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Posted: 12/19/2011 4:57:34 PM EDT
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Bought a mix bag of .223 off of a friend. Trying to identify this round. He said it was HotShot, everything I Googled on HotShot comes up as brass cased from Romania/Serbia. Also saw mention of Korea in a few of the Google hits. This has a semi bright steel with what for all I know could be a Korean headstamp. Forgive me, I know no better.
Can anyone identify it for me? Main reason is I'm hoping it's non corrosive. I don't know if there has ever really been corrosive .223 made but want to try and cover my bases if it is. Thanks. http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k492/1down-5up/DSC05182.jpg http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k492/1down-5up/DSC05190.jpg |
It looks like some of the ammo my local fun shop sells under the name of RWS. It is zinc coated steel cased (if it is the same). It is fairly accurate and not as dirty as wolf military classic. If it is indeed the same stuff, it is my plinking / non match grade training ammo. I used to have a few thousand rounds until a buddy talked me into putting it all on his boat. Then the boat sank 
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Thanks guys, looks like a combination of all of the above.
It's definitely the JSC Barnaul headstamp (thanks for the link Toad_77), the Silver Bear has a different headstamp but is produced by Barnaul also. Only MFS headstamp I've found online was literally those letters stamped into the case. I'll go with it being some variant on Silver Bear. ...and going from details herein> http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=268 , I was naive in assuming even newer manufacture ComBloc produced ammo had a chance of being corrosive. Once again, thanks all. 
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Quoted: Only MFS headstamp I've found online was literally those letters stamped into the case. I'll go with it being some variant on Silver Bear. There are RUAG lots that don't have the "MFS" HS that are RUAG (early) ammo. It is speculation (but I think its true) that the Hungary plant used components from the barnaul plants to start production runs until they could get the specific "MFS" HS on the cases. I have seen a few boxes this way and there was a youtube video with a guy talking about it. (they have the same dolphin mark thingy) I think that when this was introduced and had the RUAG/RWS boxes, many gunshops sold it as super accurate RWS sniper/target ammo becuase RUAG imports both, and people got duped. Ie like wolf imports cheap steel but also has "target" 22lr ammo. ETA RUAG(precision ammunition) is the importer that imports/makes MFS as well a RWS RUAG Ammotec currently has approximately 1,600 employees worldwide at production sites in Germany, Switzerland(RWS), Hungary(MFS) and Sweden, and operates sales companies in Austria, the United Kingdom, Belgium and France. RUAG Ammotec GmbH of Furth, Germany, has established a U.S. subsidiary to distribute its small-caliber ammunition, as well as frangible rounds produced by Precision Ammunition, the company has announced. After looking at the packing I'm going with SB. |
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