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- From: petekunz@iiic.ethz.ch (Peter John Kunz)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Sacramento Armory price on 7.62X39 ammo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.154033.20385@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:15:12 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- In article <1993Jan27.032543.11400@bbxrbk> bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler) writes:
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- ###The Sacramento Armory price ($99 per case) for 7.62X39 (East German,
- ###non-corrosive) posted to the net was for dealers. The normal price is
- ###$139 per case.
- ##
- ##is this the 1400 case? if so, beware that this is short range ammo, meant
- ##for a max of 100 meters. tracer is also available (at least here) at a
- ##couple $$$ more.
- #
- #I'm not sure what "short range" ammo would be (practice? plastic
- #bullet?) but the advertisment reads "1985 Manf. Non-corrosive. Steel
- #case, steel core, ready for use in all 7.62x39 mm ... especially
- #accurate in sks rifles". This ammo is in 1480 round cases, in
- #"original german issue packing".
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- well, it seems this is exactly what we get here at about $200.
- the short range part is from teh gunsmith. he says the ammo is marked
- 'kurzbahn' which in my translation is short range. i guess what you would
- call bore drop is acceptable to 100m and then dramatically gets worse.
- kurzbahn max range is 100m, whereas i have shot aks at 300m with other ammo.
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- #As for tracer - for some reason a real premium is placed on tracer in
- #the USA. I've seen most tracer sold in units of 10 rounds at
- #something like $.50 to $1.00/round - up to $10.95/pack of 10 rounds.
- #I've never seen it sold in case lots at a small markup over regular
- #ball ammo.
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- another reason for another visit :-)
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- cu
- -pete
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