On 2010-11-20, Tim Wescott wrote:
On 11/19/2010 03:29 PM, Wes wrote:
Jim wrote:

When I was a kid, the telephone company installed
a new dial switching center and junked the manual
system. Every relay, tube, patch panel and power
supply was smashed before it was auctioned off to
the scrapmonger.

And our government takes perfectly good ammo that passed a certain age and sells it to
companies that destroy it by separating it bullet, powerer, case, they also have to kill
the primer.

Then I buy it from that company that bought it and put it back together with a new primer
after swaging the primer pocket since military ammo tends to have crimped in pockets.

[ ... ]

What do you want to bet that at some time in the past some enterprising
businessman got the bright idea of buying surplus ammo and selling it
back to the government as new?

Well ... military ammo normally has the year of manufacture
encoded in the headstamp, so that would put paid to that trick. :-) If
someone can forge the datestamp to a more recent year undetectably (e.g.
turning a "68" to an "88" -- and in sufficient quantities to make it
worth while, they have *earned* their money. That is not an easy thing
to do -- and the old ammo would have to have dates which could be
plausibly forged to a later date.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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