Introduced in January 2012, this versatile spherical rifle propellant incorporates in its formula CFE, Copper Fouling Eraser. This ingredient, originally used in military propellant, greatly deters copper fouling. It contributes to longer periods of top accuracy with less barrel cleaning time. Being a spherical powder, metering is superbly accurate. CFE 223 yields top velocities in many cartridges such as the 204 Ruger, 223 Remington/5.56mm NATO, 22-250 Remington and the 308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO, plus many, many more. Match, Varmint and AR shooters will love this one!
Now that the war is slowing down, they are probably trying to figure out what to do with the 10 or 12 trainloads they have left over.
Good point. There should be some pretty attractive bargains showing up on the market in the next couple of years due to a slackening of demand for small arms ammunition by the military.
But the claim that a powder can reduce copper fouling is so spurious as to totally lack credibility and reflects poorly on the distributor on behalf of which the claim is made. It seems as if both Leupold and Hodgdon, who otherwise both market excellent products, have allowed themselves to be victimized by clueless ad copy writers who graduated from the Rupert Murdoch school of jounalistic ethics.
Posts: 13266 | Location: Henly, TX, USA | Registered: 04 April 2001
Originally posted by 7mmfreak: How slow has the war become?
In terms of the amount of small arms ammunition expended on a daily basis, considerably slower than a couple of years ago. The military has also largely resupplied its stocks of small arms ammunition, thus freeing up production capacity to feed into the commercial (sporting) market. Although metal prices are still high (as are some industrial chemicals), making the fundamental costs of ammunition components somewhat higher than they might otherwise be, the more abundant supply can be expected to have a moderating effect on prices.
Translation, in case you haven't figured it out: The last couple of years have been a bad time to buy ammunition and components as they were bringing a scarcity premium; that has changed and will continue to change due to loosened supplies -- and to lessened demand from idiot hoarders who always buy when prices are high and find themselves grossly oversupplied when prices ease.
Posts: 13266 | Location: Henly, TX, USA | Registered: 04 April 2001
have allowed themselves to be victimized by clueless ad copy writers who graduated from the Rupert Murdoch school of jounalistic ethics our modern university system.
Fixed it for you a bit.
The real benefit of the new coated powders is they produces less heat, but all the propellant gasses. This helps keep machine gun barrels cool, and greatly extends their barrel life, especially on something like the SAW. Since few of us are worried about the barrel life of our SAW's, they had to find another benfit to try and sell this new stuff to us, the shooting public. I'm not sure if it will cause less fowling, but still, it won't hurt the ol AR any.
Posts: 3034 | Location: Colorado | Registered: 01 July 2010
I know components have been hard to get and/or expensive. I'd gladly spend the money to shoot here at home where the war is slow. I'll do all my shooting there again soon.
