Posted October 19, 2016 1:32 pm by Comments

I’ve been waiting for this day to arrive for many years, and it’s finally here. Barnes Bullets got into the ammunition game a few years back and has done an excellent job providing hunters with high-quality ammunition loaded with its fine line of bullets.

Barnes will initially offer 5.56 NATO with 69-grain and 85-grain bullets, 175-grain .308 Winchester, 220-grain .300 Winchester Magnum and 300-grain .338 Lapua Magnum.

When I spoke to Thad Stevens, Barnes’ vice president of business development, and asked him why Barnes decided to do a line of match ammo, he said, “We wanted to offer something for the commercial sector that was on par with what we are doing for the military.”

The military spent a lot of money over the last decade improving the ammunition it issues to its snipers. It has set increasingly demanding requirements for muzzle velocities and consistency from one lot of ammunition to the next.

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Barnes is making its projectiles for the 5.56 and .308 Match product lines. For the larger bullets, it uses Sierra MatchKings.

Those lot-to-lot consistency requirements exist so snipers don’t have to worry about confirming their zero and dope every time they get a new lot of ammo. The …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo

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