ADCOM M855 UAE 5.56 ammo

[BlueBayou]

A local gun store has a bunch of "ADCOM Manufacturing Ltd." "M855". It is in a yellowish-orange box, and has "AM 1258" "Made in U.A.E" on the back. the lot # is AML98M010-001

The base is stamped "AD 556 98".

Anyone know anything about this ammo or its reputation? The guy at the gunstore said that it is "South African", but the last time I checked the U.A.E. was an arab country along the Persian Gulf, lol.





I just got my first AR-15 yesterday, a Bushmaster M4 A3 and am looking into ammo now. From reading the ammo oracle over at AR15.com, it sounds like M193 is the best way to go(w M855 second), but looking around here that is hard to find and expensive. He also has Federal AE in stock and Wolf polymer black box. I see that the Wolf is not as accurate as the others though, but is not horrible. I am looking for both a range/stockpile ammo, and also a defensive ammo. This is a lot harder than deciding on everything for my AK's. I may just get some of each and try it all out.

[BlueBayou]

I know- I should have done a search first. Now I have done one and found that the ADCOM ammom is not worth messing with. Not sure what I'm going to go with now...

[Sierra]

Adcom M855 is made in the middle east, United Arab Emerates I think.

[Nelybarg]

its decent plinking ammo. i've bought around 1400 rounds of it. used around 700 or so through a carbine class. had only failure that was ammo related (the primer blew out in the chamber area).

i load all ammo onto stripper clips so i visually inspect each round that goes into my gun. out of all that i've purchased, i've found around 20 rounds that were so long as to not feed into a magazine without effort. have also found 3 rounds that had crushed/torn case necks. 1 round with a dimpled shoulder.

i'll prolly not buy it again, but it was a decent price at the time at around 3.99 a box. the store was selling wolf lacquered steel cased for the same price.

also. AML98 on the lot number indicates the year. i've read absolutely nothing but bad reviews on the 99 year. everything i used was the 98.

[ARWizzard]

I have had good luck with Guatemalan IMG M193 from AIM. I bought six cases of this surplus and it has worked flawlessly in all my AR's including four of my Bushy's. To bad they have raised the price recently. It comes 30rds to a box and 1440rds per case. I bought mine a few months ago when it was about $200 per case. You might give the Wolf M193 a try also, not the poly stuff but the brass M193 Prvi Partisan. I stay away from Adcom and Olympic and most steel case stuff. I try to always keep quality ammo on the shelf. The price of good ammo has really gone up lately. Good Luck!