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Posted: 2/17/2007 6:54:56 PM EDT
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I attended a local auction today and picked up some 5.56 ammo. I got 1900 rounds of Q3131 for $455 and 900 rounds of PMC for $190. The Q3131 was head stamped WCC 89 and the PMC was PS 81. I guess it is older stuff but it still looks good and the boxes looked good. I got a full unopened case of the Q3131. A friend and I split it. Do you guys think we did OK on the price? The average was about .23 cents per round. BTW, what is the deal with 5mm rim fire ammo? I had never heard of it and they had 23 boxes of it and it brought $60 a box! The guy that bid it off took all 23 boxes! |
5mm was a Remington chambering. I had an acquaintance that owned a 5mm rifle, but never shot it due to the cost of the ammo. Here's a link that discusses some of the history of the 5mm. |
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I think that is quite expensive for an auction. The ammo is almost 20 years old now. I know ammo lasts a long time, but still. If it were Q3131A, I think it would have been a good deal. I have not heard any specific dates for bad batches of Q3131, but there seems to be a few out there. |
Zhukov, thanks for the link. It was very informative. They sold a 5mm rifle too. The guy that bought it bought the ammo.  VAPORTRAIL, I have no idea. The lot numbers on the Q3131 are CH32 and CL91. Does anyone else know? ar15gnocchi, I was willing to go up to .25 cents per round. I know that is expensive to a lot of you but I can't seem to find brass cased 5.56 any cheaper. XM193 is about .33 cents locally after sales tax. I just got my first AR in December and I am trying to stock up a little. 
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| Not a highjack of the thread, but I just bought some .308 at bargain prices. A local newspaper had an ad I answered. I got 17 boxes of Federal GMM and Black Hills 168 grain match *Plus* 300 rounds of Aussie surplus-including a box of 4 bandoliers with the box still sealed from the armory. There were also five boxes of soft point hunting ammo. That's 740 rounds of prime stuff for $150-less then $0.21 a round!! With the 650 rounds of Hirtenberger I recently aquired, I'm a happy boy! |
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