SSA6.8SPC 115 gr OTM Tactical Load, 800 Round, M2A1 Box - Great Stocking Stuffer! - Home of the 6.8 SPC

modernarms · 11-30-2009, 05:56 AM

Just became available, 54 M2A1 Boxes of SSA 6.8 SPC 115 grain OTM Tactical Load, 800 Round/ M2A1 Box. Makes a great "Stocking-Up Stuffer"
Normally priced at $785 each, 54 M2A1 boxes available for $696 each while they last.
http://www.ssarmory.com/6.8_spc_115OTM_M2A1.aspx

M16MANIAC · 11-30-2009, 06:15 AM

Great deal
Damn, now I just need $700.

modernarms · 11-30-2009, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by M16MANIAC

Great deal
Damn, now I just need $700.

$700.00 and a big stocking to fit it all in:

M16MANIAC · 11-30-2009, 07:21 AM

I will have to tell my wife to go ahead and get my stocking stuffed.

Equalizer_2 · 11-30-2009, 08:22 AM

That works out to $17.40 per box plus shippng if you don't live in WA. Really a good price and the can is worth something in how it is marked. Or $87 a hundred and empty brass is $42 a hundred so for about $2 a box SSA has loaded Tactical loads with SMKs for you.

I just put windows into my house so I am tapped out for the next two or three years as a minimum but a very good buy.

I hope this is is the result of the .mil needing less ammo and not a decision to get rid of it all together.

biglucky · 11-30-2009, 08:37 AM

All I can hope is that they are still available in 2 weeks.. not gonna hold my breath though.. come on Payday......

stanc · 11-30-2009, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Equalizer_2

I hope this is is the result of the .mil needing less ammo and not a decision to get rid of it all together.

That might be a forlorn hope, if it is truly military surplus. If the military bought it, took it into the inventory, but later sold it back to SSA, it may well be because there is no longer a .mil requirement for the caliber.

OTOH, calling it "military surplus" might be just advertising -- a marketing ploy to sell off an overrun of ammunition manufactured in expectation of .mil contracts that never materialized.

kalwasart · 11-30-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by stanc

That might be a forlorn hope, if it is truly military surplus. If the military bought it, took it into the inventory, but later sold it back to SSA, it may well be because there is no longer a .mil requirement for the caliber.

OTOH, calling it "military surplus" might be just advertising -- a marketing ploy to sell off an overrun of ammunition manufactured in expectation of .mil contracts that never materialized.

How we got it is too convoluted to explain so everyone put your crystal balls down and do not read anything into it. Just know this we can not re-sell it as Military new, it's not of current years production (within the last 12 months) so if you can shoot Tac loads in 115 Sierra take advantage of it.

In addition we did not add a metal box and wirebound crate that increases our cost just to but it on sale when we our out of stock of the 115 grain OTM's and can sell everyone we have or had at the regular price.

Art - SSA

marinesg1012 · 11-30-2009, 08:00 PM

Thanks Art I appreciate it and picked up two cans... are you saying it wont come in the cool wooden crate?

stanc · 11-30-2009, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kalwasart

How we got it is too convoluted to explain...

That's too bad, Art. I'm sure it'd be an interesting story.

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In addition we did not add a metal box and wirebound crate that increases our cost just to but it on sale...

Yeah, that thought occurred to me. Forgive me if I surmised incorrectly. It was because the nomenclature and lettering style on the cans are different in almost every respect from standard military labeling that made me think it might be a marketing tactic.