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Posting in this forum as I believe I have some reloads here...
My father-in-law got a mess of stuff from a guy on his death bed, and passed along the .223/5.56 ammo to me:
Probably 2/3 loose, and 1/3 on strips. Everything on the right side is green tip, and the left is not...with a few strays in each pile.
Isn't the green tip 62gr and lead core? And I'm not sure I can assume the non-green is 55gr? They're definitely different sizes:
But it also looks to me like the green tip stuff is reloaded? Isn't that what the discoloring on the brass would indicate?
And then even with the same (green tip vs non-gt), some of the length look different:
Would this probably be safe to shoot? Or at least the non-green tip?
I could even leave it in a dedicated non-suppressed ammo like (which means it might take years to shoot).
My father-in-law got a mess of stuff from a guy on his death bed, and passed along the .223/5.56 ammo to me:
Probably 2/3 loose, and 1/3 on strips. Everything on the right side is green tip, and the left is not...with a few strays in each pile.
Isn't the green tip 62gr and lead core? And I'm not sure I can assume the non-green is 55gr? They're definitely different sizes:
But it also looks to me like the green tip stuff is reloaded? Isn't that what the discoloring on the brass would indicate?
And then even with the same (green tip vs non-gt), some of the length look different:
Would this probably be safe to shoot? Or at least the non-green tip?
I could even leave it in a dedicated non-suppressed ammo like (which means it might take years to shoot).