hi 308 ammo prices

Karl Townsend · 2009-11-10T15:03:07+00:00

Christmas came early this year. A DPMS Panther LR-308 is coming home in a few days.THEN, I looked at buying ammo. Holy shit, prices have went up. I got a foot locker full of .223 several years back for a song. I can see that ain't the case now.I want to start with 1000 rounds and Wolf or other off shore surplus and foreign manufacture don't interest me. Any suggestions on where and what to purchase? This would be for long range target practice.Has the obama ammo scare passed yet? In other words should I wait a few months? Can I save a bunch reloading? FWIW, I reloaded a lot of trap shot shells when I went through 250 a week shooting in competition. I find reloading to not be a pleasurable pastime.Karl

Larry Jaques 16 years ago

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:52:00 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" scrawled the following:

Talk to Ronnie Barrett. ;)

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Stormin Mormon 16 years ago

Does nitric acid smell like bleach? Been a LONG time since I smelled nitric acid.

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Carl Ijames 16 years ago

Kinda, sorta, in the way that iodine smells like bleach.

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Jim Wilkins 16 years ago

Do you have a better way to describe an unfamiliar smell in writing? Bleach, nitrogen dioxide and ozone have similar smells that are completely different from the organic solvents that might be left in the powder.

We learned to sniff chemicals by waving a hand over the unscrewed cap to expose ourselves to as little of the chemical as possible. Also to be doubly sure we labelled everything indelibly and didn't need to ID by smell, but the knowledge was very important in case of spills.

The M-16 clogging and jamming problem in Vietnam was partly caused by calcium added to the powder to neutralize the acid.

jsw

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