Re: Army ditching 308 win?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sinister</div><div class="ubbcode-body">PR&C would have been for an M1A purchase. You could have got M14s free from the depot at Anniston -- then again you would have had to pay someone to tune, re-barrel, or put on rails, mounts, and scopes.
A formal Army request and Military Interagency Procurement Request (MIPR) is a transfer of money for service or equipment -- no favors there, it's business.
M118LR quality has gone into the shitter and availability has been spotty -- one of the reasons SOCOM specified its own M118 LR equivalent (Mark 316) so we can both actually get ammo delivered with quality assurance without wading through Army bureaucracy.
I have shot dozens of different commercial SOCOM-purchase match and special purpose ammo (Lapua, RUAG, Remington, Winchester, Black Hills, etc.) for different applications (we can specify exactly what we want in our loads). It is much easier for SOCOM than using Ammunition Procurement, Army (APA) money specifically assigned by Congress (by law) and controlled by the G3 to buy ammo. </div></div>
Aha!!
Thanks, you have cleared up some questions I had. The PR&C was probably for the Sage EBR stocks we purchased and I believed I was confused as we did get our M1A's from the depot if memory serves me correctly and it did cost use since we needed them refurbished to meet operating standards.
This is actualy the first I heard about the ammunition procurement deal. Do you have a POC for this and the request or this this Socom specific? If not I would love this documentation!!
Thanks for the information it is very helpful!!!!