I'm sorry , but I had to share this.....

(Wisdom from another website.. )
"M193F is the most accurate non reloaded M193 i have ever shot!
F stands for frozen, having to do with the way the rounds are manufactured
in order to make them more accurate."



Followed by my response....

WTH..... I am going to take that as a total joke........ Otherwise that is beyond a doubt the most foolish statement I have ever read on this forum.



And then, the comeback......


Do your research and stop looking foolish!

The Federal XM193F ammunition uses cryo treated bullets.

The "F" stands for "Frozen", and the treatment is used to modify the molecular structure of the bullet cores. If you were to dissect one of the "Non-F" bullets and look at it under an electron spectrograph, you would see how the cannelure has impacted the sub-strata of the projectile's core, inducing eddies and swirls that decrease the uniformity from one bullet to the next. Chilling the bullets to -400 deg. F reshapes the crystalline lattice into a much more consistent pattern. "


Where do people come up with this stuff ??

Again, I had to share... Mods feel free to move this or shut it down. ... but I couldn't resist sharing.

Might want to point him to this page on Federal's website: http://www.federalpremium.com/resources/xm193.aspx

Wow, that takes the cake.  Usually someone that sounds intelligent knows a little something.  But in this case, he has been seriously misinformed and borders on "nutcase".

This is when you get his FB & then post the facts on it & make them look like a complete tool to everyone they know.... Just saying.....

Yeah , some of the other guys have posted that.
We, as in the other "doubters" have asked for links to the "F" = Cyro-treated XM193F bullets.

that guy has an imagination.. to say the least

Another month before we have frozen 193...I'll let you know that first -20 below day if they make a difference...

What drives someone to come up with something like that. That story is rich with detail not a pull it out of your ass gun show tale.
 

Well, I do know "X" stands for experimental.

M... munitions? Manufacture? OK.. Xperimental Munition...............

DA FUQ

I'm impressed by his ability to make shit up!

Man, just imagine if Federal would moly coat those bullets! XM193FM.

Hmmm, sounds like a radio station..

"All BS, all the time!"

Wow just wow!  Should of asked how old he is ?  Cause he obvious hasn't completed grade school yet!   Way to many video games running around in his head! If that little tid bit came out watching a video game you know they think it's Gods word!

You're correct that the military uses the "X" prefix to denote "experimental", but in the case of the Federal ammo I think they just use the X to differentiate the ammo that hits the streets from the govt. contract stuff.
For example, an over run (or a lot that fails for whatever reason} of military M193 that gets sold commercially becomes XM193, and they add the suffixes F, J, etc. to indicate the different packaging types.
If their ammo makes the grade and passes all govt. testing it then becomes M193, M855, etc.
If not, we end up with it as "XM-whatever".

I found the post you're referring to....that guy has been registered there for more than six years and has over 7,000 posts!
You'd think he would have picked up some basic knowledge from those guys long before now.

I think the military ammo has more QC steps during the manufacturing process than the "X" ammo does. I don't believe the "X" means that lot of ammo had failed some post-production quality test other than maybe a scan for surface blems.

Do share. I want to see this man's intelligence first hand.

I thought the F stood for fast.

No no... I just realized X mean ex and in ex wife. It's an ammo the military doesn't use as a mail battle round, so it's an ex-round.

X stands for declassified.
That's some high speed ammo ya got there.

We've strayed well out of the realm of tech here. Although the stupidity of others is always entertaining.