Hello-

I had a friend pick up a couple of boxes of PMC ammo for his 300 win mag. I haven't ever used PMC, but have only heard bad news about that brand of ammo. Any experience with accuracy, bullet performance, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jasper243

The 45/70 and 375 loads use Hornady bullets. 45/70 load shoots well in 1895G, 375 load was mediocre in M70. I would use the 45/70 load in future as it performs well and the price was right. I doubt I would use PMC 270 grain load in 375.

I've had some PMC .270 Win factory ammo shoot really well in a M70 Featherweight. I've also experienced misfires in another rifle (7x64 - if memory serves).

I personally stopped using PMC after I bought a stack of their .223 brass to load for a friend. What a pain in the posterior to work with! Crimped primer pockets in commercial brass, extremely varying powder volume etc etc. We solved the problem by buying some Lapua brass. Never looked back.

I'm not out to paint a bad picture of PMC, just relate the experience I have had - good and bad.
- mike

Only the one I bought for my 300 weatherby which were fairly old. Presure was sky high and accuraccy very bad. After shooting about 10 of them ,I pulled the rest of the bullets and reloaded them after trimming the cases back to the proper length.

I have shot thousands of rds of their 9mm and 223 never had any trouble with it.

I believe some of them used to be loaded with sierra bullets, but that was 3-4 years ago.

in my experience it has been very acceptable, both with accuracy and on game.

i ahve heard complaints about the brass, but persoanlly, i like it.

my experiences are with .308 winchester 150-grain softpoints.

I bought 1,000 rounds of their 147-gr. FMJ 308 load a few months ago and I've run about half of it through my M-70 FWT. When I use it all up, I'll buy more. This is my main rifle, and I shoot it like most people shoot a 22. This load did about 1.5 MOA at 100 yards in the tests I ran before I bought so much of it, and seems consistent. I have not shot it off the bench since I got a good zero, but I like it.

Hope this helps, Okie John

My experience with them was with some .44 Special loads. I had picked up several boxes from different retailers, gun shows, etc. over a period of months. When I finally got to the range I experienced about 10% misfires. I've passed on their offerings since then.

Many years ago, I shot some of their 150 gr softpoints in my finicky Model 70 lightweight carbine in 30-06. I was surprised to see that it shot much better than factory remington or winchester hunting loads. I was so curious, that I pulled one of the bullets to see what type of powder and how much they were loading. (Back then, at least, it was 49 grains of a short stick type powder, similar to IMR-4895) So I thought I should try handloading a similar charge of 4895 behind my favorite 150 gr hunting bullet to see if I could come close to the PMC's performance. My handloads turned out to be even a little bit better, so I was happy. Later, I found even better loads, but that "PMC inspired" IMR-4895 load was a darn good one in my '06, and I don't recall ever finding factory ammo that grouped better than that cheap orange boxed PMC.

I've had pretty good luck with PMC ammo, about as well as with any other brand of ammo anyway. My Rem 700 in 7mm Rem mag likes thier 140gr "Silver Line" ammo that's loaded with Sierra GameKing bullets. My Savage 22-250 loves their plain old 55gr PSP ammo.

I've had several other rifles that liked PMC too, but like any other ammo, it doesn't work well in all rifles.