Best Ammunition Manufacturers
 

If you had to rate the following Ammunition Companies starting with the best and ending with the worst. Define best in terms of reliability, accuracy, cleanliness.... This is an overall manufacturer quality rating not caliber specific but feel free to elaborate on specific lines or add other manufacturers you have used.

guess you can call this a poll

Remington
Peters
Winchester
Federal
Silver Armory
Black hills
Hornady
Fiocchi
Wolf
Privy Partizan

and how do they compare to military surplus ammunition by the same standards?

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Hornady is the best ive shot. I wish they made ammo in 300 WSM. Other then that it depends on the gun and cartridge. Overall i feel Hornady is the best though.

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i know alot depends on the condition of the firearm and storage but i saw everyone one another thread saying remington was bad (in terms of rimfire) so i was wondering what is good and what is better.

so assuming the bore of the rifleis clean and the ammo is fresh out a airtight container which is better which is best and which you would touch with a 10 ft pole?

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For Centerfire Rifles i like Hornady, For Rimfire rifles i like Winchester Supreme, For shotgun shells i like Federal. Other then those i really dont care about any of the rest.

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I like cci or federal for rimfire ammo. I reload most of my centerfire stuff. I do like hornady and the new federal fusion for hunting. I usually pick up umc(rem) for plinking in my .223 and 9mm. Shotgun, I don't really have a preference.

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Hornady- Very innovative. They load a lot of 'metric' cartridges and load them correctly unlike any other domestic ammunition company. When I buy ammo these days, its mostly Hornady.

Black Hills- Their match ammo is very good. Their remanufactured ammo is nicely priced and isn't going to blow your gun apart like some of the remanufactured garbage out there.

Federal- Outstanding match ammo, though expensive.

Winchester- AA trap ammo is tops- only because their hulls are the best for reloading. White box ammo was really cheap and decent blasting ammo.

Wolf- cheap (at least used to be) way to keep combloc guns going 'bang.' Not much good for anything else. Their 'gold' line of ammo is made by Prvi Partisan- its good stuff, though not really a bargain. I buy a lot of it in 7.62x54r just for the brass which is both hard to find and expensive.

Fiocchi- Used to have very low priced loadings for .45 and 9mm, not so much anymore, but that's the trend of all ammo. The 9mm from Fiocchi shot better in my Beretta than any other brand of ammo.

Remington- corelokt ammo might be the perfect deer ammo. Remington grossly underloads metric cartridges.

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For shotguns Winchester Buckshot, and Remington small shot

For Centerfire Remington for big game, and Hornady for Varmints

For Rimfire CCI for clean firing game loads, and Eley for targets.

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Hornady

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That's another question like, " Is Ford better than Chevy?". I like Hornady as a personal preference, but I think each manufacture has plus and minises.

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Black Hills Match stuff I find to be the best. At least in most of my rifles. I had excellent results with their .308, and .338 LM, though I was less impressed with their .223 Remanufactured Match stuff. Didn't seem to shoot real well in my gun. But then, like we should all know, every gun isn't going to like the same ammo.
Now I have also been VERY impressed with the Lapua brand Ammo, Norma, and the custom stuff from Dakota Arms.

I refuse to shoot Remington match stuff (rifle) , or wolf of any kind, but I also like, or will shoot Federal GOld Medal Match if that is all I can find. All that depends on whether I run out of Hand loads since in general, those are the best shooting for each of my rifles.

I have nothing against Hornandy ammo as it is well made and accurate. Have see it shoot nice tight groups, just not as well out of my guns as some of the others.

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Federal and Hornady are my two favorites.

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thanks guys, keep em coming

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For me it would be

Hornady
Winchester
Federal
Black Hills
Remington
Wolf

I don't have experience with the others really. I think Peters is made by Remignton though isn't it? I might be thinking of something else though.

For rimfires I would go in this order.

Winchester
CCI
Federal
RWS
remington.

For shotgun it would be

Winchester
Federal
Brenneke
Remington
Fiocchi

In case you haven't noticed there is a trend there. I tend to have really good luck with Winchester ammo and don't much care for remington. When I test ammo remington will usually be towards the bottom of my list.

Paul

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My favorites:

Rifle- Weatherby, Hornady, Remington, Winchester

Handgun- CorBon, Magtech, Winchester, Remington

Shotgun- Remington Heavy Dove, Remington STS, Win AA

All in that order. Cost is a factor in shotgun ammo due to volume.

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I've always tested a gun/barrel with many different brands to find out which shot which best, and in my .300mag it shot cheapo remington better than fancy fed premium.

My .270 also loves cheap federal 130gr.

All I can say is find the grain bullet you want to shoot and test a variety in that weight. don't ocmpar feder 140's to remington 130s......

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Shotgun-Remington shure shot... i got everyone convinced that hunts with me that its the shells....THey bought some...I think i am just a good shot though.
Rifle-I have never gone wrong with remington core lok.

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Remington and Fiocchi for shotgun.
CCI for rimfire.
Core Lokts and Federal for rifle.

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I'm kind of spoiled. My Remington 700XCR shoots clover leaves with the $11.00 a box Federal 'Power Shock' ammo in .30-06. I don't need to try anything else and it performs great on whitetails.

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Winchester

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I'll say Hornady as well

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My ruger compact loves the reloaded stuff from Black Hills in 223 the Hornady 55grn ballistic tips also group less than a inch.My 243 rem.700 will shoot best with the Federal Fusion 95 grn.My old rem.788 in 308 shoots the winchester 150grn the best.My savage 110 likes the cheap federal power shock 100grn.MyNEFsingle shotlikes 45grn UMC hollow points in 223 I really like what ever is on sale but my rifles have their own favorites.I hope my rem. model 591 likes this new Centurion 5mm rimfire ammo as well as it likes the old 38grn remington stuff,it's capable of 1/2inch 100yard groups on a still day,that would poke a squirrel's eye out look out 17hmr the king of rimfires is on the comeback,PS I'm by no means running down the 17hmr I own one of these and it's accuracy is nearly identical,it's just that incredible thump that the 5mm produces when it hit's that makes it king to me.