for my blood... but you takes what you can gets these days.

Winchester M80 is the new version of Federal's Lake City M80... Winchester took over the Lake City plant 2 years ago, from Federal./ATK.

 

Ammo is hard to come by , $ 24 a box is hard to swallow , but if its available , its not much more then I paid for it a while back

Winchester LC M80 ammo

I posted in the "Bargain " section , even though they are not much of a bargain @ $ 22.99 a box , but was curious as to them being advertised as from the LC plant , what components were used . Magnetic Bullets & LC Brass "20" " LR " & I will pull one to see what weight Powder & is in it & what...

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here are the Chronograph results from my two Rifles

New Win. M80 Chrono results

I shot some of this ammo from my SOCOM 16 & my 18.5 " GWLA build . Shot pretty decent , about 2 - 2 1/2" from the SOCOM 16 & a solid 2" or less from the Wolfe ,Med WT. CL .18.5" bbl.. Chrono is Magnetospeed SOCOM 16. -Avg. Vel. -- 2651 fps. , ES - 30 fps. , SD 12 fps . ( 5 shot ) 18.5"...

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To me it shot pretty good , of course its not Match ammo ,but it has good Brass , labeled "LR" .

 

Thanks for answer, I have used Winchester "white box" in the past. It was relatively inexpensive back then but remember it being about the least accurate of any 7.62x51 I'd used, including surplus.

 

but remember it being about the least accurate of any 7.62x51 I'd used, including surplus.

Just remember... any M80 ammos is going to be MOBC (Minute of Body Cavity) accurate, that's what it's intended for. Yes, you may have unearthed a lot that was accurate in your rifle, but that is the exception, not the rule. That isn't to say M80 can't be accurate... but, again, the stars really have to align.

 

Here is French SF 147 grain ball.

 

That stuff has horrible accuracy. Shot those along with federal xm80c out of a precision rifle and man were the groups horrible. There's plenty of ammo out there but the prices are heavy, but don't think that'll change for a while if at all.