Worst 5.56 Ammo Review, Possibly Ever

[Chontkleer]

I bought a big box of something called "Silver Bear" a few years ago and finally tried it recently. 40 rounds all went bang, and went generally in the direction I shot it, but... I think I must have brushed the barrel three times and sent 20 patches down and the gunk still just coming and coming. Don't even know if they make/sell it anymore.

[bohoki]

not only that but one accidentally got in with my nickel winchester brass and broke my lee unbreakable decapping rod

now i check with magnet and flashlight cause i did find some berdan brass once but i dint notice the silver one cause i knew i only had 100 nickel ones i fired that day

[FourLoko]

Silver Bear is some of the better steel cased ammo, plenty of people use it no problem

just like the hate on Wolf is unjustified, nothing wrong with it

/cool story bro

[cali-man]

Olympic had some bad ammo many moons ago. Bought a bunch only to find out it was crap ammo. Ended up selling it to someone on ar15.com that had good luck with it at a loss on my end. I don't think there has been worse out there yet.

[The War Wagon]

I'd rate Silver Bear at the very top... of the bottom of the barrel ammo.

Below it would be;

- Wolf
- Brown Bear
- Tula

Because I picked up 700 rounds of lacquered Wolf as part of a larger deal several years ago, I HAVE my bottom-of-the-barrel/last stand ammo. I've got to blow through 12k of brass-cased ammo to GET to it, however.

If I DIDN'T have that, I'd of probably laid away 500 - 1,000 rounds of Silver Bear as my preferred choice of 'crap' ammo by now. I don't have any experience with their .223 ammo, but my PTR91 does like their .308. It's dirty, and hardly qualifies as "accurate," but there is WORSE .308 out there (Venezuelan, Chilean, INDIAN!).

Based on my experience with their .308, I'd trust their .223, just ahead of all OTHER crappy .223 offerings.

[cali-man]

Good link for ammo reviews.

http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=210