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Posted: 9/16/2004 8:40:01 PM EDT
[#1]
Ammo come in bandoleers in stripper clips for 5.56
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Posted: 9/16/2004 8:40:19 PM EDT
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There was a trial of preloaded magazines back about 20 or so years ago... some may remember the "zipper" wind up mags? But the general answer is, ammo in bulk... load your own.
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Posted: 9/16/2004 8:42:33 PM EDT
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Most of the time ammo was packed in an ammo can in 20 round boxes.
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Posted: 9/16/2004 8:52:03 PM EDT
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Yep, which sucks because you have to remove them all to get your 5-1 tracers going. Three tracers on the bottom, 5-1 first round tracer. Half mags like that, one mag all ball, 2 mags all tracer. |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:13:29 AM EDT
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+1 |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:16:55 AM EDT
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Ammo comes packed in wooden crates, inside the crates are metal ammo cans, which inside the cans is the ammo packed either in boxes (pistol ammo ie, 38, 9mm, 45; rifle ammo 7.62 Match, 5.56 tracer, blanks etc), on stripper clips (5.56, 7.62) inside bandoleers or belted (5.56, 7.62 or .50 cal). The only magazines that are loaded are for the 200 rd belts in a so called plastic box (magazine) for the M249 SAW.
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:18:50 AM EDT
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+2 I never saw ammo in stripper clips except a few times during training. |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:44:23 AM EDT
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M855 usually in 4 pocket bandos, 3 10 round chargers to a cardboard sleeve, one sleeve per pocket. Load the mag, pull the string and insert the loaded mags into the bando or your web gear.
Last I saw, M856 came in 20 round cardboard boxes or linked for the 249. Carried loaded LBE and bandos, crates of ammo in vehicles, mags loaded during lulls. Extensive use of chargers and loaders. |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:46:15 AM EDT
[#9]
Mine came on 100rd belts.
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:50:18 AM EDT
[#10]
All I've ever gotten in 20 rd boxes was blanks. |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 3:54:32 AM EDT
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I love the smell of freshly opened ammo in the morning. Really !!
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Posted: 9/17/2004 5:46:33 AM EDT
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Maybe it's changed, but back in the late 80s, early 90s, in the National Guard, ROTC, IOBC and with the 25th Infantry Division, we got our live ammo AND our blanks in 20 round boxes. The only difference was that the live ammo came in stripper clips IN the boxes. |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 5:53:28 AM EDT
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What are these 'zipper mags' of which you speak? Pics? |
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Posted: 9/17/2004 5:59:13 AM EDT
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i have never seen live ammo in boxes other than LR-118. not saying it isnt out there. just that i havent seen it
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Posted: 9/17/2004 7:03:13 AM EDT
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With regard to 5.56 ball, it has always (in my experience) been wood crate-steel ammo can-cloth bandoleer-stripper clip, with, of course, one clip guide and one large safety pin per bandoleer.
GI ball ammo is a little bit over packaged, IMHO. |
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