http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/2009/06/12/american-tactical-imports-announces-new-ammunition-line/ Guns Holsters and Gear provides comprehensive news & reviews on firearms, gun gear and holsters Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/2009/06/12/american-tactical-imports-announces-new-ammunition-line/#comment-4389 Ernie Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:15:27 +0000 http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/?p=1227#comment-4389 I purchased one case of the 5.56 NATO. Had gone to the range a few times and put lead down range, but not in significant numbers as today. Had a total of three failures to extract, case head rim had been ripped off on two, through one, and as mentioned above. Out of service until a cleaning rod was available to save the day. These three were all with in a total of 60 rounds, or two boxes. Tends to be kind of obnoxious. Hesitant on using the rest. I purchased one case of the 5.56 NATO. Had gone to the range a few times and put lead down range, but not in significant numbers as today. Had a total of three failures to extract, case head rim had been ripped off on two, through one, and as mentioned above. Out of service until a cleaning rod was available to save the day. These three were all with in a total of 60 rounds, or two boxes. Tends to be kind of obnoxious. Hesitant on using the rest.

]]> http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/2009/06/12/american-tactical-imports-announces-new-ammunition-line/#comment-3942 Alan Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:16:47 +0000 http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/?p=1227#comment-3942 I bought two cases of the ATI distributed Turkish MKE 7.62 NATO (1980 rounds) and one case of the 5.56 NATO. The 5.56 functioned well. However, the 7.62 did not. Out of a 30 round sample... EVERY single round failed. All but two rounds would would feed and eject but not cycle the action sufficiently to chamber a new round. The case rim on each round was pulled partially through by the extractor. The two remaining rounds failed to extract and the case head rim on both was ripped off, taking the rifle out of action till a cleaning rod could be borrowed from the range house. The rounds were fired out of a stock Rock River LAR-08 which performed perfectly with an assortment of other brands of ammo. The consensus is that the brass is over annealed, consequently the cases are soft and over expand and stick in the chamber, the case heads are insufficiently work hardened and cannot take the stress of extraction. Lot No: 8-1/2008. This kind of general failure tends to imply that the published factory testing standards are hogwash! I bought two cases of the ATI distributed Turkish MKE 7.62 NATO (1980 rounds) and one case of the 5.56 NATO. The 5.56 functioned well. However, the 7.62 did not. Out of a 30 round sample… EVERY single round failed. All but two rounds would would feed and eject but not cycle the action sufficiently to chamber a new round. The case rim on each round was pulled partially through by the extractor. The two remaining rounds failed to extract and the case head rim on both was ripped off, taking the rifle out of action till a cleaning rod could be borrowed from the range house. The rounds were fired out of a stock Rock River LAR-08 which performed perfectly with an assortment of other brands of ammo. The consensus is that the brass is over annealed, consequently the cases are soft and over expand and stick in the chamber, the case heads are insufficiently work hardened and cannot take the stress of extraction. Lot No: 8-1/2008. This kind of general failure tends to imply that the published factory testing standards are hogwash!

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