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Posted: 1/26/2008 8:09:44 AM EDT
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Hi I'm new to the AR-15 Just got one of those CMMG bargin Midlengths and looking around for ammo A local store has some PMC its in a brown box says 5.56mm ball M193 on it and is headstamped PS 81 How is this ammo. Its $6.70 / box of 20 remanufactured or new? |
That or someone traded in some stash for a new gun. Yup I recall that stuff for $1.99 a box when I was in high school and my buddy had a mini 14 and we'd blast a lot of that stuff. I can remember him bitching when it and norinco went to 2.25 and then 2.99. O, to have a time machine. We used to prefer the PMC in the camo boxes to the norinco. I guess we were in the vanguard of tacticoolness. 
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Yeah it could be old stock the gun shop is trying to rotate out from a personal stash or trade. PMC has been making 223 ammo since early 80's. That coincides with the 1981 head stamp meaning probably 26 year old ammo. PMC does sell newly manufactured 223 in a slightly different brown box. Some of the police agencies here use it for training ammo and it runs well. Do a search for PMC 223 and you will see images of the current brown box they come in as it could be the new stuff. Even if it is old, it may still work fine though. Full-Auto |
I remember buying it in high school too for about $2.19 per box. They came in a heavy wood crate and was labeled PMC Poongsan Metal Company. I guess they tried later to make the company sound more western sounding and later called it Precision Made Cartridges. Full-Auto |
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