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Don't have any idea if this has anything to do with it, but the ammo pictured was the same ammo that was surplused in the US 10-15 years ago. Some people had issues with that particular ammo in their AR's. The reasons I read about ...and perhaps the 63 grain bullet had something to do with the fact that that particular ammuntion was produced with the British SA80 weapon system in mind. The SA80 was the issued rifle to British Forces at that time....it still may be but with revisions. The SA80 gas system required a totally different gas impulse than the M16. Perhaps the 63 grain weight had something to do with the SA80 performance. If I recall, AR's with rifle length gas systems were more prone to have issues with RG SS109.
My rifles back in those days were all mid length gassed. I was shooting 14.5 & 16" bbls and my weapons were Colt, Spikes, LMT and RRA...I never had an issue with the Radway. Some people did.
I've got no idea if the 63grain projectile had anything to do with it, but it's not a typo.
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Sir:
One of the reasons I commented earlier about this discussion being about Semantics is this:
Companies like Radway Green, Lake City etc are using a SS109/M855 bullet. Those designations (ie SS109) refer to a specified bullet design and manufacture, which among other things is it weighs by spec 61.7grains.
(which is usually listed as 62 grains).
A 63 grain bullet isn't a SS109 Bullet. Just like a tracer bullet isn't a SS109 but instead a L110.
So at some point the markings of the can shown got mixed up, it's one or the other, it can't be both...............
Just like is it a 223 or 5.56 load ......?
But it doesn't matter anyways which is correct, since the variance of the SS109 bullet is easily about 2 grains.
And no, the company importing this ammo didn't pull all the bullets, sort them by weight and then reseat them.
It's a typo, nothing more.
Now the issue with the SA80's had nothing to do with the bullet, it was the powder, pressures and the gas system.
Here, from this site in 2006:
https://www.ar15.com/forums/ar-15/Radway_Green_Specifications___Please_pin__then_maybe_less_threads_/16-281487/