{"id":1818,"date":"2012-01-25T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2012-01-25T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:52:24","slug":"plastic-cased-ammunition-from-pcp-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/plastic-cased-ammunition-from-pcp-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Cased Ammunition from PCP Ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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httpv:\/\/youtu.be\/GQljEg6-ZvA<\/p>\n
This is the PCP company video and as you can see, they are shooting it in full-auto machineguns with no sticking and no cooking off rounds. We hope it works out for them and wish them the best.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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PCP Ammunition is the polymer cased ammo company that seems to be actually coming to market. We have all seen a lot of ideas come and go, but they have a product that appears to have worked the bugs out of the plastic disposable rifle ammo case. It saves 30-50% of the weight, and could potentially improve performance and accuracy. <\/p><\/div>

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Ben Becker, our resident US Army Sniper, was able to test the .308 Winchester ammo at Media Day at the Range, SHOT Show 2012. It worked great in this suppressed rifle. <\/p><\/div>

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It is really difficult, however, to judge a revolutionary product like this based on a half a dozen rounds at a public media event. <\/p><\/div>

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The test ammo for Media Day had no headstamps and was clearly an evaluation product made by hand. The people running and representing PCP were real gun guys though, not a bunch of smoke and mirrors marketing types, so the product is worth reporting on and it could be something we see in the market this year. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

By Paul Helinski<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pcpammo.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes when you try a new product you are left with more questions than answers, and that is what it was like at SHOT Show Media Day at the Range 2012 when we bumped into PCP Ammunition, the plastic cased ammo people.\u00a0 It seemed to shoot good, but plastic ammo is too good to be true, right?<\/p>\n

Set up with a .300 Winchester Magnum \u00a0and a suppressed .308 Winchester, PCP Ammo didn’t seem to have a lot of stock with them to shoot, and they wouldn’t let us keep a fired case, but the stuff seemed to work, and it worked well.\u00a0 Some of the questions people had were:<\/p>\n