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Posted: 5/5/2003 7:03:39 PM EDT
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I bought a case of PMC a couple of years ago, 55 gr., R.O. Korea, Headstamp 12 o'clock 'PMC' and 6 o'clock '223 Rem', primers are sealed. I thought it was 'PMP' until the other day when I opened the ammo cans I had them. I was cleaning out the 'bunker'. I will burn this at the range but haven't shot any of it yet. How good is it? How hot? Is all PMC made in Korea? |
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Depending on precisely when it was made, it can be quite a bit hotter than the PMC that is coming into the country from SouthAfrica. Older PMC 55grain stuff is actually to M193 spec and quite a bit hot. Just dirty... Still quite accurate though and pretty darned reliable. I wish I could still get the stuff. |
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PMC made up to '98 was loaded to full M193 specs, and was great ammo. The only thing bad about it at all was the especially large muzzle flash. Then Klinton suspended PMC's import license over allegations that the Koreans were using equipment GIVEN to them by the US to manufacture the ammo with, then selling the product back to the US. In fact, the Koreans had BOUGHT the equipment, and had every right to do what they were doing. After a little over a year, the issue was straightened out, and PMC began to come in again at the end of '99. But the new stuff was loaded down to SAAMI .223 specs. Then, around 2000, some PMC-branded ammo began showing up that had been subcontracted to South Africa (the Denel Group) that was loaded even lighter. I suspect that PMC brokered this deal during the time when they couldn't import ROK-made ammo into the US, and by the time that issue was resolved, they already had the South African deal in place. I haven't seen any more PMC from South Africa in a while, so they probably dissolved that deal after the first run. -Troy |
| Thanks guys. Looking back, this was bought in the summer or fall of 1997, so it's the 'older' stuff from what you're saying. Q3131A shoots well in my rifles and I'm putting that away for long term SHTF. When you don't know anything about ammo, you end up 'collecting' all sorts of brands. |
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