Thread: PMC Ammunition

Originally Posted by timattalon

Privi Partisan, Partisan, Highland and I think PMC (Partisan Manufacturic Co?) were all tthe same factory or factory group so similarites are to be expected. Pretty decent brass. I had some in 6.5x55 from my fathers estate. Circa early 90s

Pan metal corporation.....originally.

A trip down memory lane. I wonder what happened to them?
Edit, just checked and see it's still available. Must be a long time since I bought factory ammo.
Yep it works. Just not inspiringly so.

Originally Posted by -BW-

Poongsan metal corporation, korea.

I have only used PMC with .30-30 and I was unimpressed with 2 failures to fire in each box of 20, across 3 boxes. It may have been an anomaly in that batch but that's just my experience. I have never bought it since.

We struck that too in early batches..orange box, not the later red ones shown or later still black n silver boxes. Boxes I have here have it made in Korea,but marketed from USA.

These were found stashed away in the storage of an organization that now mostly use non-toxic shot. Not sure how old they'd be. Pre internet I'd say as no website printed on the box

Would it still work be old fashioned and all

Used hundreds of rounds in both 223 and 308 when culling. Some of it came in 1000 round plain cardboard cartons. Worked as well as anything else on the market. Reasonable brass for reloading.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

These were found stashed away in the storage of an organization that now mostly use non-toxic shot. Not sure how old they'd be. Pre internet I'd say as no website printed on the box

Orange box was late 80s. Those look early 90s vintage.

Originally Posted by woods223

Used hundreds of rounds in both 223 and 308 when culling. Some of it came in 1000 round plain cardboard cartons. Worked as well as anything else on the market. Reasonable brass for reloading.

We bought the 2k boxes from Hunting and Fishing. 64gr PMC. My son has killed 00's of deer with it. My mate is still using it for culling. We have transitioned to 65gr GMK. Lovely brass for reloading.

You can still buy a couple of centerfire calibres. 308, 223 and a couple of pistol jobbies.
Back in the day we bought it for our rifles and the zapper 22 stuff seemed to go just as good as powerpoint and shot pretty much to same point of aim

I've got a box of 243 100 grainers from the same vintage. Seemed quite a hard projectile and not full charge like the Federal powershok I've been using. Shot a few goats and one fallow. Did the job.

Definitely still around in .44magnum. a 180 GRN load at reasonably hot speed too.

PMC is made in Korea. (Privi Partisen - once sold as Highland in Nz and South Africa - is made in Serbia) and I use PMC brass for reloading my .223 and find it excellent. I havn't seen it in other cartridges for a long while.

If you are shooting the factory PMC load - its slow. I chronographed the 55 grain .223 at 2770 fps. Says at 3200fps on the box

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

PMC is made in Korea. (Privi Partisen - once sold as Highland in Nz and South Africa - is made in Serbia) and I use PMC brass for reloading my .223 and find it excellent. I havn't seen it in other cartridges for a long while.

If you are shooting the factory PMC load - its slow. I chronographed the 55 grain .223 at 2770 fps. Says at 3200fps on the box

@TeRei , @-BW- , Cheers. I stand corrected. I think there was one more brand name used by the Serbia/ Czech factories back then. I knew that PMP was South African. The PMC 22LR stuff was quite common at that point too-

I did not start shooting until the early 90s so never came into contact with the really early stuff, but it all shot well enough. For a while it was the only brand we could find locally (to us) for our 6.5x55 as that calibre was not that popular then.