I use solid Copper bullets (Barnes)and am quite happy with them.
Posted on 05/04/2011 12:21:58 PM PDT by smokingfrog
ABERDEEN, Md - The Army will be demonstrating new "green" ammunition at the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
The military began providing the lead-free round last June to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. It replaces ammunition used since the early 1980s.
A live-fire demonstration will be held Wednesday morning at the post. Soldiers will fire the new and old rounds, as well as a third type, to compare the performance of all three on identical targets.
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What Bullshiite.
I’ll bet the nose is a tungsten penetrator with a solid copper body.
Eat my copper-jacketed, bismuth-tin alloy, steel penetrator green bullets, SUCKER!
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****The military began providing the lead-free round last June to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. ****
What is the matter with these idiots! Are they afraid some Afghan Vulture is going to get lead poisoning from eating a dead Taliban?
I use solid Copper bullets (Barnes)and am quite happy with them.
Does this mean that there will now be a huge amount of surplus .223 ammo available for the civilian market? Barnes makes a solid copper bullet that I plan to test on feral hogs this fall.
I’ve turned solid bronze bullets here at work and reloaded them in my big Weatherby. They work just great and you’ll never see your slug again inside any beast found in North America, no matter what direction or bone you hit.
Solid copper is good for hunting but I would guess too expensive for the military. They probably need the steel penetrator to shoot through walls and for combatants wearing body armor.
Try the Federal BlackCloud ammo for the shotgun.
See post #29, I’ve never used solid copper, but solid brass without a hollow-point is like the energizer bunny...
This will lead to a ban on Lead ammunition. The “Green” ammunition will be designated for Military Use Only.
“Eat Green ammunition and die!!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it....
You beat me to it! Now if they took the nasty, hard little raisins from Skinner’s Raisin Bran and filled 12 gauge shotshells, maybe they’d have something.
The composition of the two-piece may lead to interesting terminal effects. As it yaws in the body, it will split into two large pieces with separate wound channels. Those pieces are almost guaranteed to be larger than the current M885 fragments (tungsten penetrator and lead).
And greater penetration is what the M855 lacks.
Do they know you’re doing that at work?
Other than “pull downs” and contract overruns, I doubt we’ll see ANY surplus ammo from this. Since we’ve got two “shooting wars” going on, it only makes sense to finish off all the old stuff in combat and training while replenishing the bunkers with the new stuff.
Copper’s not cheap any more. Is there a core charge that you can get back by returning the used bullets?
Hehehe, my name is on the building and I own the CNC lathe I turned them on.
Only my wife has the authority to reprimand me on my time wasting done here. :)
“Eat my copper-jacketed, bismuth-tin alloy, steel penetrator green bullets, SUCKER!”
I’m stealing that! I’ll use that a lot here at Fort Benning.
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