Ammo you miss.

1911, You mentioned L & Ks. I was using a Colt SAA, I had to keep torquing down lose screws, presumed that was inherent with the old gun design.

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Yep. Just part of the charm of the '73 SAA and its faithful clones. When I take one to the range, a screwdriver goes along for the ride and I cinch'em every 3rd cylinder.

I miss any real .357 magnum load,Ie. 158Gr bullet at 1,300 FPS or better. The ammo that the factories used to supply before the lawyers got involved. I also government surplus .45 ball ammo at $3.00 a box of 50 rounds. The same goes for the Canadian military 9 M/M at the same price for 50 rounds.

Well, I shoot some of this stuff. My last 100 rounds of old Winchester 130 gr. Silvertips. I love that bullet. I will die with some of them as I only shoot about 6 rounds per year.

Do they not make silver tips anymore

Turkish 8mm surplus when it was 15 cents a round. I remember when you could get 1500 rounds for $70!

Though I don't shoot it anymore I suspect Remington's Bronze Points have lost popularity.

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Remington stopped making bronze points a year or two ago.


i miss the Speer Lawman .357 ammunition they called Deputy. It has a 140 grain pentagonal hollow point bullet. Have a few boxes that i reserve for use on hogs.

One caution though. Bought ~100 surplus 8 MM on clips that looked good. Less than half went bang. Saved the bullets on the rest. Makes me suspect my stash of surplus. headstamp was mixed, but most had an S w/ star of david.

Can I vote twice? How about cheap surplus 303 British?

Hirtenberger 7.62 X 51 as well as the Australian F4 cartridge (their 7.62 NATO ball load).

I have ammo sitting in ammo cans waiting for the future, but I have no emotional attachment to any of it. A point that could be made is that I cannot replace that ammo for what I paid for it, but it will eventually get shot up and replaced.

Only been shooting about 5 years, but I really miss the .38 special 148 grain military surplus wadcutters from J&G sales. They came in a plain white box with old-school stenciling on them: "U.S. Military Match Clean-Cutting ammunition". And the brass was slightly tacky as if it had been waxed. By far the cleanest and most accurate .38 special I've ever fired, and the best part, it cost... $8 a box in 2006. What was I thinking not buying up their entire inventory?

planetmobius, I've got 2 boxes of 250 Savage dwnstrs that are silver tips, 100 gr.s Got them from my grandpa many years ago.

CCI .22 SGB rounds, I bought 5 boxes of them a couple months ago from Sportsmans Warehouse, blue boxed.

Nyclad bullets, I have 4 boxes of these in my stash, 38 spl., and 3 boxes of Super Vel .357 also.

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Talons... lol...

just because of the crud surrounding them and the fact the lies still exist today. They should have adopted Metalica's Am I Evil for a theme song...

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no sence in missing something when they just made it better and renamed it

GOOD Surplus-

.303 British- Greek HXP, South African PMP, all good reloadable boxer primed brass.

ANY 6.5x55 Swede ammo

Persian or German or Czech or Turkish 8mm Mauser especially the cupronickel bullets.

7.62x51 ammo for $99 for a thousand round crate of good stuff- Australian ADF, Portuguese FNM, British Radway Green, Spanish Santa Barbara, German Hirtenberger, South African R1M1. All gone, and all 4x that price now or more. Lithuanian GGG was great 7.62 ammo.

Indian OFV 7.62 from the 1970's in 50-cal cans, strippers and bandoleers.

Greek 30-06 HXP in strippers in spam cans. That was good stuff.

Also the Wal*Mart $5 ammo- 550-rd Federal 22's, CCI Blazer Brass 9mm.

I also miss primers for under $20/K shipped. Surplus powder for $5 a pound. Pulldown M80 147-gr 30 cal bullets for a nickle apiece.

Winchester 220 grain .308 silver tips. The hardest hitting, Elk killing factory rounds I have ever shot.

Speaking of hot .357, I have a worn and handled box of IMI of unknown age. They have been carried and been in speed loaders, but none fired, and now saved after I read they are hot. Mine are hot enough now.

czech 7.62x25 I have about 900 rds left. I'll be saving these for quite some time.

There is nothing worse than discovering a gun loves a certain factory load only to latter find out that that ammo has been discontinued.

I really miss Winchester .357mag. 180gr. Partition Golds.

PMC .38 and .44 dognut cutters

Turk 8mm, My buddy and I used to go halves on a $70.00 case(crate really)of 1440rds. Also anyone else remember the Albanian 7.62x54r in spam cans? That stuff was ridiculously accurate in my 91/58 It also threw a wicked fireball on those cold winter days up at Lytle creek firing line back in Los Angeles. Also I wish we could get back to the days of Wolf 7.62x39 for $65 - $85 a case.

Aussie F4, 7.62 Nato, 147-grain at 19 cents a round, delivered....2004, by the 800-round case.

Thank god I still have some...!

WHAT???

Some of the older rimfire cartridges like 32 RF, 38 RF, 41RF, 44 RF and maybe a few more I have not mentioned. There is a bunch of older guns chambered in rim fire that are in good condition that could be shot if the ammo was available.

There is one that I don't miss.

The Winchester 125 grain JHP .38 Supers, made before the introduction of the Silvertip.

Using a revolver bullet in the .38 Super, with a heavy crimp at that, was not the brightest thing Winchester ever did.

It was ammo that I don't miss, though it was easy to miss when using it.

Some of that wonderful, absolutely reliable .22 we could buy at Western Auto. Winchester-Western or Peters. Sigh.