Ammo Alert Armscor for $19.99

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Last week I bought one 50 round box of ARMSCOR .30 carbine ammo at Rural King for $19.99.

I had not seen new .30 carbine ammo in a store for years! My local gun shop now has new unprimed .30 carbine brass, but it costs $24.00, for 50 empty cartridge cases.

I was happy and looking forward to a Range session with my National Postal Meter carbine, (post WW2 rebuild, with Marlin barrel, SA M2 birch stock, imported years ago by Blue Sky).

Happiness changed, when I saw this thread, on Tuesday.

When I inspected the ARMSCOR rounds, I could see that the bullet ogive was different than other .30 carbine projectiles, that I have.

When I let my carbine bolt chamber rounds from a magazine, the ARMSCOR bullets made contact with the chamber Leade.
Some bullets were moved slightly rearward into the cartridge-case.

As an experiment, I ran 25 rounds of the ARMSCOR ammo into a .30 carbine Bullet-Seating Die to adjust the rounds to a 1.620-inch overall length.

This solution seems to have worked successfully with my equipment.
I had a pleasant Range Session, today, at 50 yards with no malfunctions and good accuracy.

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