Just picked up 50 rounds of L/C Long Range brass $29.39 a pack Mil primer crimpes removed says already prepped but gonna full length resize anyway for my rifle. I weighed each round on my digital scale each one comes in between 175.6 and 176.1 grains. just wanted to know if this is a good price because I can get more. The head stamp is LC 07 LR. Also why does the LC match brass have the grooves around the lower quarter of the case?
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NuJudge
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The knurling near the head of the case was supposed to be both a tactile and visual cue that the ammo was originally not intended for combat.
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The 7.62x51 M118 LR brass does not have a primer crimp, so there was nothing to remove. Also, there is no knurling on the brass; that was M852 brass. $.60 a piece is MUCH too much to pay for this brass. For that kind of money, you can buy Lapua brass which is much better brass.
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Little over 20 years ago I bought a 5 gallon plastic pail of once fired 72 LC 7.62x51 NM brass for 25 bucks and still have them. No crimped primers and some of the best brass have ever used, my 18" bbl rifle loves them with 168 grn HP BT over 38 grn of IMR-4895.
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The brass with the knurling was loaded with 168 gr HP bullets. Since HP bullets are prohibited in combat, the knurling was intended to be a visual reminder that that ammo was not allowed for combat use. Nujudge was spot-on.
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That would be M852 brass. It was made in the eighties and early nineties when we considered any hollowpoint bullet to be contrary to the Hague Convention rules, which we followed but never signed. The knurling was a visual and tactile reminder that it was not to be used for combat purposes. However, in the mid-nineties, we ruled that the Sierra MatchKing's hollowpoint bullets were not "designed" to expand (and rarely did), and the hollowpoint was merely a result of inserting the lead core from the front instead of the rear as on FMJ bullets. The new LC M118 LR used the then new Sierra 175gr MatchKing bullet, which replaced the old 174gr FMJBT match bullet which was never really all that accurate. LC M118 LR remains the ammo used by all 7.62x51 sniper rifles to this day.
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The U.S. did not sign the Hague Accords of 1899 that mainly delt with the humain treatment of prisoners of war & civilians caught up in the conflect. It also banned the use of poison gas.
The U.S. did sign the Hague Accords of 1907 that delt with the Rules of Land Warfare, including bullets that caused "needless pain & suffering".
This time around, poison gas was not included. Mainly because Germany was probably planning on using it in WWI, and didn't want England shooting back at them with dum-dum bullets!
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The U.S. did sign the Hague Accords of 1907 that delt with the Rules of Land Warfare, including bullets that caused "needless pain & suffering".
This time around, poison gas was not included. Mainly because Germany was probably planning on using it in WWI, and didn't want England shooting back at them with dum-dum bullets!
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Below is a link to an article describing what was dealt with in the Hague Accords, and how it applies to the bullets used by the U.S. Armed Forces.
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http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html
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http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html
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