Did you ever wonder what half a ton of .223 ammo looks like in the back of a pickup?
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Just picked it up this morning from my favourite gun shop. Yes, that really is 20 cases of Norinco ammo. Who says money can't buy you love?
Awesome. I ordered 12 cases of 7.62x39 from Tradex last year and the shipping weight was just under 800lb. The UPS guy didn't seem impressed as he was unloading it.
Why? He isn't hauling commercially, just a private citizen driving his personal property to his home in his own vehicle.
Mark
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Must be nice to be able to afford $9000 worth of ammo. 
DJdeadlyDALEK
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With all the great SKS deals going on right now, I'm so broke, I couldn't afford ONE of those cases
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I was going to post basically the same picture, but OP beat me to it. I saved up my cash and bought 40 rounds of .223. My post was going to be titled "Did you ever wonder what a pound of 223 ammo looks like in a glove compartment?". Oh well.
I've seen 1.5 tonnes of "ammo" in the back of a duece & 1/2 a few times, back in the day... Except it was only ~100 rds.
I recall getting a phone call from the Toronto airport that there was a ton of freight to pick up. I had no idea what they were talking about. I drove to the airport to find that Sierra had shipped 50,000 bullets -air freight - to my Canadian billing address instead of trucking it my American shipping address. I declined the shipment.
Well fellas, it's started. After dropping off most of the ammo for storage, I swung by the range and let off 200 rounds. So I'm no longer the proud owner of 32,000 rounds but rather 31,800. At this rate it will be gone in no time
For those who are on the fence re: Norinco ammo, I have to say this current stuff is a big step up from the older lots showing the '94 headstamp. Those older ones seem to have a lot of off-centre flash holes, which these ones don't. Other positives are that the primers are not crimped, and the brass seems well annealed where it should be. I've also run a few spent cases through a gauge and was shocked at the neck consistency, which is remarkably good -- it's certainly not Lapua, but at least as good as what Winchester seems to be producing these days. Long story short -- these seem to be very reloadable brass. Accuracy wise, I'm seeing around 2 MOA which seems quite reasonable for bulk ammo -- certainly good enough for reasonably serious practice.
Incidentally, it's worth mentioning for those who don't know that there are limits on what can be stored in a single location. If you look in the explosives regs, it's a max of 225 kg of cartridges in a single place. Just sayin' in case there's anyone who wants to try trumping me. I just needed two buddies willing to store several cases each until the ones I kept run out. Oh, and a piece of advice -- make sure they're non-shooting buddies. I wouldn't trust anyone on this site to store it for any longer than it would take them to launch it down range
For those who are on the fence re: Norinco ammo, I have to say this current stuff is a big step up from the older lots showing the '94 headstamp. Those older ones seem to have a lot of off-centre flash holes, which these ones don't. Other positives are that the primers are not crimped, and the brass seems well annealed where it should be. I've also run a few spent cases through a gauge and was shocked at the neck consistency, which is remarkably good -- it's certainly not Lapua, but at least as good as what Winchester seems to be producing these days. Long story short -- these seem to be very reloadable brass. Accuracy wise, I'm seeing around 2 MOA which seems quite reasonable for bulk ammo -- certainly good enough for reasonably serious practice.
Incidentally, it's worth mentioning for those who don't know that there are limits on what can be stored in a single location. If you look in the explosives regs, it's a max of 225 kg of cartridges in a single place. Just sayin' in case there's anyone who wants to try trumping me. I just needed two buddies willing to store several cases each until the ones I kept run out. Oh, and a piece of advice -- make sure they're non-shooting buddies. I wouldn't trust anyone on this site to store it for any longer than it would take them to launch it down range
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That's the general idea, but I came to it rather philosophically. For the last several weeks, we've been going through an out-of-the-blue medical crisis that came nerve-wrackingly close to turning me into a widower. Fortunately, my wife seems to be slowly recovering, but for both of us it's been a heck of a wake-up call. We both work far too much, somehow getting caught up in that neverending rat race that only ends when you finally run out of time. We both know better, but it's often hard to break out of those ingrained patterns of working hard now and deferring too many of life's pleasures for "someday". But what if you don't make it to "someday"?
So we've talked about her dream of seeing the wildebeest and zebra herds migrating across the Serengeti, and of spending a few days seeing the wildlife and splendor of the Ngorongo Crater -- and are now starting to plan something for 2014. And I'm also starting to hear rumblings about a couple weeks in Polynesia somewhere a couple years after that.
As for me, I find myself thinking about which dream hunts I still need to make happen while I still can. And closer to home, I realize that I need to spend more Saturday mornings at the range rather than popping in to the office to get "caught up".
So yeah, I think it's time to actually start wearing out a few more barrels
