Remington Kleenbore standard velocity

[Recycled bullet]

[Texas by God]

Nice!
Shoot em!


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[ascast]

I've shot 1,000's of those.

What Does the U stand for?

[curiousgeorge]

UMC - Union Metalic Cartridge (if I remember correctly)

[ascast]

Your right, I was just testing, like Winchester all have a "H" headstamp - for Henry. gun trivia...

[jdsingleshot]

If you shoot them, preserve the smoke and sell me a bottle--sweetest cologne ever concocted!

[barrabruce]

Being "old std velocity " are they around 1150fps
Or closer to modern std velocity of 1070 fps
Some how I think when I was younger std velocity rounds seemed to zip and crack every now and again.

Or were those Remingtons subsonic?

[Gewehr-Guy]

The close up photo of the bullet doesn't right too me, is the lubricant degrading and flaking off, or some kind of lead oxidation?

[Recycled bullet]

Yes gewehr guy that is a question that I was thinking but did not write. Unfortunately I'm not willing to chew on them and see if it tastes like wax or if it tastes like lead oxidation...

[pete501]

I had some Remington Kleanbore in the older Dog-Bone boxes with the same oxidation on the lead. So much that the bullets would not chamber.

[303Guy]

I have an idea that those are the ones I grew up with. But somehow I seem to remember high velocity? I remember my brother surprising me when he told me that the 22 had a higher velocity than the 12 bore. As young kid I just assumed that a bigger gun had higher velocity. But anyway, whatever they were, they were kleenbore.

I see there is some Remington Hi-Speed Kleanbore vintage ammo for sale on E-bay. My father had a brick of one thousand. Yellow and green box I seem to remember? That was a long time ago! Once I finished school and got my own 22, I finished off that box. It was getting low by then anyway, maybe a quarter box left. I remember at one stage when the box got past half full, I discovered that the second half were hollow nose.

Anyway, there might be some collector value to those and in that condition, they may not be worth firing so why not look into putting them on E-bay?

[murf205]

I had some Remington Kleanbore in the older Dog-Bone boxes with the same oxidation on the lead. So much that the bullets would not chamber.

The old Dog Bone stuff and Rockets bring back a lot of memories for a lot of us.

[dtknowles]

Yeah,

Tim

[beltfed]

Yup,
Those Rem Std Vel LR boxes remind me of high school rifle club in late 1950s,
where we got that ammo from the DCM for $4.00/carton.
They shot pretty good in the Rem 513s
beltfed/arnie

[Hogtamer]

Looks like “tackle box” ammo! Always kept a few rounds in there for hard-headed snakes and such.