With the Lake City stuff no longer being made available to the public from Federal, I have been thinking why some other ammo company doesn't simply make and sell loads to mil-specs.
As many people as there is who would love a new source for mil-spec M193 and M855, why doesn't some ammo maker such as Federal, Winchester, Remington, PMC, etc start making such a load? It wouldn't be that much more expensive to produce than the cheap FMJ that all of them put out anyway. And it sure would be better stuff than aging surplus that we know nothing about. What's the odds of some company making such a load and should we start contacting ammo companies with this request? Perhaps they think we have no interest in having bullets, velocities, and sealed ammo that meet mil-specs. Who knows? Maybe there is a good civilian market for this ammo.
---Charging Handle