AR Bros,
A friend and I purchased 10k from J&G numerous years ago to shoot through one
of his belt fed toys. He died of cancer a few years ago and I ended up with about
a case of the Indian left. Year before last I decided to try some through the HK91.
I had read a blog on some other site pertaining to blow ups by several others
who had used some of the Indian ammo in various weapons.
The first 2 rounds went bang and the third round jammed into the barrel and that
was that until I got home an extricated the round. Upon examining the round I found
the base of the brass would not fit in the shell holder made for the .308 winchester.
Just to see what was what I decided to pull the bullets on 20 rounds and measure
the powder, bullets and brass. To my complete dismay, I found a variance of
about 5 grains of powder between the 20 rounds, one of those testers would not
fit in the shell holder as the base was way too large.
I decided to pull all of the remaining bullets from the case I had and 'remanufacture"
the ammo.
All of the brass got small base resized (40-50 had bunk brass-ie: would not fit in
the shell holder) dumped the primers and saved the bullets and powder. I re-
primed all with winchester large rifle primers and going on a 'mean' of the powder
charges, remanufactured some testers for the HK.
I have had some good results doing the remanufacturing (only about 150 rounds
so far), but atleast now I KNOW what the ammo is.
Hope this helps,
Art