I came across this picture. Markings on the box appear to have some military lineage. Who used these ammo? Most likely made by Hornady.
Mystery Ammo: Who used them?
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Thanks. Another interesting feature is the tip color
The tips almost look like those Nosler Noveske 308 Win/7.62 NATO Ballistic Glow Tips, they put out
QuietTexan
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Hornady has made different tip colors before, the Z-Max zombie stupidity from a decade ago comes to mind.
QuietTexan
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If it's .mil the tip color could be as simple as load ID. Same thought as putting green paint on M885 and red on M856. Might make sense to specifically not make it red so it's not assumed to be a tracer?
As far as being yellow it might just have been something they could stick in for testing purposes to distinguish from another load. To my knowledge yellow isn't a common color on small arms ammunition like red, green, and black are. 5.56 has been painted some pretty random ways for testing over the years.
As far as being yellow it might just have been something they could stick in for testing purposes to distinguish from another load. To my knowledge yellow isn't a common color on small arms ammunition like red, green, and black are. 5.56 has been painted some pretty random ways for testing over the years.
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It could be but the only small arms ammo I knew of with yellow tips was tracer ammo. My guess was since they liked to operate under the KISS principle they would want to avoid using yellow for small arms round that weren't tracers. It is possible that it's for some kind of military testing.
It looks like it's clear to me not yellow
M1A1ABRAMS
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Yeah you can see the HP
