If I were in the market for ‘factory’ ammo I’d expect it to have been purchased from a bona fide retailer and to have been supplied to you in factory sealed boxes.
Absolutely. Ditto. It would be very alarming if ammunition being sold as having been properly manufactured was produced with components sourced from a secondary, informal market. You'd think the manufacturer's insurers would spit the dummy too in the event of any accident.
Does anyone know what branding this ammunition would be sold under?
Not sure what you are implying with your comments above but I will assume it is innocuous...
I dont feel I need to explain myself but I will do so under the guise of education.
We are a "Bona Fide" retailer/manufacturer, whatever that means.
Authorised and administered by the UK Home Office and Police Scotland to produce ammunition, firearms... among other activities.
We operate automated/mechanised and single stage, metallic cartridge loading facilities.
All Factory ammo is produced in virgin unfired brass.
Custom ammo is made in virgin brass unless there is a reason not to, availibility (see above)
Any ammo being made on brass to be reused, whether it be provided by the customer or being sourced by us, is annealed using an AMP Induction annealler, sized, trimmed and checked for spec/tolerances.
We do supply ammo in Factory boxes, some we source from the manufacturers, some we produce for them for the UK market with UK markings and UK BP/CIP stamps.
We have been producing CIP Lot Approved Factory ammo for two global projectile brands we have been the UK Distributor for, for over 5 years.
Namely Fox Classic Hunter and Peregrine.
We also produce smaller volumes of custom ammo for a number of customers with everything from factory rifles, custom target rifles and highly unusual rifles
This includes a service that allows us to produce and regulate custom ammo to double rifles that were originally "regulated" for ammo that is no longer available.
Our custom ammo is more often than not tested in the customers' rifle. For both accuracy and the chamber spec (not always as it should be)
Your "Factory" ammo is made to a recipe, in brass that ranges in spec and is Lot/Batch tested for pressure, if you are lucky.
Of the millions made very few are tested.
We have a "Box of Shame" of failed "Factory" ammo that has suffered from split cases, case head separation, massive overpressure resulting in blown primers, brass flow etc.
Everything from Sako, PPU, Remington, Winchester, RWS, Hornady and beyond.
Point being you are implying that because it hasn't come from a warehouse in Texas that it is in someway "sub standard".
Please be assured it is not.
The Kynoch ammo that most DG rifles relied on was produced from a dwindling supply of brass and components. (Something that has ultimately led to their demise and closure)
Vast majority of the Kynoch ammo that we have taken in to reuse brass has already been fired mutilple times and reloaded, including some that was produced with a mixture of Boxer and Berdan primed brass!
Brass quality was sketchy at best.
If you living in a country that you cant source DG ammo in your options are also limited.
Now if we can maybe get back on track, this is a wanted post. The Forum has rules on posts that don't answer the ad....
If you have something I have asked for above, I would be delighted to entertain a discussion.
If anyone has any questions about how and what we load in our custom ammo, please feel free to drop me a line
I would be happy to elighten them.