Hornady Custom .223 Rem 55 Grain Jacketed Soft Point – 50 Rounds (Box) 80255

Hornady Custom .223 Rem 55 grain jacketed soft point is the load people reach for when plain range fodder is not enough and a full house match round is more than the job needs. It is a fifty round box of genuinely capable ammunition at a price that does not make you flinch.

Hornady has been loading centerfire cartridges for a very long time, and the Custom line is where that experience shows up in ordinary boxes on ordinary shelves.

What Hornady Custom .223 Rem delivers

This is a 55 grain jacketed soft point loaded in brass cases, carrying the manufacturer model number 80255. The soft point is the important part, because it changes what the cartridge is good for.

A full metal jacket bullet is designed to hold together and punch through. A jacketed soft point has exposed lead at the tip, so it expands on impact and transfers energy rather than passing straight through. That makes this a working load for varmints, predators and any legal application where terminal performance matters more than pure paper punching.

It is for the shooter with a coyote problem, the rancher who keeps a .223 behind the seat, and anyone who wants a single box that will do more than make noise on a Saturday.

Features worth knowing

• 55 grain jacketed soft point bullet that expands reliably rather than drilling straight through.
• Brass cases in a fifty round box, ready for the tumbler and the press when you are done.
• Loaded to consistent velocity from lot to lot so your point of impact stays honest across seasons.
• The classic 55 grain weight that every .223 barrel twist rate on the market handles well.
• Fifty round packaging that covers a zeroing session and a hunt without opening a second box.

Specifications and what they mean in the field

Fifty rounds per box, .223 Rem chambering, 55 grain projectile, jacketed soft point construction, brass case, model 80255. That is the whole sheet, and every line on it has a practical consequence.

The 55 grain weight is the historical standard for this cartridge, which means it stabilises in everything from a 1:12 twist varmint barrel to a 1:7 AR-15. If you own more than one .223, this is the bullet weight most likely to shoot well in all of them.

Brass cases matter for two reasons. They seal the chamber cleanly under pressure, and they are worth money to a handloader. Sweep them up and they will serve four or five more lives with proper annealing and trimming.

Consistency lot to lot is the quiet feature that this Hornady Custom .223 build is really selling. A rifle zeroed with one box should stay zeroed with the next, and that predictability is worth far more than a headline velocity figure.

Practical use, care and compatibility

Any rifle chambered in .223 Remington will run Hornady Custom .223 Rem loads, and 5.56x45mm NATO chambers will accept them safely as well because the NATO chamber has more freebore, not less. Bolt guns, single shots and AR pattern rifles all handle it without fuss.

For hunting use, confirm your zero at the distance you actually shoot before the season opens. Soft points and full metal jackets rarely land in the same place, so switching loads without confirming is how good rifles get blamed for bad hits.

Store it the way you store any centerfire ammunition: cool, dry, out of the sun, ideally in a sealed can. Heat cycling and humidity are what degrade primers and powder, not the passage of time. Stock deeper by adding a case from our ammunition category while you are here.

Clean the bore normally after a range session and pay attention to copper fouling if you are shooting long strings. Hornady builds these to run in anything correctly chambered for the cartridge, and they do.

Keep a box or three of Hornady Custom .223 Rem on hand and you will always have the right answer for the rifle in the safe. This ammunition ships straight to your door wherever state and local law allows.