Post by Big Joe on Jan 23, 2021 22:19:20 GMT -5
I have been at my Drs office now twice this week and it paid off in a weird way. One of my cartridge collecting buds uses him too. Well yesterday I was in waiting room and he showed up so we had to find a corner and talk much to the chagrin of our wives LOL. Anyways we got to talking and he was looking for some 11mm Egyptian ammo for a guy. I told him I had plenty of the really old stuff and could not guarantee it would even go bang. Well I now own 1 and 1/2 30cal ammo boxes full of orange tipped 5.56 ammo. He had separated it out of a huge lot her has in hiding. So my plan now is to pull them down keep brass and powder and toss the bullets in a fire just to reclaim what little lead in them.
I picked them up today along with a bag of 6.8 SPC ammo - not to many, the bag says 136 rounds but count not important just the fact I have them is. I also wrangled him out of a .270 cal Forster bullet puller.. I know it will make marks on the bullets but I am not keeping them anyway. Got home and dug thru my die draw and found my VINTAGE forster supper-fast bullet puller for 22cal.. set it up in the older rockcrusher and gave it a short test run.. If you dont push things it works great and the big press has a longer handle than normal so it breaks them down pretty easy.
So by my guess I have around 1600 5.56 carts that will be pulled down and reloaded to fit our needs. We still will not be using many for practice but we will not just stop shooting either. Back when things we nicer I didnt buy our practice bullets by the box - got them by the pound at the Sierra plants public store. Shoot I bought their hunting 2nds same way, never found any serious flaws and if we had some questionable they became practice ammo. I didnt acquire near enough powders but we can make to if need be - have beaucoup pull down powders to get us by.
I picked them up today along with a bag of 6.8 SPC ammo - not to many, the bag says 136 rounds but count not important just the fact I have them is. I also wrangled him out of a .270 cal Forster bullet puller.. I know it will make marks on the bullets but I am not keeping them anyway. Got home and dug thru my die draw and found my VINTAGE forster supper-fast bullet puller for 22cal.. set it up in the older rockcrusher and gave it a short test run.. If you dont push things it works great and the big press has a longer handle than normal so it breaks them down pretty easy.
So by my guess I have around 1600 5.56 carts that will be pulled down and reloaded to fit our needs. We still will not be using many for practice but we will not just stop shooting either. Back when things we nicer I didnt buy our practice bullets by the box - got them by the pound at the Sierra plants public store. Shoot I bought their hunting 2nds same way, never found any serious flaws and if we had some questionable they became practice ammo. I didnt acquire near enough powders but we can make to if need be - have beaucoup pull down powders to get us by.