I think Winchester smells the best...

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Warm Bore

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Took my BHP out back yesterday for some light shooting. Had several different ammos. Blazer, Speer, Winchester, Wolf and PMC (local shop had a sale). So I thought why not run a few mags of each ammo through her and see what happens. Well I fired my old standby first - Blazer. I have used Blazer for years and it has never failed to be both accurate and reliable. Tonight was no exception. Loaded up the Speer - and although the Speer ammo is pretty and shiny my BHP doesn't like it. I had FTF's on every other round at least. Racking the slide cleared the jam and loaded the round. But this ammo will not go in this gun in the future (it chokes). Next I ran a few mags of Wolf steel cased. Worked great with 1 FTF. Not particularly accurate but would make a good plinking round. But PEE-YEEW. This stuff smells truly putrid. PMC was next. Fired them off without incident. Pretty accurate too. More flash then the rest. My last few mags were loaded with Winchester. The BHP digested them with ease and belched out that wonderful sweet aroma of burning powder. In conclusion... I think Winchester smells the best. :)

Regards,

Warm Bore
 
You know, that's damned odd that you would say that...

I've often thought the same thing.

When I was shooting trap & skeet heavily, I would reload my own with Red Dot, which smelled OK, but occasionally I would get a box or two of Winchester AAs to fire off and get the hulls. I always thought that powder smelled a LOT better than any of the other shells that I used.

The old Remington-Peters black hull shells smelled absolutely terrible.

RAE,

I've always found Remington Thunderbolts to be about as useful as dog farts, too.

Worst damned .22 ammo there is, in my opinion.
 
I was firing my Mini-14 rapid fire with S&B steel case ammo and was confronted with a truly eye stinging and ammonia smelling cloud of smoke. I'm sticking with American made ammo from now on.
 
IMR makes some delicious powders, and there are some (W571, V3N37, Bullseye) from others that also sweeten my world.
 
Ohh..people with puny little girly man guns sniffing baby powder..

The best smell of all is cracking open a fresh powder can of Green Bag 155mm Howitzer ammunition. Talk about a sweet aroma! Take if from an old artillery guy, that..and the smell of a fired 155mm round on a foggy day can't be beat!:D


Good Shooting
RED
 
Sorry, guys, the closest I ever got to an artillery unit was a very short time with a reenactor's group.

I meant the above as the "Good Morning Vietnam" type joke. I didn't think about it conveying the impression that I was in the military.

Sorry!
 
Russian ammo sure does have its own peculiar smell, Eau de Old Bolshevic.

Now for something that smells as pretty as Hoppe's #9 you need to shoot black powder.
 
Wait a minute, we have a guy on a gun board claiming to have not been in the millitary? He must be some sort of SEAL or Delta force member trying to get info on us :D
 
Duck,

Nope, the Navy took one look at the report on my back after I injured it and said "You've GOT to be joking... This is the 1980s! We only take the fittest specimines, and you don't qualify!"
 
Blackpowder smells like rotten eggs. I like the smell of the federal shotgun shells best. And one of my favorite sounds is an empty hull hitting concrete...
 
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