History of the M118 Ammunition and Mexican Match
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History of the M118 Ammunition
The Mexican Match
https://www.theboxotruth.com/educational-zone-177-mexican-match-ammunition/
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I shot a lot of hi power rifle back in the 80’s and 90’s in the Virginia, Carolinas area. At the service matches we shot M852 until leg day then they would issue M118 white box for record firing. So you had good dope on M852 all week then got that crap on for leg day, never did understand that. We learned to dump the issued rds in a pile,it was all the same lot, and use a run out indicator to measure TIR on the bullets. Sorting them by best to worst, i.e. best 20 for 600 yd slow fire, worst for 200 yr off hand the rest for 200/300 rapid. We called M118 cracker jack ammo,there’s a surprise in every box! I have seen bullets seated so badly you could see it was canted. Given the time from issue to record fire measuring TIR was about all we could do, being issue you couldn’t do anything else. I did shoot Mexican match of my own making, that was pretty popular when 118 was plentiful. I shifted over to the m16 a few years before AMU set the world on fire with it. Shooting the 16 you shot issue M 193 all week and leg days. That’s a whole other story. Good article thanks Johnny brought back good days.