I used to be just like you: living with “ammo uncertainty,” which is a condition in which you ain’t got no gosh-blessed 223 Rem ammo for target shooting. But my situation got better! It got better because I bought myself a whole mess of the good stuff.

Hornady Frontier 223 Rem. It’s what happens when the U.S. government’s Lake City Army Ammunition Plant of Missouri loads Hornady’s high-quality Nebraska-made bullets. (It was a lot more likely to happen than a Rhode Island ammo manufacturer loading Vermont-made bullets.)

This cartridge flicks its 55 grain full metal jacket (which contains this much steel: zero) at a muzzle velocity of 3,240 fps. Doesn’t get much more typical of a 223 Rem range load than that. The cases are brass, totally brand new and just as reloadable, with the dark necks and shoulders that are indicative of military brass. Lake City hasn’t loaded a corrosive primer in decades, and this stuff’s fresh as the morning dew or some such similarly fresh thing.

Do you see the plastic field boxes this ammo comes in? Good. We’d hate for you to miss them. They’re really neat.