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How is .308 Radway Green ammo?

phxtravis
unfortinately that is all I know about it, also what about .308 Malaysian?

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  • nononsense
    From our own pages:

    http://forums.forthehunt.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=76754

    Also:

    "The can says L2A2 7.62 Nato. Labels say 4-88 RG, so I think this ammo was made in Radway Green ammo factory in April 88. Bullet weight is 9.50 gramms, something like 147 grains. Bullet has a slight boattail and is crimped quite heavily to the case. Brass has the Nato cross and the cases are bredan primed, so cases are practically nonrelaodable. Powder weighted 2.82 gramms/round.

    I tried to find out what is the supposed muzzle velocity of this ammo and what is the B.C. More or less all sources told that 7.62 Nato has a bullet weighing anything between 9.3 to 9.5 gramms and muzzle velocity out of G3, FAL, GPMG etc varied between 820 and 840 meters per second. That is 2733 - 2800 fps. So I think 840 m/s is about right. The only mentioning of B.C. for any FMJ 147 grain 30 calibre bullet was .404 mentioned in Mike Lau's books." From Sniper Country.

    And:
    "RG Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, Cheshire, UNITED KINGDOM. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. Production of the .303 cartridge commenced in 1940 and the last known production of this cartridge was in 1973 with Mk 7Z Ball and Dummy Drill cartridges. Initial Radway Green production used a single arrow as the headstamp code and this was replaced in 1942 by the RG code."
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  • richbug
    The RG is as good as the Port, or SA, but not quite as good as the
    Aussie, but still very good if you can find it for a decent price. The Malay, is fair at best. I would put it on Par with the Indian stuff which is fair at best, I have seen Rims ripped off in FAL rifles with healthy Gas systems.

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