Thanks for the link, was just wondering why it would be annealed if brand new.visible iris just means that you can see where the case was annealed. Most military ammo is not polished after loading. Heres a link.
http://le.atk.com/pdf/XM193.pdf
Most all of that L.C. XM ammo is either over run (not likely) or eject or reject for some reason, its not bad ammo, its just that particular lot of ammo did not meet Mil Spec for some reason.
Thanks for the link, was just wondering why it would be annealed if brand new.
Also, correct me if I am wrong, but I dont think the DOD is buying much (any?) M193 stuff, and mostly going with M855, and other non-M193 stuff. Being a type of ammo they don't purchase any more, all Federal 55gr FMJ would be XM193 for that reason.
Is there a reason that military and dangerous game ammo isn't polished?