Posted on 12/18/2016 8:54:07 AM PST by dynachrome
As gun sales have skyrocketed over the past 19 months, ammunition sales have also surged, with “17,850 tons” of imported ammunition being sold in the past 12 months. That is nearly 18,000 tons of ammo in a year’s time and approximately “2,865 tons of bullets” that were imported in November alone.
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In the late 90s, you could get nice wooden crates of 1000 rounds of Austrian made Hirtenberger NATO spec 7.62x51, Boxer primed (so reloadable). Inside the crate the ammo was in 20 round boxes in nice heavy rubbery plastic 200 round battle packs (so 10 boxes) with handles.
Typical price at the time for the crate: $175
< sob, sniff>
I wish I had bought 100,000 rounds or more as an investment.
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“I’ve noticed that some domestic mfg are making steel cased ammo now.”
I saw some Hornady Soft-Point Steel-Cased Match .223 yesterday and with that polymer coating the stuff looked awesome. Price is right and the stuff is supposed to be very accurate.
Gonna try it when the Spring comes.
I have some. Have read it burns dirty but shoot very well.
It is the HOTtest 22 rimfire ammo made, by a mile.
FWIW, I try too avoid any *madeinMexico* products.
HPR. I like their hollows.
I love Makarovs. Underrated pistol. After all, Russians... Reeeee!
hmm. I see I have 126 days for December in the date of my post. Should be 12-16-16. need more coffee!
I’m not a big fan of Russian ammo (Wolf, Tula, etc.). In my experience the cartridges have a coat of lacquer that can gum up your weapon. Also, their casings seem to be “unfriendly” to many modern weapons that have tight tolerances. However, they’re not bad in commie weapons that have tolerances you can drive a Buick through.
I think they have a factory in TX now?
WPA is polymer coated. Golden Tiger is lacquer coated. Both do well in my Saiga, but after 3 or 4 mags at the range and the gun gets hot I get like an oily film on my glasses with the Golden Tiger. I don’t know if it is heated lacquer blowing out or some very fine lube on the cases.
I ran several thousand rounds of WPA in my RRA AR15 with nary a problem and then I got this one jam with the case in the chamber that was *very* difficult to get out. Since brass cased ammo had come back down in price I sold the rest of the steel.
18,000 tons seems a conservative estimate to me. I bought a couple hundred pounds myself, while most of what I buy is domestic product, mostly components.
I like PMC’s battle packs of 5.56X45 62GR M855 on stripper clips. They store nicely, load well, and shoot decently. That, and sealed tins of Ruski steel stuff in 5.56x45 Nato, 7.62x52 Nato, and 7.62x54R store well and shoot better than not having lots of ammo when one needs it.
That’s just for the stash. I load my own on everything for shooting save rimfire and the Mosin/Nagant.
Guilty.
I’m building an Hungarian AK underfolder this weekend and she’ll need to be fed for the next year or 10 plus her AKM sisters and AK74 little sisters. And then there are Mosins and VEPR 54Rs to feed too.
I asked Santa for a few tons of ammo.
Good old Wolf ammo!
Check out Lapua. Match grade ammo from Denmark / Finland.
How is the quality?
is it corrosive?
Brass?
A lot of it isn't milsurp. Much is high quality, such as Eley in .22, Baschieri & Pellagri for shotgun clays games, etc... The shells I shoot in Sporting Clays are from Italy, and that is about 50 flats a year at 25 lbs a case. My rifle and pistol ammo, especially for Cowboy is US made though.
https://www.natchezss.com/ammunition/handgun-ammo.html
I haven’t fired Wolf ammo in about 15 years, and I know back then that it gummed up the Bushmaster.
As for Tula ammo, it’s cheap, in every respect. My guns just don’t get along with those steel casings.
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