500 Rounds of 5.56×45 Ammo by Hornady Frontier – 68gr BTHP Match

This 5.56×45 cartridge from Hornady’s Frontier line of ammunition has an incredibly accurate 68 grain BTHP Match projectile. Its swaged lead core, Advanced Manufacturing Process jacket, and precisely formed boat tail all ensure that the bullet keeps its course far downrange, making it as worthy for competition as it is sending off troublesome coyote. No home intruder would like one of these bullets to greet them to your home, either — they’ll wish they’d chosen a different home to intrude.

Hornady partnered with the legendary Lake City Army Ammunition Plant to build this cartridge. As such it’s got a rugged military-grade brass casing with annealed shoulder and neck, non-corrosive Boxer primer, and consistent charge of clean burning ball powder. It’s an affordable round owing not to any cut corners, but rather Lake City’s massive output capacity. The sprawling complex’s thorough quality assurance procedure has seen to it that this is a military cartridge from tip to toe.

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Rifle Ammunition Overview

Most rifle cartridges in use today originated as hunting or military calibers. As such, they typically provide strong medium or long range performance and relatively stout recoil (which may not be felt as such by the user, if a good pad is fitted to the rifle’s stock).

Ammunition for bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles typically uses necked down cases to fire relatively long, low caliber bullets. Cartridges intended for lever action rifles are distinguished by their use of round-nosed (or polymer-tipped) bullets. This allows the cartridges to sit end to end in the tubular magazines of lever actions without risk of accidental ignition.