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Posted: 8/2/2008 7:56:30 PM EDT
 Greentip bullet and base   Orange Tip  And Finally:  Silver or gRay dipped projectile  Someone gave be a big bag of this stuff. Mixed. Anyway, what is it? |
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The top looks like your standard SS109/m855 rounds, looks factory based on the primers. Orange looks like some sort of varmint rounds -- the tips look plastic, looks like reloads due to the primer being in different colors. I'm not familiar with any soft tips in that color maybe hornady? As for the last WCC, I have no clue, looks like gray paint, that's all. |
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The green tips are M855 for sure The orange plastic tips are reloads utilizing Nosler Ballistic Tip bullets. The Ballistic tip projectiles come in multiple bullet weights so you'd have to pull one and weigh it to find out which one. The rounds in the last photo are probably moly-coated 55gr bullets. If the coating rubs off on your fingers, then it is moly. Otherwise, it could just be a patina that developed from improper handling/storage. I have seen rounds of loose packed surplus ammo where the entire round looked like that. |
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+ 1 on the Win. Looks to be M193 that's been sitting for a while and either been handled a lot or was picked up on a range after it's been laying out for a while. The orange tip look to be reloads also. A couple of the cases (93) look like they have had the crimp reamed out from around the primer and the primers are also different colors. |
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Let me tell y'all about that Orange tipamo. It chrono'd at 2784 out of a 9.25" barrel. Did y'all getthat clearly? 2,784 fps out of a 9.25" barrel. It also fractured 5 of 5 cases at the neck. Each neck had multiple vertical fractures, two cases had 4 vertical fractures around the neck andreaching down into the shoulder area! Got to trash it. 2,784 fps is smokin' out of a 9.25" barrel. Anyone disagree? |
| The Orange tip is a Nosler Ballistic Tip Bullet (Hornady V-Max is a red tip). Judging by the primers, I am going to go out on a limb and say they are Ultramax Re-manufactured loads. These are very bad news. I have 500 rounds of that same crap lying around that was given to me. I have a friend that KB'ed his AR with the same load, so Ultramax fixed his AR, and then sent him 500 rounds free, which he does not want to shoot. I pulled the bullets (which they cannalured (not normal on a NBT)), and used the brass. all of the brass was mixed LC, crimped reamed off and, If I recall correctly, mixed primers. |
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Wow, I think it's surprising that your gun held the pressure that it would take to produce those velocities. Pull the bullets on the rounds if you can use them, or give them to someone who can use them and let them pull em. Also, if you do decide to just toss them in the garbage, you should crush the sides of the casings slightly with a pair of pliers so they won't chamber. Otherwise some fool might see them in the trash or at the landfill and try to shoot or sell them later. It sounds rediculous, I know, but I had a friend who threw away a bunch of casings that were at the end of their case-life, i.e. they were all on the verge of case/head seperation. He set them by the curb with the garbage and someone picked them up before the trashman got there. |
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