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Posted: 2/17/2011 5:08:49 AM EST

BMG

Others:

Anyone know where I could find the following:
dim tracer
M21 - headlight tracer
XM1022 - green bullet
MK257 - purple tip
apei - yellow/silver tip
416 barrett
408 cheytac

Also looking for a 14.5mm round.
Leads would be appreciated. Please PM me, do not reply here.

Posted: 2/17/2011 5:27:24 AM EST

[#1]

Very cool.

I need to start collecting different rounds.

Posted: 2/17/2011 5:44:16 AM EST

[#2]

Quoted:
Very cool.

I need to start collecting different rounds.

There are a couple members here that have insane collections. One has something like a thousand different headstamp/types. I'm mostly interested in just types.

Posted: 2/18/2011 6:18:30 AM EST

[#3]

14.5mm gets posted on strum pretty often. Once or so a month I see it come up. Not cheap, but I'd guess you already knew that.

Posted: 2/18/2011 8:29:01 PM EST

[#4]

Anyone know where I could find the following:
dim tracer
M21 - headlight tracer
XM1022 - green bullet
MK257 - purple tip
apei - yellow/silver tip
416 barrett
408 cheytac

Also looking for a 14.5mm round.

14.5 Show up on Gunbroker and Auction Arms. Also I see them at most of the cartridge shows and larger gun shows.

The Dim Tracer is Pink Tip, "M17 (Dim) Tracer" is the designation. It wasn't accepted into service beyond a limited run lot. The Mk257 took its place in the .50 dim tracer line.

the M21 Headlight Tracer is WW2 vintage, and red tip, just like the M1, so virtually indistinguishable from M1 unless you have a box lable.

XM1022-Kinda sorta. There was more than one design in contention, the WCC version ended up on the market, when they didn't win the contract, so it's theoretically available. The version that won hasn't been released to service yet.

Mk257 is the API (Dim) Tracer and is a Purple/White tip, but easily confused with M20 APIT (Red/White tip). The only diff is the "Purple" is a deep red coloration. You have to have something to compare it to, to realize what it is, unless you have a can with the markings to ID it.

APEI-This is the FN competition for the Mk211, and hasn't gained much acceptance. You'd probably have to attend a European Cartridge show to hope to uncover one.

416 Barrett & 408 Cheytac are available from Ammo1 on Gunbroker, also the ammunition shows.

Posted: 2/19/2011 7:49:17 AM EST

[#5]

You guys get me a list and I will shop around for you at the Wanamaker gun show. Theres always some neat stuff there. I dont mind keeping an open eye.

All I ask is that you email me a list with a good discription of what Im looken for as well as an aprox price per each. Im not in it to make a damn thing, just figure I can help since I will be there anyway.

http://www.tulsaarmsshow.com/

Posted: 2/19/2011 8:15:22 AM EST

[#6]

If you want the same bullet as the XM1022 you can find it here http://www.treadstoneenterprises.com/Barnes_Bullets_50_caliber_750_Grain_Hollow_Point_p/tti%20bullets%2050%20cal%20750%20hp.htm these are the same bullets from the contract that Keith was talking about.

Here's a dim tracer for you http://buy.auctionarms.com/8025683/50-bmg-tracer-rare

Posted: 2/19/2011 8:49:33 AM EST

[#7]

Jester,
Should've added, if you need one of the Anthena rounds (XM1022 winner) I have a box. I'm always looking for stuff to add to the collection, if you have something (50 BMG) you want to trade for it let me know. A few that I'm looking for are any of the plastic cased rounds, Dardick (tround), German DAG training tracer and lastly would be the hardest to find SSB round, check out this link http://buy.auctionarms.com/7762473/50bmg-squeezebore-salvo-project––5 it's the 6th round over from the left. I keep looking but that round is impossible to find. The guy that has the round won't let it go and if he does it will be for a rediculous price as you can tell from his auctions.

Posted: 2/19/2011 3:00:50 PM EST

[#8]

I'll add a couple close ups.

Posted: 2/19/2011 6:58:36 PM EST

[#9]

The one your looken for that looks like a tampon in a brass case I have run across on more than one occasion.

Im tellin ya the tulsa show has all sorts of shit man.

Posted: 2/19/2011 7:51:31 PM EST

[#10]

Awsome

Posted: 2/19/2011 8:15:59 PM EST

[#11]

I lugged around a single 12.7mm M903 SLAP round on my OTV when i was in Iraq (even though we did not have any .50 cals); kind of as a lucky charm.

Posted: 2/20/2011 4:07:27 AM EST

[#12]

Fister,
If you find the one that I'm looking for at teh Tulsa show, pick it up and I'll repay you. Please be sure it's the one that I specified as I have the others, it needs to be the 6th one in the first picture. There's other pics of it in the link.

Posted: 2/20/2011 7:09:18 AM EST

[#13]

No problem. Your after the solid tampon with no tooth in the brass case. Im tracking.

So I am to BOLO for that and how many 14.5mm? Do you guys just want one or one of every type I can dig up?

EMAIL me with your bolo requests please and what I should expect to pay so I can be prepared if theres any sticker shock. I'm a cheap bastard afterall . . .

Posted: 2/20/2011 9:16:23 AM EST

[#14]

Quoted:
Jester,
Should've added, if you need one of the Anthena rounds (XM1022 winner) I have a box. I'm always looking for stuff to add to the collection, if you have something (50 BMG) you want to trade for it let me know. A few that I'm looking for are any of the plastic cased rounds, Dardick (tround), German DAG training tracer and lastly would be the hardest to find SSB round, check out this link http://buy.auctionarms.com/7762473/50bmg-squeezebore-salvo-project––5 it's the 6th round over from the left. I keep looking but that round is impossible to find. The guy that has the round won't let it go and if he does it will be for a rediculous price as you can tell from his auctions.

50_Shooter,

I have a few plastics I don't need, plain and red tip. Headstamp is BF 88 - DR

Posted: 2/20/2011 10:05:10 AM EST

[#15]

Are they the blue training rounds or are they like the plastic cased one 2nd from the right in the first picture? I have the blue training rounds, was looking for the other kind.

Posted: 2/20/2011 10:14:25 AM EST

[#16]

Quoted:
Are they the blue training rounds or are they like the plastic cased one 2nd from the right in the first picture? I have the blue training rounds, was looking for the other kind.

My bad... Blue training... take care! - DR

Posted: 2/20/2011 8:37:04 PM EST

[#17]

For the record, regarding Jestertoo's request:

The Dim tracer referenced in 50_shooter's auction link is the early UK Night (Dim) tracer from WW2, not what I think Jestertoo's after. He's seeking the modern US Pink tip Dim tracer, I think.

The early Winchester design for the XM1022 project, the one that didn't get accepted, appears to be in 50_shooter's .50 line up photo, 5th from the left. (You'd have to ask 50_shooter if that's an authentic XM1022, or the commercial design that's only similar in concept.)

The Anthena round that 50_shooter references is in his photo line up 4th from left. The XM1022 design that was finally accepted is BASED on this design, but is significantly different. So the Anthena design isn't the XM1022.

(It really gets confusing trying to talk about some of these designs)

Posted: 2/21/2011 5:47:10 AM EST

[#18]

Quoted:
If you want the same bullet as the XM1022 you can find it here http://www.treadstoneenterprises.com/Barnes_Bullets_50_caliber_750_Grain_Hollow_Point_p/tti%20bullets%2050%20cal%20750%20hp.htm these are the same bullets from the contract that Keith was talking about.

Here's a dim tracer for you http://buy.auctionarms.com/8025683/50-bmg-tracer-rare

Yikes, $50 for the tracer.

ETA: looking at his stuff, that guy has a bunch but it's all insanely priced..

Posted: 2/21/2011 6:13:45 AM EST

[#19]

hahaha

.17 incenerator round

Posted: 2/21/2011 3:47:16 PM EST

[#20]

Keith,
The Winchester XM1022 round is real, I got it from you a couple years back.

I traded you some of the Barrett ammo made by CBC for it or another 50 BMG round, that should remind you who this is. I wanted to talk to you and see what you had in your collection that you have extras of and wanted to sell. I got the Anthena ammo from you also and pointed you in the direction of that .50 round from Saudi Arabia (?) that had the crossed sabers on it.

Shawn