The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

Well that's one way of keeping the ammo manufacturers in business, maybe they should do sale or return ha ha

I was on a website yesterday and they were selling some ammo dated 1912, pre first world war big game rounds.

maybe we should fire more at the enemy and not the sand dunes,....

WOW tell them myself and a bunch of others I know would be more then happy to buy it.
Export it over here.

If it goes PFTT! We will gladly pull it down for componets.

I understand where they are coming from in relation to this. If a soldier has to use his weapon to safe himself or another, you want to make sure that everything is as far as possible, working towards his success. Lets say ammo gets issued two, three or four times over before it's actually used. It fails. Was that because of the treatment of the ammo before the time it was needed? No one can say but you'll want to take that out of the equation.

Agreed, a mis-fire on the range is an incovenience, when confronted by an irate nutter it is something completely different.

9mm, 5.56mm and 7.62mm?? FFS, i'll take the lot!! The way ammo prices are going it might be financially viable to get a flight to Afghan to bring it back myself! :roll: :lol:

Imagin if the forces did ship it back and sell it to us and most of the ammo was fine but there was some dodgey rounds that caused damage and injurey to a pearson can you think of the lawsuit and compo the mod would have to pay.



:flag5: zzzzom

I don't believe that the rounds can be sold to the shooting fraternity as the primer manufacturers (IF American) forbid the use of their primers outside of the miitary! Most Berdan primers they (Radway Green) use are of American origin. The small rifle primers used to be Hirtenberger but I don't know of the current manufacturer.

I have a mate who's an ammunition technician in the RLC. He spent 6 months at Kineton throwing tens of thousands of perfectly good rounds into the incinerators there.

I don't understand why it can't be reissued for training use only or sold off, myself. What can happen to ammunition that'll cause it to blow up in somebody's face, if it isn't immediately obvious visually?

I don't disagree with what is being done because it is perfectly understandable (ex armourer), but I can also remember at the time of the first gulf war the MOD buying back ex mil ammo that had been sold off. Apparently there was a severe shortage of 9mm ammunition the powers that be had decided that we would never have a need for large quantities of 9mm again as we had gone over to the 5.56mm. It just goes to show how desperate we were at the time.