nelamvr6
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Here are some pics of my Ed Brown Molon Labe:
So I opened up a box of the Winchester 9mm NATO stuff and wow.. the brass was visibly very dirty, and some of the bullets/copper were dark brown and discolored. I've heard that Winchester stuff is dirty, but I always thought that it was in regards to the powder/residue after shooting, not the brass itself.. is the out of the ordinary or typical?
Here's the stuff I normally shoot (Federal 115gr range/target):
Here's the "new" stuff (Winchester 124gr NATO):
It's not recycled or reloaded brass. It's just not polished. Polishing brass adds cost. Costs that, to a military, aren't acceptable. Ammo intended for use by the military is never polished, whether it be Federal Lake City or Winchester or whatever. What you have is ammo intended for the military and sold to the consumer market as ovverrun. It gets to the point that you'll occasionally find a round of Lake City 5.56 that is dented.
Consumer ammo, on the other hand, is polished. If it weren't pretty much everyone would have had the same reaction as you.
Be careful what you shoot the Nato rounds out of. They are comparable to the +P rounds. You don't even want to shoot them out of a High Power.