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One other reason for M855 ammo inaccuracy
The usual reason that people give for the not very accurate performance of 62 grain armor piercing 5.56 ammo is the difficulty of placing the armor piercing steel pin in the center of the bullet. However I suspect that another major culprit is the fact that the tip of the bullets are dipped in what appear to be green enamel paint. In the cartridges I have examined from both Federal and Winchester that paint job is not very uniform, and that off center weighting probably has something to do with a box of M855 ammo making a 100 yard target look like somebody fired a shot gun at it.
Has anyone tried dipping known accurate ammo bullet tips in paint to see what the paint does to the accuracy?
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