LOL 
I have to totally agree. I also have lots of ammo that I reloaded decades ago and they all seem to perform as well as when I first reloaded them. Fast powders, slow powders, domestic primers, foreign primers, they all go bang.
The only thing to be careful about is how you store the primers and powder as that make them degrade.
Another thing people said was that primers are deactivated by oil. I once soaked some in penetrating oil for several weeks and then loaded them under slow burning powder and they didn’t have any issues igniting the powder.
Already built-in. It has a rotating attack bezel. Just shove the head of the light in your nostril and spin the bezel! :nerd_face:
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As far as I know Black Talons became Ranger SXT’s. Do you have a cite on them being relabeled as red talons? Maybe also a link to any ammo named red talon?
Lots of military small arms rounds are made by Lake City, etc but the major commercial makers (example Winchester) also made rounds for the military. Other than using FMJ, loaded to higher pressures, crimped primers, etc I fail to see what the difference is between ‘real military’ and commercial ammo. And I would have to see lots of published research as well as personal experience with my own reloads and powder still in containers to ever believe that gun powder will turn to gel over a decade.
I completely agree with what these two have said. Military, factory, my reloads… they all still go boom.
In fact I have some factory & reloads well over 50 years old that you would not want to stand in front of betting the powder had turned to gel. If you did…… more than your day would be ruined. 
Just a few days ago I took some .30-06 handloads to the range that I loaded in 1982. I ran them over the Chrony and found them to be exactly as they were 35 years ago. Velocity and accuracy were unchanged. They’ve been stored at room temperature, (in a surplus military ammo box) in a naturally dry climate. The brass is no longer bright, but neither is it corroded or green.
Powder was IMR4350 and primers were CCI Large Rifle Benchrest. I’m glad, because I really didn’t want to pull 100+ Nosler Partitions.
I have seen some long-open canisters of powder deteriorate, and they develop a reddish dusty coating on the grains and lose that sharp ‘nitro’ smell. That’s when you sprinkle it in the flower bed; it makes great fertilizer.
Anyway - back to the silly over rated flashlights! We’re way off topic here.
That reminds me of the time that I once pulled several hundred .357 rounds using a kinetic bullet puller because I decided the 1970 era reloading manuals were a tad optimistic. Pulling lots of bullets is definitely no fun at all.
Good grief, this X700 crap keeps spreading.
http://www.morefinancialtips.com/military-tactical-flashlight/
where it’s called a “LightStrike 360”
Would you take financial advice from those people!
In the fine tiny print, gray font on black, below the scroll on the page, it says
Yeah, they have to keep changing the name because the YouTube reviews have burned the old names.
It’s hard to blame the buyers of these flashlights. Without access to good reviews, I, myself, would never have known what the good stuff is. I don’t think I would have bought this stuff, though. I probably would have ended up at a local big box store.
:person_facepalming: Simply amazing………… what a rip off.
With the initially noted 75% Discount you then get an additional 20% Discount when you click on the green bar that says… “Yes! I want 75% Off”
Then you are “blessed” with the opportunity to buy a single for $35.
Buy multiples and the price per unit drops. :person_facepalming:
every day i post warnings on ads on Facebook and newssites....
Want to see how these scammers find customers?
Google for their advertising text and notice the forums they choose to advertise in. They’re trolling for the credulous readership.
https://www.google.com/search?q="controversial+military+flashlight+now+available+to+the+public"
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Actually when the black talons were taken off they were rereleased as red talons. And no one said anything about them again. But at any rate you shouldn’t keep civilian ammunition for more the 7-10 years. Real military produced ammunition yes. The bullet makers have to put some kind of additive that makes the gunpowder pretty much turn to gel over a decade. So civilians can’t stock pile massive amounts of ammunition against the govt. Some rounds may still fire after that long but will be very weak.
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ok, i was ready to tactfully toss the bullcrap flag on that play… but the other officials are already on it… cool…
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like others, i have ammo i loaded myself about 20 years ago… nothing wrong with it…
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you probably believe that “round nose ammo BUCKS THE BRUSH better than pointed ammo” LMAO, thats another persistent BS story.
You crack me up ‘sedstar’ the way you said that. 
I love it, as well as totally agree with every word you said!!! :+1:
It has always made me wonder where some of these type “BS Stories” actually come from/get started.
The ripoff now appears at the top of the Search results page for BLF.
Don’t click that unless you want to encourage them.
“designed in the USA” indeed. Yeah, the ads were, probably, designed in the USA.
A wateproof zoomie. Yeah, right.
Well back to the gun stories they arnt all bs. Here is a article where a green beret was court martialed by chapter 13 for using a insufficient caliber to shoot his home intruder. Grabbed a .22 revolver the ammo was old been around for several years. Bullet bounced right off his head.
Found guilty by the special forces command but sentence suspended due to him be 79 years old.
He says he has bought a new box of ammo since said the guy has the hardest head he’s ever seen
green beret shoots intruder gets court martial - Google Search…
Now for my experience. In my experience round or pointed makes no difference in the brush. Shot both. (In combat you shoot what you have) there was times I had to strip bodies for ak47s and bullets and strip my m4 down to basically scrap metal so enemy could never use it) what always amazed me is I could put 2-3 5.56 rounds into someone and they just refuse to die at times
Now while I was in the Marines they told us our ammunition would last 20-30+ years in storage with minor effects on effectiveness. But that civilian ammo won’t last much more then a decade. I’ve had a box of old 38 shells that was 15 years old and I couldn’t get them to fire. May have been older.
To each there own opinion on the matter. But as far as I know the militaries ammo is produced with a different powder formularjkn then the civilian ones
My experiences don’t agree with yours regarding civilian ammo not lasting more than a decade. I’m still shooting Winchester/Federal/etc ammo from the 1970’s without any issues and my reloads from that time period go off just fine. Rounds that don’t go off are usually due to bad primers or light/bad primer strikes and nothing to do with the powder. You do know that some powders like WC844 powder are used in both military and non-military ammo?
How are you storing your rounds? High temperatures and bad storage can greatly affect primers and powders.
Slippery slope warning …
In other words
Welcome to where you can always find
“It’s always time to upgrade …
why not buy both? …
hmmm, that could be improved on ….”
Nail your wallet to your workbench and realize anything you get will soon be outdated.
“Nothing gets old faster than computers but fresh fruit.” — Whole Earth Software Catalog, IBM-PC-era.
Today’s flashlights are computers, firmware-programmable.
So figure you’ll be replacing the innards of whatever you get, to improve it.
You feeling OK hank? 
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My experience pretty much mirror’s yours SIGshooter. I have rounds loaded more than 40 years ago with H 335, IMR 4320, & IMR 4895 …. all primed with either CCI Large Rifle Magnum or CCI Large Rifle Benchrest (35 Remington & 270 Winchester) that still shoot just fine & chrono about the same as the day I loaded them.
44 Mag, 38 Special, 357 Mag pistol rounds too. They are about 30 years old…. both factory & reloads. No problem going bang.
Not to mention some “”surplus”” 45 ACP & 5.56 NATO from the 70’s.
Maybe I have just been lucky…… but it was loaded right & has been stored right.
As far as military using different powder?? I don’t know about now, but back in the day it was the same.
In fact H 335 was developed for the military for use in 5.56. They used it in 308 also. And H 335 was readily available to the civilian market also in that time.
Wait I thought I got this awesome deal I bought 2 sets of 10 for 700 dollars to save as an investment. 
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