Ammunition Consistency Testing: Remington Premier Match

Today we continue the ammunition consistency testing by adding another .223 Remington round to the leaderboard. It’s kind of like adding a car to the board of lap times on Top Gear, except instead of The Stig you’ve got this slob right here, and instead of witty commentary with stunning video you get some statistics and science drivel with a couple crappy still photos. But hey, it’s not like you really wanted to do those TPS reports anyway so let’s get testing.

As all good studies and reports do I’m clearly stating the testing procedure and output metrics right up front. Well, more like linking to them in this here post but they’re still being stated. The only difference is that we’re now using 20 round samples of ammunition.

Speaking of samples of ammunition today’s offering is Remington’s Premier Match .223 Remington 77gr product, something that seems perfectly suited for that portion of the National Match crowd who are too new to know how to load their own ammunition, too lazy to make enough rounds, or too rich to care about the price. I’m pretty sure I fall into two of those categories (with aspirations of falling into the third), so in other words it’s a round that seems purpose built for me. But how well does it stack up against the competition?

BOX PLOTS! I love box plots. So much information in such a small package. The new ammo under examination is on the right, accompanied by a selection of other brands for comparison and the current reigning champ (Wilson Combat). Remington is certainly more normally distributed about the median than the other brands, but does that translate into smaller IQR? BAR GRAPH TIME!

Huh, looks like Remington’s Premier Match ammunition is just slightly better than the average .223 Remington offering. Considering the thing costs a buck and a half a round I expected a little better performance, but the IQR is still nothing to sneeze at. For the money it seems like Wilson Combat’s 77gr offering (at $0.02 more per round) is the better deal, but Wolf will do if you’re cheap and in a pinch.

Join us next time when we test yet more brands of ammunition and give you flashbacks to high school statistics classes.

And now the summary tables, the complete list of rounds we’ve tested and their IQR (along with average price per round).

Brand and Weight	Caliber	IQR	$/round
Wilson Combat 77gr Sierra HPBT Match	.223 Rem	19	$1.52
Wilson Combat 65gr Sierra SP BT	.223 Rem	21	$1.52
Hornady 75gr BTHP Match	.223 Rem	29	$0.79
CorBon 69gr HPBT	.223 Rem	30	$1.18
Remington Premier Match 77gr BTHP	.223 Rem	36	$1.50
Winchester 64gr “Power Point” SP	.223 Rem	38	$0.82
Wolf 55gr FMJ	.223 Rem	40	$0.21
Federal XM193F 55gr FMJ	.223 Rem	40	$0.32
Pierce 55gr HP-BT	.223 Rem	42	$?.??
Nosler Varmint 40gr Ballistic Tip	.223 Rem	44	$0.86
Handloads – 20.8gr N-135 75gr Hornady HPBT Match	.223 Rem	49	$?.??
Handloads – 21gr IMR 3031 75gr Hornady HPBT Match	.223 Rem	52	$?.??
Winchester PDX-1 60gr SC-HP	.223 Rem	58	$1.45
American Eagle 55gr FMJ-BT	.223 Rem	68	$0.30

Brand and Weight	Caliber	IQR	$/round
CMMG 147gr	.300 BLK	26	$0.78
PNW M 155gr	.300 BLK	28	$0.90
PNW D 220gr	.300 BLK	54	$1.08

Brand and Weight	Caliber	IQR	$/round
Hornady Superformance Match 150gr SST	.308 Win	26	$1.21
Wilson Combat 168gr Sierra HPBT Match	.308 Win	28	$1.99
PMC Bronze 147gr FMJ BT	.308 Win	39	$0.50
SetPoint – 44gr Varget 150gr Hornady FMJ BT	.308 Win	52	$1.74
Prvi Partizan 150gr FMJ	.308 Win	54	$0.82
Remington “Managed Recoil” 125gr CORE-LOKT PSP	.308 Win	125	$1.40