PDA

View Full Version : L2A2 ammo ID?


Odd Gibbs Shooter
August 02, 2001, 23:26
Ive got a bunch of this stuff . It shoots pretty good. I dont have a clue as to who made it???

It says RG.22:8_83 on the plastic cartons of 50

Headstamp reads: RG 83 with a 'cross and a circle'....

Thanks,
OGS

[ August 10, 2001: Message edited by: EMDII ]

Mosin Guy
August 02, 2001, 23:34
That would be british manufacture ammo

EMDII
August 10, 2001, 10:13
British
1983 year-of-manufacture
NATO-spec (2750 fps +/- 10%)
L2A2: standard ball ammunition
RG: Radway Green Royal Ordnance factory in Cheshire, England