Let me start by saying:
This forum is like a small town. Just about all the regular posters here have sent me personal greetings, and this place is like Grandma's house to me.
I don't collect the single inert rounds with unique headstamps that classic cartridge collectors accumulate, I like to test the 9x18 ammo that's been imported or made here in the states for U.S. shooters. My tests are for shooters. After posting my need for Chinese military ammo for years on Gunboards, Trent up and finds a few boxes.
Coincidentally, at the same time, a guy on Gunboards wrote me and offered to sell me some at $15/box (over $1/round with shipping!). Trent, instead of thinking he should maybe save this relatively rare round, writes me and offers it. After I beat him up over the price, I received 2 boxes and a couple of spares. All he had.
Did I mention I'm grateful?
The complete test is on Gunboards where I keep an updated ammo sticky:
http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=15925
Chinese "Military" 95-gr FMJ (12 rounds tested)
These rounds have the military marking: "81" is a manufacturing plant code; "83" is the year it was made.
Manufacturer: Unknown factory, China
Headstamp: 81 83
Cartridge Case: Steel case, berdan primed, corrosive? (probably) primer
Bullet: 93.7 and 95.2-gr (2 measured), steel-jacketed copper-coated with concave exposed-lead base (may be steel cored)
Magnetic: Cartridge case and bullet jacket are magnetic
OAL (ins)
Range: 0.971 – 0.977
Avg: 0.974
Velocity: (fps)
Range: 914 - 999
Avg: 965
ES: 85
SD: 25
Chinese "Military" ammo - and Huge Thanks to Trent
Chinese "Military" ammo - and Huge Thanks to Trent
Well don't you think you had something to do with the attitude around here as well.
Shoot we all think of you as being grandma...so why not??
Hope you're dry, warm and got dog food
Shoot we all think of you as being grandma...so why not??
Hope you're dry, warm and got dog food
Chinese "Military" ammo - and Huge Thanks to Trent
don't mention it,
If I still had it, I probably would have made it go boom, so why not let someone else let it go boom If it means anything special when they make it go boom.
oh and are weights usually that inconsistent between individual bullets of am I giving China too much credit?
If I still had it, I probably would have made it go boom, so why not let someone else let it go boom If it means anything special when they make it go boom.
oh and are weights usually that inconsistent between individual bullets of am I giving China too much credit?