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lanceriley
11-03-08, 22:23
what did they use to paint the tip of the m855 ammo? I know the question is worthless to anyone even to shooting. but im just curious. if you paint a bullet tip. won't it affect flight? or paint getting in the grooves?
Robb Jensen
11-04-08, 06:30
what did they use to paint the tip of the m855 ammo? I know the question is worthless to anyone even to shooting. but im just curious. if you paint a bullet tip. won't it affect flight? or paint getting in the grooves?

The paint is used to differentiate M855 from M193 (55gr ball).
Green paint is M855 because at the time of the M855 adoption time some of the US Military personnel were also using M193 in rifles which had 1x12 twist barrels. You can safely fire M855 in 1x12 barrels but it won't stabilize for very far at all, it becomes unstable in under 100yds. US Military arms using M855 have 1x7 twist barrels but M855 will stabilized in 1x8, 1x9 and most 1x10 twist barrels.

M193 ball (no paint)
M855 ball (green paint)
M196 tracer (red paint)
M856 tracer (orange paint)
markm
11-04-08, 07:33
The paint is often chipped off on ammo. It won't really get in the "grooves". And I doubt anything can make the SS109 any less accurate than it already is. :p
lanceriley
11-04-08, 08:09
would it hurt if I painted the tips of my loaded ammo? :D you know just to differentiate which is which.
markm
11-04-08, 08:13
would it hurt if I painted the tips of my loaded ammo? :D you know just to differentiate which is which.

I would use permanent marker. You can use it on the tip of the bullet. I use it to mark my brass so I know how many times it's been loaded.
lanceriley
11-04-08, 08:38
mark your brass? but when you tumble the brass.... the markers are erased. where do you mark the brass??
markm
11-04-08, 08:48
mark your brass? but when you tumble the brass.... the markers are erased. where do you mark the brass??

Some of it tumbles off. But I don't care at that point. It's marked so when It gets mixed up at the range, I can easily segregate it back out before I tumble it.

Then I can mark it again after resizing and cleaning.