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Offline DGrig

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What would you do with this brass?
« on: April 13, 2009, 09:53:28 AM »
My neighbor has 1000 rnds of ammo marked:

7.62 mm NATO BALL M80 mfg in India

It shoot awful (14" 'groups') at 200 yards.

But I am interested in the reloadability of the brass.  Any thoughts?
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2009, 09:55:31 AM »
Use it to plink with then reload OR pull bullets,dump powder and reload.
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2009, 09:59:51 AM »
my thought was to load it for my 308 Savage 10fp w/Hornady FMJ bulk bullets and IMR4895.  So there are no issues with this old military brass?  I am guessing it was manufactured in the mid 90's. 
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2009, 01:57:25 PM »
You could always weigh them just to see how consistent the weight is, and how much they deviate from a Remington, Winchester or other case.

Myself, I'd just load them.....
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2009, 03:26:02 PM »
I heard horror stories about the India 308.  Blowing up rifles etc.  I have never shot any and don't intend to, so I have no experience with it, but I'd do a google search on it and decide for yourself. 
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2009, 04:38:45 PM »
Are you sure the brass is reloadable boxer primed?  You might want to pull some bullets and check the flash holes.

I've fired many thousands of rounds of that stuff in military machine guns, and the best thing to be said about it is that it goes "BANG!"

India was never a member of NATO, and their service rifle copies of the FN FAL were never produced under license, so you sorta WONDER where they got the ammunition specifications to produce their 7.62x51 "NATO" ammunition.
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 04:45:47 PM »
If it's boxer primed, I'd load and shoot the stuff. By the way, ammo manufactured in the 90s is NOT OLD!!  LOL
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Re: What would you do with this brass?
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2009, 05:12:16 PM »
I thought the brass was horrible and many of the primer holes "offcenter" a tad and a pain in the hind end.  You want mine?    (NO I am not gonna go digging in the old coffee cans of scrap brass looking for them....but that is where they are, the scrap brass pile)

I have about 15-20 that centereed well and have been reloaded a couple times now.  Most were too much work screwing around with.

Personally, if your buddy purchased at the right time...pull for bullet and powder.  Or you could move from 200 yds to 20 yds, that should tighten the group a little ;)
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