Guns & Ammo – October 2019

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cases, and package the ammunition in a
series on the same machine.
Hornady provides the projectiles to
LCAAP for loading Frontier ammo rather
than the standard military M855 or M856
projectile. The .223 Rem. and .300 Black-
out are loaded to SAAMI specifications. The
5.56 NATO cases and propellant are made
to military specifications using Hornady
bullets loaded on LCAAP’s high-volume
machinery. This high-production rate sig-
nificantly lowers production costs, and the
savings are passed on to the customer.
The teaming arrangement with LCAAP
also provides ammunition loaded with
high-strength mil-spec cartridge cases and
a crimped primer along with mil-spec
propellants.
Hornady offers loads with their own
production-equivalent versions of the M193 55-grain full metal
jacket (FMJ) and M855 62-grain FMJ. The real plus here is that
Hornady offers a large range of bullet weights and styles to cover
just about anything you’d want to do with an AR-15; from var-
minting to plinking, to law enforcement training. Bullet styles are
available in FMJ, hollowpoint (HP), soft point (SP) and boattail

hollowpoint (BTHP) match. Offered bullet

weights in the 5.56 range from 55- to 75-

grain, and .223 Rem. loads range from 55-

to 68-grains. The .300 Blackout is offered

with a 125-grain FMJ bullet.

All bullets are manufactured by Hor-

nady with their usual high standards for

quality and accuracy. It will be difficult to

find another line of ammo at this price point that matches Fron-

tier’s quality and range of bullet weights and styles.

Here, a short discussion of the difference between 5.56 NATO

and .223 Rem. is in order. The 5.56 NATO came first, and the

.223 Rem. was a commercialized 5.56 round with a redesigned

throat and freebore in order to produce better accuracy for a com-

For those who shoot in bulk, barrels con-

taining 13,889 rounds of 5.56 NATO 55-

or 62-grain FMJ are also available. $4,600

Frontier cartridges are available in

20-round boxes to 1,000-round military

ammo cans. (The 420-count can is shown.)

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