AR increased firepower

[enfield]

 

Two 30rd mags taped together, side-by-side, with a cut-off pencil taped 3" from the bottom on one mag.

 

 

 

RH mag inserted in rifle

 

 

 

LH mag inserted in rifle

 

 

 

Will give faster mag changes while not adversely affecting prone fire.  Spare taped mags can be hooked over your belt.  Courtesy of Matt Bracken

[TMF]

Looks like someone dipped that ammo in green paint. Green tip doesn't look like that.

[enfield]

Mine does.  Maybe you haven't seen it all?   :D

 

It's S&B ss109.

 

Edited February 7, 2013 by enfield

[TMF]

Mine does.  Maybe you haven't seen it all?   :D
 
It's S&B ss109.
 

Okay, I've never seen that before. I've only been familiar with the US issue 855 ball with a green tip... a slightly different hue and never the whole tip of the round. Just wanted to make sure someone didnt try to rip you off. I've seen stuff at gun shows before being sold as "green tip" that was obviously just dipped in green paint.

[mcurrier]

I have some of those (mags), but mine are connected more like end-to-end, not side-by side.

 

ss109 is the 855 replacement.

[TMF]

 
ss109 is the 855 replacement.

For whom? The US Army doesn't get its ammo made in the Czech Republic, and ammo is still marked M855 on the crates everywhere I see it.

[Garufa]

SS109 is the bullet used in M855 rounds.

[Will H]

Think if we emailed those pics to Morgan he would deport himself maybe have an infarction?  

 

 

 

:yuck:

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Yeh, telling Piers it's part of a "green initiative". :D

[mcurrier]

SS109 is the bullet used in M855 rounds.

 

Dis' be what I meant to say.

[TMF]

SS109 is the bullet used in M855 rounds.

So the US Army buys ammo made in the Czech Republic? News to me. I've fired close to half a million rounds of issued M855 and it didn't look like those.

[Garufa]

To further confuse you the SS109 is actually a Belgian design.  ;)

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I didn't know that one. My latest green tips are reloads without the paint. I've seen some varying green tips. Isn't the military version the one

that uses just a little paint on the tip?

[TMF]

To further confuse you the SS109 is actually a Belgian design. ;)

Okay, now I'm tracking. M855 is just the NATO terminology or something. I remember when we had Brit ammo their stuff was the same but marked different. What I was referring to was US Army issued 855 which is A059 as I know it, and the green tip is marked differently than the stuff the Europeans manufacture.

Of course, I've never seen any country mark the from the bullet tip all the way to the casing, and that threw me off big time. Edited February 7, 2013 by TMF

[mcurrier]

Heard this from a military buddy, whom I'm now waiting for a call back to clarify.  I may have muddled up the terms and/or what he was telling me about ss109 vs m855.  I'll find out soon and get back.

 

 

(dang spelling!)

Edited February 7, 2013 by mcurrier

[Dolomite_supafly]

When I was in country we had some Serbian M855 show up. It looked like the standard green tip stuff except it had all kinds of problems. When we first started seeing problems we said range only ammo. Then we found out it was so miserable we didn;t even use it for the range. We sent it with an EOD guy to through it on the "pile".

 

In the first picture it looks like one it an open tip design.

 

I will say that I have seen a dealer who painted ammo to resemble green tip. It was during the last craze.

 

Dolomite

[mcurrier]

My spazz!  Too many 'S's' involved, I have a lot of numbers and such in my head.

 

He was telling me about SOST ammo (has two S's in it!).

 

Something along these lines - http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/

 

 

(see what I mean...wrong link!)

Edited February 7, 2013 by mcurrier

[TMF]

Heard this from a military buddy, whom I'm now waiting for a call back to clarify. I may have muddled up the terms and/or what he was telling me about ss109 vs m855. I'll find out soon and get back.


(dang spelling!)

The Army uses A059, which is US green tip M855. M855 is the NATO standard, so all those make believe militaries in NATO make the same stuff, and it is suppose to be to the same standard. The Army started fielding M855A1 in Astan sometime last year. I don't know what the dodic is on it thought. Apparently it is more stable in flight and penetrates better at distance, or so says the folks at Aberdeen. Edited February 8, 2013 by TMF

[MattCary]

Someone has been reading Matthew Brackens' essays.  :usa:

 

I've been planning on trying this with some GI mags myself.