Weird ammo showing up

[kwb377]

Two seconds on Google told me ZQi is Zenith Quest which is made in Turkey and is apparently pretty good ammo made to NATO spec.

Why interject easily-located facts when speculation, innuendo and "scientific wild guesses" can be employed?

 

[illinoisburt]

Sounds about like our store. So, what load is used for waterfalls? Not sure I'd want to tackle them with any load, TLC warned against that.
Ain't autocorrect fun?

Maybe I should stick to the rivers and lakes that I'm used to as it's probably easier to set decoys . It was some bland Winchester steel #4 in the silver boxes.

 

[Mars5l]

I've been seeing a lot of Igman brand 308 and 5.56 especially at Rural King.

 

[Nature Boy]

Two seconds on Google told me ZQi is Zenith Quest which is made in Turkey and is apparently pretty good ammo made to NATO spec.

Robert, that wasn’t my experience with some ZQI 7.62 I purchased on a Walmart price special a few years back.

Cheap was the only thing it had going for it. The absolute worst accuracy I’ve ever experienced with commercial ammo.

 

[Speedo66]

Two brands of shotshells new to me, Sterling and MC2.

Can't find country of origin on the former, though it appears to be Italy, as is the latter.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Robert, that wasn’t my experience with some ZQI 7.62 I purchased on a Walmart price special a few years back.

Cheap was the only thing it had going for it. The absolute worst accuracy I’ve ever experienced with commercial ammo.

Same here. I was given 100 rounds that came with a gun safe. It was about 5moa from a rifle that would consistently hit a 4" plate at 400 yards with Hornady fmj.
The brass was okay but had very low capacity compared to my other brass.

 

[DustyGmt]

On Friday I got a “club member flash ammo sale” email from my local “chain LGS”.
They were advertising “ZQi ammunition” in 9mm 115 gr or 124 gr fmj persuasion for $24.98 box/50. I’ve never heard of ZQi.

All the rest of the ad was the usual suspects (Fiocchi, Aguila, Barnes, Nosler, Tulammo, Kent shotshells, etc.).

Stay safe.

I like ZQI 9mm

 

[entropy]

The pistol ammo was fine. The brass on the .223 had off center flasholes and military-thickness brass.(more so than LC) I suspect the brass is made for MG's as well a commercial loading.

 

[MAKster]

Two brands of shotshells new to me, Sterling and MC2.

Can't find country of origin on the former, though it appears to be Italy, as is the latter.

Sterling ammo is made in Turkey. I bought a lot of the buckshot from AIMSurplus recently. Worked fine but based on the milder recoil it is clearly lower powered than typical defense 00 buck.
http://www.sterling.com.tr/en/Welcome

 

[jmr40]

Within the last month I've seen a literal butt load of Winchester 5.56 ammo in bulk boxes at both Cabelas and Academy. Some in 125 round containers, others in 200 round containers. Both 62 and 55 gr are available and the prices are reasonable all things considered. $99 for 125 rounds. Yesterday the Academy in Dalton GA had more than I can ever recall seeing in one place even prior to the recent craziness.

I see 9mm occasionally and often some brands I've never heard of. But even 9mm is still not a staple on shelves yet locally.

But I'm not seeing much in the way of hunting ammo. Some 308 out there, but most if FMJ. I finally found 4 boxes of Federal 20 ga #8 shot yesterday @ $10/box. I bought 2. Beyond that I do see a few boxes of 350 Legend, but the common stuff like 30-06, 270, 30-30 are just not there.

 

[illinoisburt]

Winchester 5.56 ammo in bulk boxes at both Cabelas and Academy. Some in 125 round containers, others in 200 round containers. Both 62 and 55 gr are available and the prices are reasonable all things considered. $99 for 125 rounds

So that's $800 (with sales tax here would be $908) per 1000 of bulk 5.56x45 fmj. Not so reasonable in my book. Nice to see on shelves but more than double from 2019. I'll pass.

** most of the online bulk brass 5.56 fmj right now is around 55 cents/round which is still a bit more than I would be willing to pay