So today I wandered into Wholesale Sports in Calgary looking for .22 ammo. They didn't have much of that, but they had a large variety of cased 7.62x39 for pretty good prices [under .30 cents per round].
What particularly caught my eye was some Barnaul non-corrosive ammo. red and green box, 20 rounds per. The jackets on them _looked_ like copper, but I didn't have a magnet on me to test them, so I asked at the counter and was told that they were copper jacket, lead core. So - I bought a few boxes to shoot up the hill at TSE, where steel core/jacket ammo is banned [too hard on the backstop apparently].
I got the ammo home and tested it....yup, magnet sticks like epoxy, so there's steel in there somewhere [not just the casing].
I'm only a little bummed [sigh] and I'll let them know, for whatever good it might do.... Buyer beware.
What particularly caught my eye was some Barnaul non-corrosive ammo. red and green box, 20 rounds per. The jackets on them _looked_ like copper, but I didn't have a magnet on me to test them, so I asked at the counter and was told that they were copper jacket, lead core. So - I bought a few boxes to shoot up the hill at TSE, where steel core/jacket ammo is banned [too hard on the backstop apparently].
I got the ammo home and tested it....yup, magnet sticks like epoxy, so there's steel in there somewhere [not just the casing].
I'm only a little bummed [sigh] and I'll let them know, for whatever good it might do.... Buyer beware.
