Description
Frontier Cartridge from Hornady is a working shooter’s ammunition line — purpose-built for volume range use, law enforcement training, and practical drills where you need rounds that feed and function consistently without paying a premium for hunting or self-defense construction. The 110-grain full metal jacket projectile does what FMJ is designed to do: it holds its shape through the bore and downrange, producing repeatable point of impact so you can diagnose your fundamentals rather than your ammunition.
Brass cases make a meaningful difference in a training context. Unlike steel-cased alternatives, brass expands and contracts in a way that is friendlier to chamber dimensions across a wide range of semi-automatic rifles, and the cases are reloadable for handloaders who want to stretch their cost-per-round further. Military-grade boxer primers are used throughout, which contributes to consistent ignition even when ammunition sits in a bag or a car all day before a range session.
Hornady loads Frontier Cartridge using the same quality-control infrastructure that underpins their other product lines, which means dimensional uniformity from round to round. For a caliber like 6.8 Remington SPC, where the platform is often a precision-built AR variant with tight feeding tolerances, that consistency matters more than it might with a looser-tolerance design. The 20-round box format suits shooters who want to work through structured drills rather than burn through bulk ammunition without purpose, and case quantities are available for those who train at higher volume.




