scoobysnacker
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So, recently I stumbled upon a batch of "trade in" 45acp, described as unused and unopened boxes sent back from the dept. It was $17.99 a box/50, for either Speer Lawman TMJ or American Eagle FMJ. I ordered 8 boxes of both, which came to $321 shipped and tax. Or, $20 a box total.
It came in today, I am satisfied by the description of being unopened. Boxes were clean without wrinkles on the sides, and hard to open.
So, wondering about date of manufacture. I'm fine with the AE, as those boxes have, among other things, a date (2019) on the FCC registered trademark info.
The Speer, I'm not quite as sure about. I did note the lot #, which was E04C202.
Looking it up, it appears Speer has a cyclic date code, first letter (E) being month (May, in this case), numbers (04) being the day, and second letter (C) being the year. C is 1972, then 1997, then... 2021?
I get that from this site
SPEER Manufacture Dates - General Ammunition Discussion - International Ammunition Association Web Forum
So, I'm getting May 04, 2021 from that. Sound right to y'all?
The boxes aren't old, they list Speer's www address, so I think that rules out the past cycles.
It came in today, I am satisfied by the description of being unopened. Boxes were clean without wrinkles on the sides, and hard to open.
So, wondering about date of manufacture. I'm fine with the AE, as those boxes have, among other things, a date (2019) on the FCC registered trademark info.
The Speer, I'm not quite as sure about. I did note the lot #, which was E04C202.
Looking it up, it appears Speer has a cyclic date code, first letter (E) being month (May, in this case), numbers (04) being the day, and second letter (C) being the year. C is 1972, then 1997, then... 2021?
I get that from this site
SPEER Manufacture Dates - General Ammunition Discussion - International Ammunition Association Web Forum
So, I'm getting May 04, 2021 from that. Sound right to y'all?
The boxes aren't old, they list Speer's www address, so I think that rules out the past cycles.