Received the following from SG:

Dear Friend and Customer,

Our vendor is having problems with item 51729 300 RNDS .223 55GR FMJ and has
no estimated arrival date.  We have found another source for this item which
we are offering as an alternate.  It is not identical to the item you
ordered but is the closest we could find.

Alternate Features:

Item 78127  500 RDS. 223 55GR FMJ is made in Russia.  It is steel cased,
Berdan primed, non- reloadable, and non-corrosive.  Muzzle velocity is 3,241
F.P.S. with Muzzle Energy of 1,283 ft./lbs.

Differences:

Original item 51729 comes in a quantity of 300 rounds.  It is made in South
Africa, and is brass cased.  Muzzle velocity is 3,250 F.P.S. with Muzzle
Energy of 1,290 ft./lbs.

Please let us know if you would like the alternate 78127, or if you prefer
to cancel.  We can be reached at 1-800-882-2945 between 7:00am and 5:00pm
central time or feel free to e-mail us.  Thank you.

Best regards,
Customer Service Operations



The Sportsman's Guide a Catalog and Internet Company
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I figured on cancelling.
Opinions, thanks guys...
S2

Saw that coming a mile away.  Why would Sportsman's Guide be able to get the SA surplus when no one else could?

That's funny!
"we don't have any SA, want some Wolf?"

That's the understatement of the year... [ROFL2] [ROFL2] [ROFL2]

wow!! thats f#@king funny!@!@
umm sorry sir, we dont have the Mercedes you ordered, but we have this wonderful lil Le Car from france.

dunno, i jus got off the phone with SG, and ill be gettin my 2700rds around sept 22nd. I did notice on their website that the 300 and 600 were out of stock, dunno why they didnt list the 2700rds out of store (otherwise id be gettin mine). SO dunno. [:D]

try here [url]http://catalog.jgsales.com/index.php?itemnumber=5-91b[/url]

thats not the MIL-SURP SA, its SA commercial

[url]http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=44716[/url]

here is the ammo in question.

oops, wrong link out of my favs, try this instead [;)] [url]http://www.coledistributing.com/MM054.ASP?cat=New+Production+Ammo&i=&pageno=31&start=91[/url] 2nd from the bottom

This really stinks. It stinks even more if they do ship the 2700rd. battlepacks. Sort of like saying "Ooops. We figured out we could make more money by gouging for the 2700rd. pack, so we'll just cancel the smaller orders."

[pissed]

The 2700rd. pack isn't a bargain by any stretch of the imagination. Guess I'll have to scour the gunshow again for Q3131A. If I had known this was going to happen, I would've bought more at the BPS sale a few weeks ago.

Like Troy said, Everybody who looked in the ammo forum 6? months ago knew about SA being gone for good.  Even someone from South Africa came on here and said no more would be shipped here.  I was semi-lucky because once I heard that I ordered 30 packs.  Should have ordered more. [:)]

Q3131a is now the answer.  Plus it is reloadable whereas the old SA battlepack ammo wasn't.

 

[:(] didn't know that

Botach has Q3131A (Izzy M193) for $0.15 per round.  I'm getting my shipment in the next few days.

It's about the price of the SA battlepacks and much better quality (and newer) ammo.

i emailed them 3 times too see if they had it in stock and couldn't get a reply....

My rule with Botach is to do everything on the phone and make sure it's in stock.  Doing that and I've had zero problems on some pretty significant orders.

At any rate, I talked to Albi last week and he said that they had the Izzy ammo stacked up to the ceiling.  Apparently they just have a shitload of it.

I'll hopefully be getting mine today or tomorrow and will try and report back.  The M193 was $189 (S/H included) for 1200 rounds, which is actually $0.16 per round.

Keep in mind this is new production M193.  This is the same stuff that Winchester sells as Q3131A.  My current stash ammo is Q3131A and is great ammo.  I've heard that Lake City might be a tad faster, but you'd need a chrono to tell.