![]() ![]() That's how the supply of their ammunition came to arrive at my shop before I'd even had a chance to try the pre-NovX cases. So, how does this new "brass" come to be NovX ammunition? Scott Shultz of NovX took a look, and made an offer on worldwide use of the NAS 3 casings. You'll probably find that you need less time in the cleaning step. From looking at the ones I fired, the stainless steel and aluminum used actually hold less smut than the usual amount picked up by brass cases. They can be cleaned by all the usual methods: vibratory cleaners, tumblers, and ultrasonics. Magnets made range cleanup a breeze.įor reloading these cases are, well, mostly normal in that regard. NovX cases are constructed of a stainless steel body and an aluminum rim/primer pocket. My point is that won't happen if you choose to reload the empties saved after shooting NovX ammunition. I found that after three firings, the primers started falling out of the cases. I bought enough to fill my pickup truck bed and once fired, I started reloading the empties, mostly because I was set up to load in volume. A brand of Chinese 9mm was brought into the country, and it was cheap - dirt cheap. How about longevity? I ran into an instance of short-lived brass more than a couple of decades ago. The stainless steel makes the case strong enough for loading, and the aluminum will securely hold the primer and withstand extraction. The case rim and head is made of 7078 heat-treated aluminum, and the combo makes for a very lightweight casing. That, and they keep the bullet in place while the round is stripped from a magazine, shoved up the feed ramp and chambered. The case walls are composed of a nickel-alloy stainless steel for springiness and neck tension that's needed to hold a bullet long enough for efficient combustion. Let's discuss what the casings are all about because they are different than the norm. It obviously featured the 65-grain Inceptor ARX and round-nose projectiles (RNP) made of a proprietary polymer-copper blend, and they were loaded in SST cases. Days later, a carton of loaded ammo arrived.Fast-forward several weeks and G&A's editor sent me a few boxes of NovX ammunition. The cases were from Shell Shock Technologies (SST), named NAS 3, a hybrid mix of stainless steel and aluminum. A short while back I received a box of new cases except they weren't made of brass. Today, just trying to keep up can become exhausting.Ĭonsider NovX ammunition. Of course, being born a few decades before Columbus sailed helped him there, as the pace of "new" was not what it later became. The philosopher Erasmus was considered by some to have been the last man who could have, and did, know everything that could be known. ![]()
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