FireInCairo
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I bought some Russian steel cased ammo in a local transaction last week. I didn't inspect the rounds, as I assumed they were typical off the shelf stock. When I got them home, I opened up a package and noticed something odd.
They're .223 full metal jacket rounds. On almost half of the rounds there were inconsistencies and irregularities around the area where the bullet is placed in the casing.
So if you look at a bullet before it's put into a case, it has that little ribbed area that goes just inside the casing. Parts of the copper jacketing on some of the bullets flaked back and were sticking outside of the case inversely, while the rest of the jacketing was snug inside the case. The bullets are solidly in the case, but about a third to a half of all the rounds had these irregularities.
I took a small flathead screwdriver and went through the rounds an scraped off the little flakes of the jacketing off, and they came off easily enough. But, some of them still have the tiniest bits of jacketing still kinda wedged back out of the casing. Just the tiniest bit.
Could these rounds damage a M&P 15 sport's barrel bore? I suppose at the very least it may cause very poor marksmanship.
I haven't shot any of this stuff through the gun, and I haven't contacted the seller again. I didn't take pictures, either, sorry. I hope I described it well enough that perhaps someone has seen these kinds of irregularities and will know what I mean.
They're .223 full metal jacket rounds. On almost half of the rounds there were inconsistencies and irregularities around the area where the bullet is placed in the casing.
So if you look at a bullet before it's put into a case, it has that little ribbed area that goes just inside the casing. Parts of the copper jacketing on some of the bullets flaked back and were sticking outside of the case inversely, while the rest of the jacketing was snug inside the case. The bullets are solidly in the case, but about a third to a half of all the rounds had these irregularities.
I took a small flathead screwdriver and went through the rounds an scraped off the little flakes of the jacketing off, and they came off easily enough. But, some of them still have the tiniest bits of jacketing still kinda wedged back out of the casing. Just the tiniest bit.
Could these rounds damage a M&P 15 sport's barrel bore? I suppose at the very least it may cause very poor marksmanship.
I haven't shot any of this stuff through the gun, and I haven't contacted the seller again. I didn't take pictures, either, sorry. I hope I described it well enough that perhaps someone has seen these kinds of irregularities and will know what I mean.